80 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



In wet meadows. Formerly found at Laiisdown, near Bath, but 

 now lost by drainage. All the other localities rej^orted for it belong 

 to C. dioica. 



England (extinct). Perennial. Early Summer. 



Very similar to C. dioica, but much more ca^spitose, and without 

 the elongate stolons of that plant. Stems more triangular, and 

 rough towai'ds the apex, usually taller. Spikes larger; the female one 

 ^ to f inch long : glumes paler and more acute. Fruit much longer 

 (nearly ^ inch), narrower, paler, more faintly nerved, and at length 

 more deflexed than in C. dioica. 



Tufted Dioecious Sedge. 

 French, Carex de Daval. German, Daval'sche Segge. 



Group B.— PULICARES. 



Spike terminal, solitary, simple, androgynous, male at the apex and 

 female at the base. Stigmas 2. Nut plano-convex. Leaves seta- 

 ceous, involute. Bracts none. 



SPECIES m.— C AREX PULICARIS. Lhm. 



Plate MDXCII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Gei-m. et Helv. Vol. VIH. Tab. CXCV. Fig. 524. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 295G. 



Rootstock densely cajspitose, without elongate stolons. Stems erect, 

 filiform, cylindrical, smooth. Leaves erect, short, narrowly setaceous, 

 involute, rather rigid, deep green, not glaucous, rough on the margins 

 towards the apex. Spikes terminal, solitary, simple, androgynous, 

 male at the apex, female towards tlie base, which has no bract. Glumes 

 all lanceolate, acute, reddish-brown witli pale margins, those of the 

 female flowers rather broader, shorter than the fruit, deciduous. Fruit 

 substipitate, at first erect, afterwards deflexed, dark brown, shining, 

 elliptical, acuminated at each end, flattish on the face, very convex on 

 the back, with a line round the margin, insensibly attenuated into a 

 short notched smooth beak. Stigmas 2. Nut grey, oblong-elliptical, 

 slightly biconvex. 



In bogs. Common, and generally distributed, reaching north to 

 Orkney and Shetland. Frequent and generally distributed in Ire- 

 land. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 



Plant growing in tufts, witli from 2 to 20 flowering stems 3 to 9 



