84 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



Jig. i, k, I, from a starved specimen of C. loliacea. Whjig. h is 

 far more correct. 



10. C. remota. Remote Carex. 



Spikelets several, solitary, simple, remote, nearly sessile. 

 Bracteas very long, overtopping the stem. Fruit ovate, 

 with a slightly cloven beak. 



C. remota. Linn. Sp. PL 13S3. JVilld. v. 4. 239. Fl. Br. 969. 

 Engl.Bot.v.\2.t.832. Hook. Scot. 263. H.Dan.t.370. Leers 

 197. t. 15./. 1. Rel. Rudb. \.f. 27. Schk. Car.A6. t. E.f. 23. 

 Ehrh.Calam.D8. 



C. axillaris, Linn. Sp. PL 1382. Linn. Ms. 



C. n. 1357. HaU. Hist. v. 2. 184. 



C. angustifolia, caule triquelro, capitulis pulchellis, &c. Mich. 

 Gen. 70. n. 2, 3. L33.f. 15, 16. 



Gramen cypeioides angustifolium, spicis parvis sessiiibus in folio- 

 rum alis. Rail Syn. 424. Pluk. Jlmag. 1 78. PhyL t. 34./. 3. 

 Mom. V. 3. 243. seci. 8, t. 12./. 17. 



In moist shady places, by rivulets and ditches. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root tufted, with stout smooth fibres. Herbage pale and slender. 

 Stem about a foot high ; leafy, smooth and roundish below ; 

 triangular and rough-edged in the upper part. Leaves narrow. 

 Spikelets several, ovate, many-flowered, pale, yellowish ; the 

 lower ones solitary, and about 2 inches asunder, each accom- 

 panied by a very long, narrow, leafy bractea , whose bristly point 

 rises above the stem ; the upper ones smaller, crowded toge- 

 ther, destitute of bracteas. Barren Jlorets inferior, with 3 sta- 

 mens. Fertile rather more numerous. Fruit ovate, ribbed, 

 beaked ; evidently, though not deeply, cloven at the extremity, 

 rather longer than the scales. 



11. C. axillaris. Axillary Clustered Carex, 



Spikelets several, remote, sessile ; the lower ones com- 

 pound, with very long bracteas. Fruit ovate ; its beak 

 deeply cloven. 



C. axillaris. Gooden. Tr. of L. Sac. v.2.\5l.t. 19./. 1. H. Br. 

 970. EngL BoL v. 14. L 993. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 239. Schk. 

 Car. 47. L R.f. 62. 



In marshes, and the neighbourhood of wet ditches, on a strong soil. 



Near Putney. Mr. Curtis, At Earsham, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. 

 Found in Switzerland by the late Mr. Davall. 



Perennial. June. 



Nearly akin to the last, but larger, with broader leaves, and smaller 

 bracteas, except the lower one. The bracteated spikelets are 

 generally compound in their lower part. Beak of the fruit more 



