88 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



inches in length, Spikelets less numerous than in the last, irre- 

 gularly clustered, ovate ; the lower ones often subdivided. Fer- 

 tilejlorets most numerous in every spikelet, and below the bar- 

 ren ones. Scales elliptical, strongly keeled and pointed, with a 

 filmy border ; their disk dark brown ; base green. Stam. 3. 

 Stigm. 2, twice the length of the style. Fruit shorter than the 

 scales, ovate, dilated and rough at the edges, cloven at the point. 

 The old authors cited by Ray, may or may not intend this species, 

 nor can they be relied on for any illustration of a plant so nearly 

 resembling several others. 



16, C, muricata. Greater Prickly Carex. 



Spike oblong, dense, prickly with the broad, rough-edged, 

 cloven, spreading beaks of the fruit. Spikelets roundish, 

 mostly simple. Root fibrous. 



C. muricata. Linn. Sp. PI. 1 382, mild. v. 4. 234, Fl. Br. 9/4, 



Engl. Bot. V. 1 6. t. 1097. Hook. Scot. 262. Schk. Car. 20, t. E. 



/. 22 5 not t. D, d. Ehrh. Calam. 97. 

 C. spicata. Huds. 405. Light/. 548. Not of Linnceus. 

 C. n. 1365. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 187 j with confused references. 

 C. palustris media, radice fibrosa, caule eSquisitfetriangulari, spic^ 



brevi compactiori, Mich. Gen. 69. t.33.f. 14. 

 Gramen cyperoides spicatum minus. Kaii Syn. 424. 

 G. sylvaticura tenuifolium rigidiusculum, Moris, v. 3. 244, sect. 8, 



t. 12./. 27. 

 jS. Carex muricata j5. Fl. Br. 975. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 235. 



Gooden. Tr. o/L. Soc. v. 2. 160. 

 C. loliacea ? Schk. Car. 22. t.E,e.f.9\. 

 C. nemorosa, fibrosa radice, angustifolia, minima, caule exquisite 



triangulari, spica brevi in terrupta. Mich. Gen. 69. t. 33./, 12, R. 

 Gramen cyperoides, spicisminoribus,minusquecompactis. Scheuchz. 



Agr.ASS.t. 11./ 5, 



In moist pastures and shady places, especially where the soil is 

 sandy, frequent. 



/3. On dry gravelly ditch banks, near Eaton, Shropshire. Rec. E. 

 Williams. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root tufted, of numerous shaggy fibres, not creeping. Herbage 

 of a bright grass green. Stems erect, 12 or 18 inches high, 

 naked, except at the bottom, triangular, striated ; the angles 

 more or less rough in their upper part. Leaves narrow, acute, 

 rough at the edges and keel, various in height, sometimes taller 

 than the stem ; pale, entire and sheathing at the base. Spike 

 oblong, obtuse, an inch or inch and half long, of a rusty hue, 

 mixed with green. Spikelets 8 or 10, partly bracteated, sessile, 

 with a few barren Jorets in the upper part of each, and more 



