MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. Ill 



My copy of Schkuhr's Carices goes no further than t. D, d, d, so 

 that I cannot verify Willdenow's reference to that admirable 

 and most correct work. Wahlenberg's C. binervis, Stockh. 

 Trans, for 1803. 157, is our speirostachya, n.28, he having been 

 misled by a specimen of the latter, which was not then known 

 in England. 



44. Q. prcBCOx. Vernal Carex. 



Sheaths about equal to the very short flower-stalks. Cat- 

 kins all elliptical, rather crowded. Scales of the fertile 

 ones pointed. Fruit pear-shaped, downy, with an abrupt 

 entire point. 



C. prsecox. Jacq.jiustr. t. 4-16. fVilld. Sp. PL v. 4. 262. Gooden. 

 Tr. o/L. Soc. V. 2. 170. Fl. Br. 994. Engl. Bot. v. 16. t. 1099. 

 Hook. Scot. 267. Lond.t. 22. Relh. ed. 2. 367. Schk. Car. 6S. 

 t. Y.f. 27. 



C. saxatilis. Huds. 408. 



C. montana. Lightf. 551 ; not of Hudson. 



C. filiformis. Leers 200. t. 16./. 5, 



C. stolonifera. Ehrh. Calani. 99. 



C. n. 1381. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 192 ; without any doubt. 



Gramen cyperoides vernum minimum. Raii Syn. 421. 



G. cyperoides spicatum. Ger. Em. 22. f. 



G. cyperoides spicatum, foliis caryophylleis. Moris, v. 3. 243. 

 sect. 8. t.l2.f. 11. 



G. spicatum, foliis Veronicse caryophyllatse. Lob. Ic. 10./. 



Cyperoides vernum, caule rotundo-triquetro, spicis seminalibus 

 densioribus, binis, vel ternis, squamis ferrugineis, obtuse mu- 

 cronatis, et tamquam in aristulam prolongatis, capsulis turbi- 

 natis subhirsutis trilateris. Mich. Gen. 64. n. 70. Segu. Veron. 

 V. 1. 122. t. I./.3. 



On dry heaths and hillocks, and in open barren pastures, very 

 abundant. 



Perennial. April. 



Root branched, creeping, with several procumbent leafy shoots. 

 Stem ascending obliquely, from 3 to 6 or 8 inches high, firm, 

 triangular, smooth ; leafy at the base only. Leaves several, 

 forming close tufts, short, harsh, spreading, or recurved, pointed, 

 keeled, flattish, ribbed ; rough at the edges, points and ribs j 

 their colour rather glaucous, and pink-like. Bracteas short, 

 very narrow, erect, often wanting ; their sheaths tubular, though 

 short and abrupt, dilated upwards. Flower-stalks hardly reach- 

 ing beyond the sheaths. Fertile catkins generally 2, near to- 

 gether, erect, elliptic-oblong, dense, but not many-flowered ; 

 their scales ovate, brown, with a green rib, and small point. 

 Barren catkin solitary, longest, elliptic-oblong, rather obtuse 

 and club-shaped, with blunt, rusty, pale- ribbed scales. Sfa7n.3. 



