102 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



catkins 3 or 4, oh long, triangular, rough stalks, green, droop- 

 ing, cylindrical, 1^ or 2 inches long, one or two of them soli- 

 tary from the lower bracteas, the rest aggregate at the top of 

 the stem, accompanied by a solitary, more slender, barren cat- 

 kin, of a tawny hue. Scales all tapering, triangular, rough, 

 dilated at the base. Stam. 3, .short. Stigm. 3, on a long style. 

 Fruit green, lanceolate, triangular, ribbed, rough-edged, ta- 

 pering into a short, pointed, deeply cloven beak. A few 

 leaves, like the bracteas but larger, sheath the lower part of the 

 stem. The frtiit in ripening becomes reflexed. Seed small, 

 triangular. 



33. C. limosa. Green and gold Carex. 



Sheaths scarcely any. Fertile catkins ovate, dense, droop- 

 ing, many-flowered. Fruit elliptical, compressed, ribbed, 

 smooth-edged, without a beak. Root creeping. 



C. limosa. Linn. Sp. PL 1386. Willd.v. 4. 293. Huds. 409. Fl. 

 Br. 986. Engl. Bot. v. 29. t. 2043. Hook. Scot. 265. Don H. Br. 

 218. JVahlenb.Lapp.242. Stockh. Trans.for\803. ]6\ ; exclu- 

 ding the varieties, and the reference to Schkuhr. Fl. Dan. t. 646. 

 Schk.Car.XOa.t.X.f.lS. 



C, elegans. Willd. Berol. 34, t. 1 ./, 4. 



C. n. 1392. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 195. ' 



Cyperoides spica pendula breviore, squamis e spadiceo vel fusco 

 rutilante, viridibus. Scheuchz. Agr. 443. 1. 10./. 13. 



In deep rotten bogs, or turfy pools, rare. 



On turfy bogs in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Westmoreland. Hud- 

 son. Near Heydon, Norfolk, in a very deep rotten soil. Rev. 

 Henry Bryant. On St. Faith's Newton bogs. Mr. Woodward. 

 Cranberry fen. East Winch, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. In various 

 mountain marshes in Scotland. Rev. Dr. Stuart, Mr. G.Don,S^c. 



Perennial. July. 



Roots creeping very extensively, with long, compound, downy 

 fibres, and sending forth smooth leafy runners, deep into the 

 mud, so that the Jlowers are rarely produced, at least in Norfolk. 

 Stems solitary, terminal, ascending, a span long, triangular, 

 striated, roughish, leafy in the lower part. Leaves linear, narrow, 

 flat, pointed, a little glaucous, rough-edged, shorter than the 

 stem, enveloped at the base with brown scales. Bracteas 1 

 or 2, erect, taper, brown and membranous, slightly sheathing, 

 at the base. Fertile catkins mostly 2, rarely 3, or 1, on long, 

 slender, triangular, smooth stalks, drooping as they ripen, half 

 an inch long, ovate, dense, of many ovate, pointed, close scales, 

 brown, with a golden lustre ; the keel broad, green, of many 

 smooth ribs ; barren one terminating the stem, erect, linear, of 

 many membranous brown scales. Stam.3. Stigm. 3. Fruit 

 glaucous-green, smooth, erect, rather longer than the scales, 



