108 MONOECIA— TRIANDRTA. Carex. 



scales ; a portion of such a catkin often terminating 1 or 2 of 

 the fertile ones. Stajn. 3. Stigm. 3, almost sessile. Fruit longer 

 than the scales, spreading, straight, ovate, triangular, brownish, 

 smooth, with a shortish, cloven, straight, rough-edged beak. 

 Seed roundish, triangular, brown, twice the size of either of the 

 two last. 

 Undoubtedly very distinct from C.Jlava, as well as from distans, 

 with both which it has been occasionally confounded, as well as 

 with speirostachya, by Britisliand foreign botanists ; so that the 

 recorded places of growth, of one or the other, are not always 

 to be relied on, any more than the synonyms. 



41. C. extensa. Long-bracteated Carex. 



Sheaths and flower-stalks very sliort. Bracteas very long 

 and spreading. Fertile catkins elliptic-oblong, near to- 

 gether. Scales somewhat awned. Fruit ovate, trian- 

 gular, with a short, smooth, cloven beak. Stem very 

 smooth. 



C. extensa. Gooden. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v.2. I75.t.2\.f. 7 ; and v. 3. 

 77. Fl. Br. 992. Engl. Bot. v. 1 2. t. 833. Hook. Scot. 267. H^illd. 

 Sp. PI. V. 4. 268. Schk. Car. 74. t. V./. 72. 



C. flava /3. Huds. 407. 



Cyperoides echinatum majus. Petiv. Cone. Gram. 6. n. 169. Dill, 

 in Raii Syn. 421. 



On the sea coast. 



On Cley beach, Norfolk, 1776. Rev. H. Bryant. Near Harwich, 

 and in the marshy part of Braunton Burrows, Devonshire. 

 Bishop of Carlisle. On the coast east of St. Andrews. Mr. J. 

 Mackay. Near Rhodipole, Weymouth. Mr. Groult. 



Perennial. June. 



Root black, with many stout fibres, tufted, or slightly creeping. 

 Stem generally more or less curved, from 6 to 12 or 18 inches 

 high, bluntly triangular, very smooth throughout ; leafy in the 

 lower part. Leaves very long and narrow, channelled, recurved j 

 rough-edged towards the extremity; sheathing at the base. 

 Bracteas like the leaves, but spreading widely, and curved rather 

 downward ; angular, furrowed, and very slightly sheathing, at 

 the base. Fertile catkins usually 3, near together, erect, 

 roundish or ovate ; sometimes one stands remote from the rest ; 

 and sometimes they are all elongated and cylindrical. Flower- 

 stalks extremely short. Scales small, ovate, rusty, the lower 

 ones especially tipped with a minute point, or awn ,• all keeled, 

 and often three- ribbed. Stam.3. Stigm. 3. Fruit \onger than 

 the scales, moderately spreading, ovate, triangular, ribbed, 

 smooth, tapering into a short, straight, smooth, cloven beak, 

 not so abrupt at the base as that oijiava. Seed brown, trian- 

 gular, tumid. 



