PLend.pfu 9, CYPERACEtE. 33, Trasus, Gl 



Carex extensa^ fVithering? 



Carex Oederi, Hoffm. Oerm. 214. 



Carex flava jS, De Candolle Syn. Fl. Gall. 1745. 



Carex flava y, TVilld. Sp. PI. 4, 268. 



Moist sandy meadows ; perennial ; all the year. 



Root fibrous, creeping, throwing up new culms all the 

 year; culm 12 in. high, lying down; leaves slender, acute, 

 Iractece as long as the spike, at length reflexed ; mule spike 

 slender ; female spike ovate, conical, acute, crowded, the 

 lower ones distant; fruit expanding, apex bluntish* 



f. BractecB leafike, sheathing ; spikes footstalked, the 

 upper enclosed^ the lower exserted^ male 1 ; fruit smooth. 



14. Trasus extensus. Long sedge. 

 Female spikes 3, elliptical, roundish, rather close, bracteae 



very long ; sheath and foots talks very short ; fruit elliptical, 

 ribbed, apex 2-toothed; glumes ovate, pointed, smaller 

 than the fruit ; culm smooth ; leaves slender. 



Gramen cyperoldes q. Cyperoides echinatum majus Petiver, Raii Stfri. 

 421, polyst. 18.* 



Carex extensa, Goodenoiigh, Lt T. 2, 175. 



JSea-side; perennial; June. 



Root fibrous; culm upright, 12 in. high, bluntly 3-sided; 

 leaves recurved, slender, grooved ; hractece very long, 

 spreading, with very short, dilated sheaths ; 7nale spike 

 single, nearly sessile, lanceolate ;^e7?zaZe spikes 2 or 3, close, 

 upright, ovate; glume ovate, 3-ribbed, pointed, ferruginous, 

 back green J fruit spreading, scarcely beaked, angles 

 smooth. 



/S. cylindfaceus. Spike long, cylindrical. 



15. Trasus Hosfianus. Host's sedge^ 

 Female spikes 3, oblong, distant ; hractece leaflike, long ; 



ligula opposite to the leaves, long, acute ; sheaths half the 

 length of the footstalk ; fruit 3-sided, beaked, beak 2-toothedj 

 teeth acute \ culm smooth, roundish ; glumes obtuse. 



Carex fulva^ Host &ram. Austi\ 77. 

 Carex Hostiana. He Cand. Hort. Monsp. 



Mountains ; perennial ; June. 



Culm rough and angular below the spikes, upright or 

 bent, 2 feet high ; radical leaves keeled, light green, edge 

 rough ; hractece not overtopping the culm, sheath ending 

 in a membranous ligula ; male spikes 1 or 2, slender, sessile^ 

 upright, cylindrical ; glume rather blunt, chesnut brown i 



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