CYrKRACE^. 0/ 



of tlie fruit to the apex of the beak, gradually acuminated into a 

 doo[)ly bifid beak nearly as long as the rest of the fruit. Stigmas 2. 

 Nut pale olive-yelloAV, ovate-elliptical, plano-convex. 



On sandy seashores. Common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ii'eland. Perennial. Summer. 



A well-marked species, with the rootstock running in the sand 

 often for a yard or more, and marking its position by the tufts of 

 leaves and flowering stems which it sends up at intervals. Stems 

 3 inches to 1 foot high, leafy only at the point where they epierge 

 from the sand, erect while in flower, but curved Avhen the fruit is 

 fully formed. Leaves darker green and much more rigid and re- 

 curved tlian in C. disticha. Spikes 1 to 3 inches long. Female 

 spikelets \ to I inch long. Fruit nearly \ inch long, remarkable for 

 the broad wing which runs down each side, commencing about the 

 middle and gradually losing itself in the deeply bifid beak. 



Of this plant there is said to be a variety, C. Witheringii of Gray, 

 in which the rootstock is not creeping. This I have never seen: 

 is it not merely a tuft which has been broken off in digging up the 

 plant when the rootstock was at greater depth than usual ? 



Sea Sedge. 



French, Carex des sables. German, Sand-Segge. 



Group F.— PANICULATE. 



Rootstock cfcspitose. Spikes brown, more or less decompound, 

 continuous or slightly interrupted below. Bracts short, only the 

 lowest with a setaceous herbaceous point. Spikelets male at the apex. 

 Fruit shortly stipitate, ascending-spreading. Stigmas 2. 



SPECIES X.— CAREX TERETIUS CU L A. Good. 

 Plates MDCXIX. MDCXX. 

 Reich. Ic. n. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIII. Tab. CCXXII. Fig. 572. 



Rootstock very shortly creeping, oblique, scarcely caispitose, growing 

 in small tufts, without elongate stolons. Stems slender, wiry, tri- 

 gonous, sometimes triquetrous above, rough in the upper part. Leaves 

 as long as the stem, narrowly linear, channelled, rough on the edges, 

 green, not glaucous. Spikes slightly decompound, oblong or ovoid- 

 oblong, continuous, rarely slightly interrupted below, with a bract at 

 the base, having a short setaceous herbaceous point usually rather 

 shorter than the lowest spikelet. Spikelets .5 to 8, ovoid, very slightly 

 compound and simple, only the lowest with a short foliaccous bract, 



