CLASS XXI. ORDER III. ] CAREX. 1151 
In habit and general appearance this is similar to the last species» 
but the stem is more slender, and not so tall, the leaves much nar- 
rower, and channeled towards the base, the spikes are more slender, 
and the barren and fertile ones separated from each other about an 
inch, and the barren spike is usually more regularly cylindrical, and 
longer in proportion to the fertile one. 
Habitat.—Pools and ditches; less common than the preceding. 
About London, and in the Eastern Counties of England; Loch of 
Lindore, Fife, Scotland. 
Perennial; flowering in July. 
3. ZT. mi'nor, Sm. (Fig. 1385.) Dwarf Reed-mace. ‘“ Leaves linear, 
convex beneath ; catkins (spikes) a little distant barren one, leafy, 
fertile, short, turgid, often interrupted; anthers nearly solitary ; 
receptacle naked.” 
English Botany, t, 1435.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 73.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 330.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 247. 
“ Much smaller than the preceding. Stem very slender, about a 
foot or foot and half high. eaves about a line in breadth, chan- 
neled above, convex beneath, as tall as the stem, pale and blunt at 
the point, being rather more tumid that part than the other species. 
They are accompanied by numerous broad sheathing scales, the inner- 
most of which are half as tall as the stems, and have been taken for 
leaves. The barren catkin (spike) often bears a membranous leaf or 
scale at the base, or at the summit. The anthers are short and thick, 
mostly solitary on each filament. Receptacle apparently naked. 
Fertile catkin (spike) short and thick, becoming tumid and oval as it 
_ripens, frequently interrupted about the middle, its upper half is 
sometimes continuous with the barren catkins (spikes). Seed with 
numerous bristles at the base of its stalk.” 
Habitat.—* Found by Mr. Dandridge on Hounslow Heath.’”— 
Dillenius. ; 
Perennial; flowering in July. 
Not having seen British specimens of this plant we have given the 
description in the words of Sir J. E. Smith, who also remarks, “I 
have seen no English specimens of this very distinct species; but the 
older writers could not possibly mistake it, nor would Linneus, had 
he ever examined the plants, have confounded it with the last.” 
GENUS VII. CA’REX.—Liyn. Carex, or Sedge. 
Nat. Ord. Cyprracr’s. Juss. 
Gey. Cuan. Flowers in imbricated cylindrical spikes. Barren 
flowers mostly collected in terminal spikelets, perianth wanting. 
