62 33. Trasus. 9. CYPERACE^. Pl.end.ph, 



edge white, scariose; rib yellow, ending below the tip; 

 female spikes 3, distant, oblong, acute, glume ovate, lan- 

 ceolate, acute, nearly as Ions as the fruit, keeled, rib yel- 

 lowish, ending below the tip ; edge white, scariose ; fndt 

 yellowish green, 3-sided, slightly striated, angles very 

 smooth, beaks linear, slightly bent, apex 2-toothed, acute. 



Communicated by Mr. G. Don, as found on the Moun- 

 tain Clova, Angus-shire, in Scotland. 



16. Trasus fulvus, Tawney sedge. 

 Female spikes ovate, oblong, distant ; hractecE upright ; 



sheath half the length of the footstalk ; Ugula very short 

 or ; glumes ovate, blunt, larger than the fruit ; fruit el- 

 liptical, beak upright, 2-toothed; culm serrulate. 



Carex trif>ona, ^Uioni Pedem. 232, 5. 

 Carex flava 2, Withering Bot. An: 134. 

 Carex fulva, Goodenough L. T. 2, 177. 



Bogs ; perennial ; June, July. 



Root creeping; culm upright, afoot high, 3-sided, angles 

 rough ; leaves upright, slender, dark green, shorter than 

 the culm ; hractecB upright, not overtopping the culm j 

 sheath long, apex brownish ; ligula extremely short ; 7nale 

 spike linear, slender, upright; gkime obtuse, brov/n, rib 

 brownish, very faint ; female spikes 2 or 2, upright ; glume 

 ovate, rib pale, ending below the tip ; fruit green, longer 

 than the glumes, upright, spreading, faintly ribbed, angles 

 smooth, beak linear, 2-toothed. 



17. Trasus dista?is. Distant sedge » 

 Female spikes 3, ovate, very distant ; IractecB upright ; 



sheaths half the length of the footstalk; ligula opposite 

 to the leaf, short, blunt; glumes ovate, pointed, nearly as 

 long as the fruit; fruit acutely pointed, bicuspidate, acute- 

 angled. 



Grainen cyperoides spicis parvis longissime distant! bus, Rail Syn, 420, 

 polyst. 16. 



Carex distans, Lin. S. P. 1387. 



Bogs by the sea-side; perennial; June. 



Culm smooth, 2 feet high, upright, bluntangled, weak ; 

 leaves broadish, short, flat, light green, sheath long ; ligula 

 opposite to the leaves, short, blunt, white; male spike thick, 

 lanceolate, obtuse; glume ferruginous, pointed, rib broad; 

 glumes of the female spike broad, ovate, pointed; ribs three, 

 closing at the apex ; fruit longer than the glumes, brown, 

 nearly 3-sitled, many ribbed, edges raised, smooth, 2-cut, 

 beaks short, diverging. 



