106 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



, yellowish green ; pendulous when ripe, from half an inch to an 

 inch long ; scales ovate, pointed, keeled. Barren catkin lanceo- 

 late, erect, with lanceolate tawny scales. Stam. 3. Stigmas 3. 

 Fruit about the length of the scales, rather obovate, slightly 

 ribbed, smooth, obtuse, equally triangular in the upper part, 

 tipped with a very small, abrupt beak, scarcely visibly notched. 

 Seed obovate, triangular. 

 Morison's sect. 8, t.l2 f. 16 is erroneously quoted for this species 

 by Ray, and others who perhaps copied him. The figure repre- 

 sents C. pilulifera. 



38. Q.fiava. Yellow Carex. 



Sheaths short, nearly equal to the flower-stalks. Fertile 

 catkins roundish-ovate. Fruit triangular, smooth, with a 

 cloven beak curved downward. Stem nearly smooth. 



C. flava. Linn. Sp. PL 1384. Willd.v. 4.268. FL Br. 990. EngL 

 Bot.v.\8.L\294. Hook. Scot. 266; omitting the variety. Dicks. 

 H. Sice, fasc.3. 14. FLDan. t. 1047. Leers 198. t. 15./. 6. 

 Schk. Car. 72. t. H./. 36. 



C. n. 1380. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 192. 



Gramen palustre echinatum. Raii Syn.42\. Ger.Em.l7.f. Lob. 

 Ic. 15./. Bauh.Hist.v.2.497 .f.498. 



G. palustre aculeatum germanicum. Bauh. Pin.7. Theatr. \09.f. 



G. cyperoides palustre, aculeatum. Moris, v. 3. 243. sect. 8.t. 12. 

 /19. 



In boggy meadows, frequent. 



Perennial. May, June. ' 



Root fibrous, tufted, scarcely creeping. Stem erect, from 9 to 12 

 inches high, triangular, smooth, except occasionally near the 

 ■ summit ; leafy at the base. Leaves bright grass green, erect, 

 various in height, broadish, flat, ribbed, rough at the edges and 

 keel, and marked with 2 prominent rough lines, on the upper 

 side, near the point, as observed by Mr. J. D. Sowerby. Bracteas 

 leafy ; the upper ones widely spreading, with extremely short 

 sheaths ; lowermost larger, less spreading, with a longer sheath, 

 almost equal to the stalk of the lowest catkin. Catkins all nearly 

 upright ; the barren one lanceolate, not alwaj's single, its scales 

 light brown, keeled, obtuse, with membranous edges ; fertile 2 

 or 3, ovate or nearly globose, tawny-yellow ; the lower one 

 generally stalked j some of them occasionally tipped with a few 

 ; barren^ore/s. Scales ovate, acute, tawny, with a broad greenish 

 Tih.Stam.S. Stigm.3. jFrwii green, at length yellow, ovate, or 

 obovate, triangular, turgid, smooth, ribbed, with a smooth cloven 

 beak, more or less remarkably bent downward, and considerably 

 longer than the scales, Seed small, triangular, black. 



