MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 123 



sheaths, each catkin near an inch and half long, bluntish, dense, 

 but not stout 5 the scales lanceolate, brown with a green keel, 

 tapering into a rough point, various in length. Stam. 3. Stigm. 

 3. Fruit longer than the scales, ovate, triangular, green, 

 ribbed, smooth, not tumid or inflated ; tapering into a flattish, 

 smooth, deeply cloven, beak. Seed filling the cavity of- the fruit, 

 stalked, triangular, short, brown. 



66. C. vesicaria. Short-spiked Bladder Carex. 



Fertile catkins cylindrical, short, abrupt, on short stalks. 

 Scales all lanceolate, acute. Sheaths none. Fruit ovate, 

 inflated, with an elongated cloven beak. 



C. vesicaria. Linn.Sp.Pl.MQS. a, andy. fVilld. v. 4.307. FL 

 Br. 1005. EngLBot.v.ll.t.779. Hook. Scot. 269. DonH. 

 Br. 193. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 14. 18. Fl. Dan. t. 647. Leers 

 205 y. t. 1 6. /. 2. III. Schk. Car. 124. t. S, s. /. 106. Ehrh. 

 Calam. 60. 

 C.inflata. Huds. 412} Light/. 567. 

 C. n. 1409. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 200. 

 Cyperoides vesicarium, spicis viridantibus, vel subfuscis. Scheuchz. 



Agr. 4/0. 

 Gramen cyperoides majus praecox, spicis turgidis teretibus flaves- 

 centibus. Dill, in Raii Syn. 420. Moris, v. 3. 242, sect. 8. t. 1 2. 

 /.6. 

 In marshes, and wet meadows. 



In Wales and the north of England. Huds. In Breadalbane and 

 other parts of Scotland. Light/. About Oxford, but rarely. Bo- 

 bar t. By the water-works at Pimlico, and in other swampy 

 places about London. 

 Perennial. May, 



Root creeping. Stem erect, 2 feet high, with 3 very sharp rough 

 angles. Leaves light green, erect, rather narrow, taper-point- 

 ed, rough-edged. Bracteas narrower, with long slender points, 

 rising above the stem, without any sheaths, or occasionally with 

 some very short ones. Barren catkins 2 or 3, often solitary, 

 slender, acute, near 1|- inch long ; their scales linear-lanceolate, 

 rusty, sharpish, but without any awn. Fertile 3 or 4, generally 

 on short, smooth, triangular stalks, the lower stalks, as usual, 

 variable ; each catkin about an inch, occasionally 2, in length, 

 obtuse, a little drooping, becoming turgid and thick in ripening, 

 and finally pale, almost straw-coloured } scales lanceolate, acute, 

 or pointed, brown, with a green keel. Stam. 3. Stigm. 3, with 

 a style of nearly their own length. Fruit crowded, spreading, 

 longer than the scales, ovate, inflated, ribbed, yellowish and 

 shining when ripe, very smooth, terminating in a gradually ta- 

 pering 6ea A;, whose extremity is deeply cloven into 2 sharp points. 



