MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 93 



with a serrated, partly fringed, notched beak, which when ripe 

 is narrow and abrupt at the base, not broad nor gradually ta- 

 pering. 

 Ray, and others who have accurately observed this Carex, remark 

 that it forms large dense tui'ts, like those of Rushes, safely to be 

 walked upon, which is not the case with C. teretiuscula. By this 

 mode of growth it gradually changes the most rotten bogs into 

 profitable meadows, capaljle at length of producing better her- 

 bage. My worthy friend Hooker surely cannot think that 

 either science or agriculture are endangered, by plants, so much 

 alike, yet so distinct in character and economy, being correctly 

 discriminated. 



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Barren and fertile Jlorets in separate catJcins; the barren 

 catkin solitary. Bracteas membranous. Stigmas three. 



21, C. digitala. Fingered Carex. 



Bracteas membranous, sheathing, scarcely leafy. Catkins 

 linear, lax, erect ; the barren one shortest ; fertile two or 

 three. Leaves flat. 



C. digitata. Linn. Sp. PL 1384. IVilld. v. 4. 256. Hiids. 409. 

 Fl. Br. 979. Engl. Bot. v. 9. t.615. Leers \99. t. 16./. 4. Schk. 

 Car. 76. ^H./. 38. Fl. Dan.t. U&&. Ehrh. Calam.\20. 



C.n. 1376. Hall. Hist. V. 2. \9l. 



Cyperoides montanum nemorosum, caule triquetro-compresso, 

 spicis ferrugineis tenuioribus, inter se distantibus, capsulis ra- 

 rius dispositis, oblongis, turbinatis, trilateris. Midi. Gen. 65. 



'•32./. 9. 

 Gramen caryophyllatum montanum, spica varia. Bauh. Prodr.O.f. 



Tlieatr.4S.f. Sclieuchz. Jgr. 4-iS.t. 10. f. 14. Moris, v. 3. 243. 



sect.8.t.\2.f. 15 J bad. 

 G. caryophyllatum polycarpon, fructu triangulo. Loss. Pruss. 1 12. 



t. 27. 



In woods and thickets, among limestone rocks, rare. 



Near Bath. Mr. Sole. Under St. Vincenfs rocks, Bristol, on the 

 south side of the river. Mr. W. Clayjield. Woods at Thorp- Arch, 

 Yorkshire. Sir T. Frankland, Bart. Abundantly in Mackershaw 

 wood, near Ripon. Mr. W, Brunton,jun. 



Perennial. May. 



Roots tufted, of many shaggy dark fibres. Stems slender, 6 or 8 

 inches high, ascending, obscurely triangular, smooth, naked, 

 except at the base, where they are wrapped in dark-red sheaths, 

 as well as with the red sheaths of the green, grassy, flat, pointed 

 leaves, various in height, whose edges have been well observed 

 by the Bishop of Carlisle to be rough with reflexed teeth toward 

 the base, smooth in the middle, and rough with teeth pointing 

 upwards near the extremity j their rib smooth. Fertile catkins 



