80 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



peat bog. Lightf. Near Glasgow. Huds. On wet moors in the 

 Highlands. Dicks. On Ben Lomond. Rev. Dr. Walker. Ben 

 Nevis. Dr. Hooker and Mr. Borrer. To the north of Blair, 

 Mr. Winch ; who found it also, for the first time in England, in 

 a peat moss near the south-west end of Crag lake, Northum- 

 berland. 



Perennial. June. 



Root creeping, scaly, with long fibres. Herbage smooth. Stems 

 from 3 to 5 inches high, ascending, or erect, triangular, fur- 

 rowed. Leaves 2 or 3, sheathing the base of the stem, narrow ; 

 channelled above. Catkin with one, rarely 2, terminal barren 

 Jlorets ; and 2 or 3 fertile ones, reflexed as the seed ripens. 

 Stam. 3. Stigm. 3. Fruit of a pale rusty yellow, awl-shaped, 

 pointed, striated, rather longer than the scales of the catkin, 

 which are usually broken off by its reflexed position, as in the 

 last species. 



** Catkins or spikelets, aggregate, each composed of barren 

 and fertile jlorets. Stigmas txw. 



5. C. stellulata. Little Prickly Carex. 



Spikelets three or four, roundish, slightly distant. Barren 

 florets inferior. Fruit spreading, with a tapering undi- 

 vided beak. 



C. stellulata. Gooden. Tr. of L. Sac v. 2. 144. Fl. Br. 9G6. Engl. 



Bat. V. 12. t. 806. Hook. Scot. 263. Forst. Tonbr. 103. Willd. 



Sp. PL V. 4.236. Schk. Car. 45. t. C.f. 14. Wahlenb. Lapp. 



23 1 ; excluding the reference to Schreber. 

 C. muricata. Huds. 406. Lightf. .549. Leers 196. t. 14./. 8. FL 



Dan. t. 284. 

 C. echinata. Sibth. 28. Ehrh. Calam. 68. 

 C. n. 1366. HalLHist. v. 2. 187. 

 C. minor, radice fibrosa, foliis angustioribus, caule exquisite tri- 



angulari, spica sesquiunciali mutilate. Mich. Gen. 68. t. 33. 



/. 9. 

 Gramen cyperoides spicatum minimum, spica divulsa aculeata. 



Raii Syn. 424. Scheuchz. Agr. 485. t. 1 I ./. 3. 

 G. nemorosum, spicis parvis asperis. Bauh. Pin. 7. Moris, v. 3. 



244. sect 8. t. 12. f. 26. 

 G. sylvaticum parvum tenuifolium, cum spica aculeata. Bauh. 



Hist.v. 2.509./. 510. 



In boggy meadows, especially on a barren soil, common. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root tufted, rather woody, with many strong fibres. Herbage of a 

 grass green. Stem 6-12 inches high, triangular, its edges 

 roughish. Leaves flat, sheathing the base of the stem ; tapering 

 and rough at the point. Spike erect, of 3 or 4 alternate, roundish 

 spikelets, sometimes with a small bractea under the lowermost. 



