MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 115 



C. glauca. Scop. Cam. V. 2. 22^. Pollich v. 2. 594. 



C. flacca. Schreb. Lips. append. n.669. Schk.Car.\ 17.<.0, P./. 57. 

 Wuhlenh. Stockh. Trans, for 1803. 160. Ehrh. Phytoph. 98. 



C. pendula. Schreb. Lips. 62. 



C. limosa ^. Leers 201. <. 15. /.3 ! 



C. n. 1408. Hall. Hist. V. 2.200 ; with confused references. N. 

 1407 of this author is presumed to be the same. 



Cyperoides palustre, spicis purpureo-spadiceis, tenuibus pediculis 

 insidentibus. Scheucliz. jgr.467. 



Gramen cyperoides, foliis caryophylleis, spicis oblongis, e pedi- 

 culis longioribus pendulis. Raii S>j7i.4\8. 



G. cyperoides nemorosum, spica subnigra recurva. Moris, sect. 8. 

 t. \2.f. 14. But not oi Bauh. Theatr. 98 ; nor is Morison's own 

 definition, v. 3. 243. n. 14, correct. 



/3. Carex Micheliana. Sm. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 5. 270. Fl. Br. 1004. 

 Engl. Bot.v. 32. «. 2236. 



C. ambleocarpa. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 307. 



Cyperoides foliis caryophylleis, caule exquisite triangulari, spicis 

 habitioribus, squamis curtis, obtusfe mucronatis, capsulis turbi- 

 natis brevibus confertis. Mich. Gen. 62. t. 32. f. 12. 



In moist meadows, pastures, groves, and wet barren heathy 

 ground, common. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root creeping, sheathed with purplish-brown scales. Herbage 

 glaucous, very conspicuous in moist as well as dry weather. 

 Stem erect, from 8 to 18 inches high, roundish with 3 angles, 

 scarcely rough in any part. Leaves mostly radical, upright, or 

 partly recurved, broad, acute, rough-edged, not half so tall as 

 the stem, much resembling the foliage of pinks or carnations. 

 Bracteas leafy, the lowermost several inches long; their sheaths 

 short, crowned with rounded brown auricles. Fertile catkins 2, 

 often 3, cylindrical, obtuse, many-flowered, veiy dense, droop- 

 ing as they ripen, and at length pendulous, each on a slender 

 smooth stalk, many times longer than its sheath. Scales ovate> 

 more or less acute ; bluntish and entirelypointless, in thevariety 

 /3 3 their colour like chocolate, with a greenish rib. Barren catkin 

 generally solitary, but very often accompanied by a smaller 

 one, and the upper portion of several of the fertile catkins fre- 

 quently consists of barren florets ; ^ is remarkable for having 4 

 completely barren catkins, with half another ; though only one, 

 compound at the base, consisting entirely of fertile florets. 

 Scales of the barren catkins usually obovate and obtuse, dark 

 brown with a yellow rib ; sometimes they are partly acute, and 

 even pointed. Starn.3. Stigm. 3 , on a, shoxt stijle. Fruit gI- 

 liptical, or somewhat obovate, obtuse, bluntly triangular, tumid, 

 more or less downy or rough, cf a rusty green, soon becoming 

 black, destitute of a beak, though obscurely cloven. Seed 

 short, triangvilar, dark brown with pale angles. 



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