CYPEKACEyT;. 83 



Uiglilands. In Yorkshire it occurs on the banks of the Dcrwent, 

 near Lilla-cross, and in several bog-gy places between Wliitford and 

 Pickering; in Northnmberland, in South Tynedale, in Muckle Moss, 

 and in a peat bog between the " Twice-Brewed Ale " public house 

 and Craglough: both these stations are less than 300 yards above 

 the sea. It is said also to occur near Dumfries, where the altitude 

 cannot be much greater. In the Scotch Highlands it is a common 

 plant at an elevation of 500 to 700 yards above the sea. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



A very distinct species, with the flowering stems 2 to 18 inches 

 high. In the small specimens the leaves are as long as or a little 

 longer than the stems, but in the large ones they are considerably 

 shorter. Male flowers 1 or 2 ; female 2 to 4. Fruit ^ inch long, at 

 first ascending, afterwards spreading, ultimately reflexed. 



Few-flowered Sedge. 



French, Carex a qtiatre Jleurs. German, WemjbUifhiije Segge. 



Section II.— HOMOSTACHY^. 



Spike compound or rarely decompound, continuous or rarely inter- 

 rupted, composed of androgynous spikelets, or rarely of subunisexual 

 spikelets. 



Group E.— CHOPvDOPtRHIZ.E. 



Rootstock chordorrhizal. Spikes brown, compound, continuous or 

 nearly so, \vith a short setaceous- or foliaceous-pointed bract at the 

 base. Spikelets male at the apex, or occasionally some of tliem 

 wholly male. Fruit sessile, ascending or spreading-ascendino-. 

 Stigmas 2. 



SPECIES VI.-C A REX INCURVA. L!gh/f. 

 Plate MDCXV. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. Vin. Tab. CXCIX. Pig. 533. 



Rootstock chordorrhizal, much branched, with elongate stolons. Stem 

 generally curved, rather slender, subtrigonous, smooth. Leaves usually 

 recurved, nearly as long as the stem, linear, semicylmdrical, smooth, 

 deep green, not glaucous. Spikes compound, capitate, roundish- 

 pyramidal, continuous, -with a glumelike bract at the base. Spikelets 

 3 to 6, ovoid, all with a few male flowers towards the apex. 



