MONOECIA-TRIANDRIA. Carex. 95 



This and the foregoing are among the most uncommon and di- 

 stinct, as well as the most elegant, of our English species of 

 Carex. 



**** Barren and fertile Jlcn-ets in separate catTcins ; the 

 barren catkin solitary^ very rarely or occasionally more 

 than one. Bracteas leafy, often sheathing. 



23. C. pendula. Great Pendulous Carex. 



Sheaths nearly as long as the flower-stalks. Fertile catkins 

 cylindrical, very long, drooping. Fruit densely crowded, 

 ovate, beaked. 



C. pendula. Huds.ed.\.S52.ed.2.A\\. Fl.Br.98\. Engl. Bot. 

 V. 33. t. 2315. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 288. Hook. Scot. 264. Curt. 

 Lond.fasc. 3. t. 63. Puit. 413. Schk. Car. 100. t.Q.f. 60. 



C. Agastachys. Ehrh. in Linn. Suppl. 414. Phyloph.\9. 



C. maxima. Scop. Cam. v. 2. 229. 



C. n. 1396. Hall. Hist.v. 2. 196. 



Gramen cyperoides, spica pendula longiore. Raii Syn. 420. Mo- 

 ris. V. 3. 242. sect. 8. f . 1 2./. 4. 



G. cyperoides latifolium, typha pendula longiore. Barrel. Ic, t. 45. 



In moist woods and hedges. 



In ditches about Braintree, Essex, and elsewhere. Ray. About 

 London in many places, as Hampstead, Highgate, and between 

 Paddington and Kensington. The late Mr. Woodward found it 

 near Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Dr. Stokes in Worcestershire and 

 Shropshire ; Mr. Robson by the river Tees ; the Rev. Dr. Stuart 

 in Breadalbane ; and the Bishop of Carlisle near Hastings. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root fibrous, tufted. Stem from 3 to 6 feet high, triangular, leafy, 

 roughish at the angles near the top only. Leaves large, re- 

 curved, harsh, grass green ; minutely rough at the edges and 

 keel J somewhat glaucous underneath j closely sheathing at the 

 base. Bracteas like the leaves, their sheaths commonly as long 

 as thefovjer-stalks. Catkins 6 or 7, long, cylindrical, droop- 

 ing, very dense, greenish ; all but the uppermost, and perhaps 

 a part of the next, consisting of innumerable, densely crowded, 

 fertile j^ore<s. Scales of all the catkins lanceolate, acute, brown, 

 with a pale keel. Stam. 3. Stigm. 3. Fruit green, ovate, tumid, 

 triangular, smooth, with a notched beak. Seed triangular, brown. 

 A few fertile forets occasionally occur at the end of the barren 

 catkin, and some barren ones in the second or third. 



Scopoli's name might well have suited this fine Carex, as being 

 one of the largest; but Hudson's, equally apt, has a prior right. 



24. C. strigosa. Loose Pendulous Carex. 



Sheaths nearly equal to the flower-stalks. Catkins slender. 



