86 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



Hook. Scot. 261 . Schk.Car. 14. t. B. f. 6. D, d./. 6. Dicks. H. 

 Sicc.fasc. 5, 14. Don. H. Br. 195. Ehrh. Phytoph. 17. PI Off. 

 389. 



C. repens. Bellard. Mem. de VAcad. de Turin, v. 5. 248 ; from the 

 author. 



C. maritima humilis, radice repente, caule trilatero, spica spadicea, 

 nonnihil foliosa, capitulis crassioribus, capsulis marginatis. 

 Mich. Gen. 67. t. 33./. 4. 



Gramini cyperoidi ex monte Ballon simile humiliuSj in maritimis 

 et arenosis nascens. Rati Syn. 423. Pluk.Almag. 178. Phyt. 

 t. 34. f. 8. 



Gramen cyperoides minus repens^ spica divisa. Lees. Pruss, 116. 

 ^31. 



On the sandy sea shore in abundance. 



Perennial. June. 



Root very long and cord-like, spreading in the loose sand to a great 

 extent, branching at the extremity, and sending out from the 

 knots many shaggy fibres. Hence it powerfully binds the sand 

 together, forming banks which resist the force of the ocean. 

 Stems terminal, solitary, about a foot high, erect, except in a 

 driving sand, triangular J rough-edged in the upper part; leafy 

 below. Leaves several, flat, rough-edged, taper-pointed, about 

 as tall as the stem. Spike erect, IJ or 2 inches long, of many, 

 more or less crowded, roundish-ovate, brown spikelets; the upper 

 ones consisting almost entirely of barrenjlorets, with 3 stamens; 

 lower principally oi fertile ones, with 2 sessile stigmas, the latter 

 being always inferior. Scales lanceolate, acute. Fruit ovate, 

 ribbed, flattened, bordered in its upper half with a dilated rough- 

 edged membrane, and terminating in a cloven beak. There is 

 always a bristle-pointed leafy bractea, under one, or more, of the 

 lower spikelets. 



Haller's n. 1362, or his 1363, has been occasionally taken for 

 C. arenaria, but the son of that distinguished writer assured 

 Mr. Davall that this, truly maritime, species had never been 

 found in Switzerland. 



14. C. intermedia. Soft Brown Carex. 



Spikelets numerous, crowded into an oblong dense spike ; 



the lowermost and terminal ones fertile ; intermediate 



ones barren. Stem upright, triangular. 

 C. intermedia. Gooden. Tr. of L. Soc. u. 2. 1 54. Fl. Br, 972. Engl. 



Bot. V. 29. t. 2042. Willd. Sp. PL v. 4. 224. Hook. Scot. 262. 



Schk.Car.l6.i.B.f.7. Fl.Dan.t.\343. Dicks.H.Sicc.fasc.7. i5. 

 C. disticha. Huds. 403. Ehrh. Calam. 48. 

 C. arenaria. Leers 195. t. 14./. 2. 

 C. n. 1363. Hall. Hist. V. 2. ] 36 ; omitting the references to Pluke- 



net and Lcesel. 



