112 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



Stigm. 3. Fmit obliquely pearshaped, all over finely downy, 

 green, with a very short, conical, abrupt, entire, brown tip. 

 Seed triangular, rather flattened, polished, purplish brown. 

 This common Carex, so conspicuous in the spring, with its nume- 

 rous sulphur-coloured anthers, has had many names, being to- 

 tally unlike Schreber's C. prcecox, for which Jacquin mistook it, 

 misled as it should seem by the very wrong reference to Se- 

 guier, whose plant is our's. The other is now C. Schreberi, 

 Willd. V. 4. 225, and is Haller's n. 1367, belonging to our se- 

 cond section, but not yet found in Britain. 



45. C pilulifera. Round-headed Carex. 



Sheaths none. Fertile catkins two or three, sessile, crowd- 

 ed, almost globular, with pointed scales. Fruit trian- 

 gular, roundish, downy, with a short, cloven beak. 



C. pilulifera. Linn. Sp.PL\385. fVilld. v. 4. 2b9. Car. BeroL24. 



t.2.f.2. FZ.Br. 995. Engl. Bot.v.\?,.t.iiSb. Hook. Scot.267. 



Dicks.H.Sicc.fasc.9.l2.DonH.Bril.l9l. Schk.Car.7S.t.l.f.39. 

 C. montana. Linn. Sp. PI. \385. Huds.407. 

 C. filiformis. VI. Dan. i. 1048. 

 C. decumbens. Ehrh. Calam. 70. 

 Gramen cjrperoides, spicis brevibus congestis, folio molli. Rail 



Syn. ed. 2. 267. ed. 3. 421. 

 G. cyperoides tenuifolium, spicis ad summum caulem sessilibus 



globulorum agmulis. Pluk.Almag. \78. Phyt. t. 91. f.S. Raii 



Syn. ed. 2. app. 345. ed.3. 422. ■ 



On heaths, especially in boggy spots, frequent. 



Perennial. April, May. 



Root of numerous shaggy fibres, tufted, scarcely creeping. Stems 

 mostly recumbent, curved, weak, slender, triangular, smooth, 

 except at the top, naked, from 9 to 12 inches high. Leaves all 

 radical, or nearly so, tufted, pliant, erect, grassy, bright green, 

 rough at the edges and keel, longer and much narrower than in 

 the last, much shorter than the stem, except, as Willdenow re- 

 marks, those which last through the winter. Bracteas awl- 

 shaped, slender, smoothish, the lower one only rising above the 

 adjoining catkin, all of them quite destitute ol sheaths, though 

 dilated at the base. Fertile catkins 2 or 3, seldom 4, sessile, 

 near together, spreading, globular, dense, with ovate, mostly 

 bristle-pointed, scales; barren one erect, quite solitary and di- 

 stinct, lanceolate, acute, with rusty, lanceolate, white- edged 

 scales. Stam.3. Stigm, 3. -Fraii roundish-ovate, triangular, 

 all over densely downy, green, with a short brown beak, acute 

 and cloven at the summit. Seed yellowish, almost globular, 

 with 3 slight angles. 



Ray admitted this species into the appendix of his 2d edition, after 

 Petiver, though he had already described it, from Doody's spe- 



