CLASS XXI. ORDER Iv.] KOBRESIA—LITTORELLA. 1189 
This is a very doubtful native species, not very uncommon on the 
Continent; but we have thought it better to give the above descrip- 
tions from Hooker and Smith, rather than to form one from 
foreign specimens. 
GENUS VIII KOBRE’SIA.—Witip. Jobresia. 
Nat. Ord. Cyprra’crem. Juss. 
Gen. Cuan. Spikelets two flowered, upper ones barren, the lower 
fertile. Scales imbricated, in many rows, single flowerea, oarren 
flowers of three stamens, without perianth, fertile flowers with 
one style and three stigmas, the ovary embraced with two scales. 
Fruit a somewhat three cornered nut, mucronate, and enclosed 
in a membranous pouch. 
1. K. carici'na, Willd. (Fig. 1447.) Compound headed Kobresia. 
Spikelets aggregate, compound. 
English Flora, vol. iv. p. 129.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 284— 
Schenus monoicus.—English Botany, t. 1410.—Hlyna, Schrad.— 
Hooker, British,Flora, ed. 4. v. i. p. 344.—English Flora, v. iv. p. 129. 
Root fibrous, tufted. Stem erect, simple, from four to eight inches 
high, angular, striated, rough on the angles upwards, leafy below, and 
enveloped in numerous old brown sheaths. eaves several, linear, 
channeled, spreading, shorter than the stem, rough on the edges, and 
with long close sheaths at the base, crowned with a membranous 
ligula. Spike terminal, of several aggregate imbricated spikelets, 
with short brown membranous sheathing bractea. Scales oblong, 
acute, pale brown, with a green mid-rib. uit linear, ovate, some- 
what three cornered. 
Habitat—Moors in wet places; in Durham and Crankley Fell, 
and about Weddy Bank, in Teesdale Forest, Yorkshire; on Shroine 
ach-Lochan, Perthshire. 
Perennial; flowering in August. 
This has the habit of the Carexes, but may, without sufficient 
examination, be mistaken from its general appearance for a Schoenus, 
ORDER IV. 
TETRAN’DRIA. 4. STAMENS. 
GENUS IX. LITTOREL'’LA—Linn. Shore-weed. 
Nat. Ord. PuanraGin’Ex. Juss. 
Gen. Cuan. Barren flowers pedicellated. Calyx and corolla four 
partite. Stamens very long. Fertile flowers sessile. Calyw 
