MONOECIA—TRIANDRIA. Carex. 97 



upper surface, as well as at the edges and keel. Flower-stalks 

 drooping, long and slender, sheathed by the bracteas at the base 

 chiefly, and very seldom half way up. Fertile catkins about 4, 

 lax, though thicker than in the last ; barren 1 or 2. Scales 

 ovate, acute. Stam. 3. Stigm. 3. Fruit brown, smooth, ovate, 

 with 3 green angles, but no lateral ribs, terminating in a beak 

 nearly its own length, cloven at the summit. Seed turbinate, 

 triangular. 

 It is remarkable that Linnaeus, after having well determined this 

 Carex in his Flora Lapponica, where he records its use to the 

 Laplanders, when carded and dressed, as a protection from se- 

 vere cold, should have made it a variety of his C. vesicaria ; to 

 which indeed it is rather more allied than to our strigosa, but 

 nevertheless a most distinct species. 



26. C. depauperata. Starved Wood Carex. 



Sheaths much shorter than the flower-stalks. Fertile cat- 

 kins distant, erect, of about three florets. Fruit inflated, 

 ribbed, with a notched beak. 



C. depauperata, Gooden. Tr. of Linn. Sue. u. 2. 18 1 . Fl. Br. 984. 



Engl. Bot.v. 16. t. 1098. Hook. Scot. 264. TVilld. Sp. PI. v. 4. 



278. _ 

 C. ventricosa. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 68. 

 C. triflora. Willd. Phytogr. fasc. \.2.t. \.f. 2. Schk. Car. 94. 



t.U.f.bO. 

 Cyperoides vesicarium humile, locustis rarioribus. Tourn. Inst. 



530 ; by his herbarium. 



In dry woods, but rare. 



In Charlton wood, Kent. Bishop of Carlisle. Near Godalmin, 

 Surrey. Mr. Dickson. Near Forfar, Scotland, sparingly. Mr. 

 G. Don. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root somewhat creeping. Stem about 1 8 inches high, erect, leafy, 

 bluntly triangular, smooth, striated. Leaves light green, rough 

 at the edges and keel, with long close sheaths. Bracteas like 

 them, but with shorter sheaths. Fertile catkins usually 3, re- 

 mote, erect, stalked, short, lax ; each of 2 or 3 florets; barren 

 one terminal, lanceolate, dense, of many^orers. Scales mem- 

 branous, ovate. Stam.3. Stigm. 3. Frwii large, green, ovate, 

 tumid, triangular, copiously ribbed, smooth, with a beak nearly 

 its own length, oblique and membranous, scarcely cloven, at 

 the extremity. Seed obtuse, triangular, of a shining brown. 



Willdenow has distinguished Micheli's t. 32. f. 5 as a species, by 

 the name of C. Michelii, Sp. PL v. 4. 277. It has 5 or 6 fertile 

 florets, whence an error has .slipped into the Fl. Br., from which 

 Micheli's synonym must be excluded. Curtis quotes this au- 

 thor still more erroneously. 



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