96 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



loose, slightly drooping. Fruit lanceolate, triangular, 

 ribbed. 



C. strigosa. Huds. 41 1 . Gooden. Tr. ofL. Soc. v. 2. 169. t. 20./. 4. 



Fl. Br. 982. Engl. Bot. v. 14. t. 994. Dicks. Dr. PL 86. Hook. 



Scot. 264. WUld. Sp. PL v. 4. 289. Schk. Car. 94. t. N.f. 53. 

 C. Leptostachys. Ehrh. in Linn. SuppL 414. Phijtoph.48. 

 Gramen cyperoides polystachyon majusculum latifolium, spicis 



multis, longis, stvigosis. Rail Sijn.4\9. 



In groves and thickets, rare. 



In a lane at Black Notley, Essex; Mr. Dale. Ray. In Witham 

 wood, near Oxford. Rev. Dr. Sheffield. Noke wood. Sibth. 

 Bedfordshire. Abbot. Hedenham wood, Norfolk. Mr. Stone. 



Perennial. April, May. 



Root fibrous. Whole plant much smaller, and more slender, than 

 the last, of a light grass green, smooth in every part, except the 

 edges and rib of the leaves. Stem 2 feet high, bluntly triangu- 

 lar. Bracteas leafy, sheathing the Jlower-stalks almost entirely. 

 Fertile catkin about 4, loose and slender; barren one more 

 dense. Scales lanceolate. Stam. 3. Sligm. 3. Fruit green, 

 ovate-lanceolate, ribbed, scarcely notched, not beaked. Seed 

 elliptical, triangular. 



25. C. sylvatica. Pendulous Wood Carex. 



Sheaths not half the length of the flower-stalks. Catkins 

 slender, rather loose, drooping. Fruit ovate, triangular, 

 beaked, without ribs. 



C. sylvatica. Huds. ed. 1 . 353. ed. 2. 4 11 . Gooden. Tr. o/L. Soc. 



V. 2. 183. FL Br. 983. Engl. BoL v. 14. t. 995. Linn. FL Lapp. 



ed.2.263. Dicks. H.Sicc.fasc.9.\3. Hook.ScoL264. Purt. 416. 



Schreb. Lips. 02. FL Dan. t. 404. Schk. Car. 1 1 1 . <. L, 1./. 10 1 . 



"HosL Gram.v. 1.62. <. 84." 

 C. Drymeia. Ehrh. in Linn. SuppL 414. Phytoph. 58. Willd. 



Sp. PLv.4. 296. Car. BeroL 26. t.3.f.3. 

 C. vesicaria /S. Linn. Sp. PL 1389, 

 C. patula. Scop. Cam. v. 2. 226. ^59. Pollich v.2.597. Villars 



Dauph.v. 2. 2\4. 

 C. capillaris. Leers 202. t. 15./. 2. 

 C. n. 1395. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 1 96. 

 Gramen cyperoides sylvarum tenums spicatum. Raii Syn.A\9. 



Moris. V. 3. 243. secL 8. L 12. f. 9. Scheuchz. Agr. 418. Lob. 



Illuslr. 60. 



In woods common, especially on a clay soil which is wet in winter. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root tufted, with stout fibres. Herbage of a bright grass green, 

 about the size of the last, but stouter. Stem smooth, triangular, 

 with striated, rather convex, interstices. Leaves rough on their 



