MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 125 



58. C. hirta. Hairy Carex. 



Herbage hairy. Fertile catkins ovate-cylindrical, remote. 

 Scales awned. Sheaths nearly as long as the flower- 

 stalks. Fruit hairy, tumid, with a deeply-cloven beak. 

 Stem rough-edged. 



C. hirta. Lmw.Sp.PZ. 1389. Wmd.vA.?,\\. FLBr.]007. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 10. t. 685. Hook. Scot. 270. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 11.16. 

 Leers 206. t. 16./. 3. Schk. Car. 127. t. U, u.f. 108. Ehrh. 

 Calam. 100. 



C. anonyma. Fl. Dan. t. 425. 



C. n. 1403. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 198. 



Cyperoides polystachyon lanuginosum. Scheuchz. Agr. 478. 



Gramen cyperoides polystachyon lanuginosum. Raii Sz/n. 418. 

 Moris. V. 3. 243. sect. 8. t. 12. f. 10. ^Pluk. Almag. 178*. Phyt. 

 t. 34. f.6. 



/3. Fertile catkins compound. Schk. t. U, u.f. B. 



In wet meadows, woods, and watery places, frequent. 



/3. At Copgrove, Yorkshire. Mr. D. Turner. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root creeping extensively, with long, stout, scaly runners, and 

 densely shaggy radicles. Whole herb clothed, more or less co- 

 piously, with fine, soft, shaggy hairs, which the Bishop of Car- 

 lisle has observed occasionally to disappear almost entirely, in 

 wet situations, except at the top of the sheaths of the leaves, 

 never quite smooth, and usually thickly bearded. Stem erect, 

 2 feet high, leafy, with 3 sharp rough angles. Leaves scarcely 

 so tall, upright, flat, rough-edged, pointed, most hairy beneath. 

 Bracteas like the leaves, their sheaths, which are often smooth, 

 embracing nearly the whole of eachjlower-stalk. Barren cat- 

 kins 2 or 3, lanceolate, erect, light brown, their filmy-edged 

 scales pointed ; lower ones awned ; fertile 2 or 3, distant, stalk- 

 ed, erect, cylindrical, or somewhat ovate, about an inch long ; 

 their scales ovate, smooth, membranous, keeled, with long, slen- 

 der, rough awns. Stam. 3. Stigm. 3. Fruit ovate, tawny, 

 ribbed, always, I believe, hairy, tumid all round, though scarcely 

 inflated ; the beak broad, rough, deeply cloven, acute. Seed 

 roundish, with 3 angles, tipped with part of the stijle. 



The separate catkin in Fl. Dan. t.379, which has been thought to 

 belong to this species, may perhaps be C. Jiliformis, like the 

 principal figure. Schkuhr having rightly determined the ano- 

 nymous plate t. 425 of that work to be C. hirta, renders the 

 other less important. Plukenet's t. 34. f. 6, must be intended 

 for this, though the leaves answer better to C. Jiliformis. 



A specimen of Schkuhr's variety, our /3, gathered in Yorkshire by 

 Mr. Turner, has not only the lower part of each fertile catkin 



