MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 91 



Gramen cyperoides palustre majus, spica compacta. Rail Syn, 423. 



Bauh. Theatr. 87. f. Moris, v. 3. 244. sect. 8. t. 12./. 24. 

 G. cyperoides palustre triquetrum, spica integra. Bauh. Hist. 



v.2.497.f. 

 G. palustre cyperoides. Ger. Em. 21. f. Lob. Ic. 19. f. 

 Scirpoides palustre majus, spica compacta. Mont. Prodr.\7 . f. 



F, H. 



In watery places, and the margins of ponds and rivers. 



Perennial. May. 



Root fibrous, tufted, not creeping. Stems straight and firm, 2 feet 

 high, leafy in the lower part only, very sharply triangular, with 

 compressed, rough, cutting angles ; the interstices concave ; the 

 summit about twice as thick as the main stalk of the spike, into 

 which it is suddenly contracted. Leaves deep green, taller than 

 the stem, rather broad, with a rough keel and edges, to be 

 handled cautiously. Spihe twice or thrice compounded, oblong, 

 obtuse, erect, 2 or 3 inches long, usually dense, or slightly in- 

 terrupted, with several long, taper, rough, spreading bracteas, 

 ovate at their base, from the lower part of the spike j but these 

 are not constantly protruded. Ultimate spikelets ovate, dense, 

 with numerous barren florets above the fertile ones. Scales 

 ovate, acute j the lower ones especially rather abrupt, with long 

 points. Fruit widely spreading, brown, ovate, ribbed, tapering 

 into a flat, serrated beak, notched at the point, but less rigid, or 

 prickly, than in C. muricata. 



Haller speaks of this as a variable species, not having clearly un- 

 derstood its limits or synonyms. 



19. C. tereihiscula. Lesser Panicled Carex. 



Spike twice or thrice compound, dense. Fruit spreading, 

 tumid at one side, with a tapering, serrated beak. Stem 

 triangular, with convex interstices. 



C. teretiuscula. Goodew. Tr. o/i. 5oc. v. 2. 163. 1 19./. 3. Fl.Br. 

 977. Engl. Bot.v.lo.t. 1065. Willd.Sp. PL v. 4.244. Schk. 

 Car. 30. t. D./. 1 9. T.f. 69. Don. H. Br. 189. 



In boggy watery meadows. 



On St. Faith's bogs near Norwich ; and at Barton mills, Suffolk. 

 Mr. Crowe. In bogs and marshes to the north of Queen's ferry, 

 Scotland. Mr. J. MacA-ay. Near Aberdeen. Pro/". £ert«ie. Near 

 Forfar. Mr. G. Don. Pembrokeshire. Mr. Dickson. North of 

 England. Mr. R. Teesdale, and others. 



Perennial. May. 



Root blackish, fibrous, or slightly creeping, not densely tufted like 

 the following. Stems 12 or IS inches high, upright, slender, 

 with 3 sharp angles, whose intermediate spaces are convex, with 

 a prominent line in their centre, so that a transverse section of 



