MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 107 



39. C. Oederi. Oederkn Carex. 



Sheaths and flower-stalks all very short. Fertile catkins 

 roundish-ovate. Fruit globular, triangular, direct, 

 smooth, with a straight cloven beak. Stem smooth. 



C. Oederi. Ehrh. Calam. 79. Engl. Bot.v. 25. t. 1773. Comp. ed. 

 4. 153. 



C. extensa. Relh.367. Teesd. Tr. ofL. Soc. v. 5, 69. 



C. flava /3. Hook. Scot. 266. 



On wet commons not unfrequent. 



Perennial. July. 



Much smaller than the last ; the fruit globular, with a straight 

 leak ; the colour of the whole plant less yellow. There appear 

 to be some exotic varieties of C. flava that approach it, though 

 the British J?atia always seems distinct enough from our Oederi. 

 Schkuhr's t. F. /. 26, rather perhaps belongs to Jlava, but 

 Ehrharfs dried specimen accords with our's. 1 have not studied 

 the subject so as to decide confidently, nor perhaps has any 

 other English botanist. 



40. Cfulva. Tawny Carex. 



Sheaths tubular, elongated, shorter than the flower-stalks. 

 Fertile catkins ovate, erect. Scales pointless. Fruit 

 ovate, triangular, direct, smooth, with a straight, cloven, 

 rough-edged beak. Stem rough. 



C. fulva. Gooden. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 2. 177. t. 20. f 6 j but not 

 v.3.77. Fl. Br. 991. Engl. Bot.v. \8. t. 1295. Hook. Scot. 266. 

 Willd. Sp. PL V. 4. 270. Schk. Car. I0\.t. T./. 67. 



In boggy meadows, not very unfrequent. 



Near Eaton, Shropshire. Rev. E. Williams. Very common in 

 Mearns-shire, North Britain. Prof. Beattie. 



Perennial. June, July, 



More allied to C. distans, 7i. 41, and speirostachya, n. 28, than to 

 Jlava. Root creeping. Stem erect, or rather ascending, 12 or 

 15 inches high, slender; leafy below ; triangular, the angles 

 very acute and rough, in the upper part. Leaves upright, flat, 

 lanceolate, sheathing, not half the length of the stem, striated, 

 rough at the edges and keel, but not on the upper side. Bracteas 

 leafy, not rising above the stem, with long, close, membranous- 

 edged sheaths, almost equal to the Jlower-stalks, at least the 

 upper ones ; the lowermost stalk being half as long again 

 as its sheath. Fertile catkins 2, rarely 3, considerably distant 

 from each other, upright, ovate, tawny ; their stalks triangular, 

 roughish. Scales ovate, obscurely ribbed, pointed, but never 

 awned. Barren catkin mostly single, sometimes 2, cylindrical, 

 erect, acute, of numerous, brown, membranous-edged, obtuse 



