94 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SuB-SrEciEs n. — Carex divulsa. Good. 



Plate MDCXXV. 



Eeich. Ic. n. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIII. Tab. CCXX. Fig. 570. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Genn. Exsicc. No. 1775. 



Stems arching, rather weak. Spike greatly interrupted. Spikelets 

 5 to 12. Glumes greenish-white with green keels. Fruit spreadiug- 

 ascending, with a slightly scabrous beak. 



On hedgebanks and in woods. Not uncommon in England, at 

 least in the south, extending north to Denbigh and Yorkshire. Given 

 by Professor Babington as a native of Scotland; but I have seen no 

 Scotch specimens, and doubt its occurrence there. Very local and rare 

 in Ii'eland, where it is confined to the south and east of the island. 



England, Scotland?, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Very similar to C. eu-muricata, var. /3, but more slender, with the 

 stems weaker, the spike longer (2 to 6 inches), with more numerous 

 and smaller spikelets, the lowest one more often compound ; the 

 glumes greener; fruit generally greyish-olive, not brown, smaller (^ 

 inch), less spi'eading, and with the beak much less rough. I can see 

 no difference in the shape of the nut. 



Grey Sedge. 



French, Carex interromjm. German, Zerrissene Segge. 



Group H.— STELLULAT^. 



Rootstock ca^spitose. Spikes green or yellowish, slightly inter- 

 rupted. Bracts short, only the lowest one setaceous herbaceous. 

 Spikelets male at the base, female at the apex. Fruit spreading 

 sessile, commonly corky at the base, margined, with a long 2-toothed 

 beak. Stigmas 2 ; nut plano-convex or lenticular. 



SPECIES XV.— CAREX STELLULATA. Good. 

 Plate MDCXXVI. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VHI. Tab. CCXIV. Fig. 360. 



C. echinata, Murr. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 398. Pari. Fl. Ital. Vol. II. 

 p. 147. 



Rootstock densely caespitose,. mthout elongated stolons. Stems 

 slender, ascending, trigonous, nearly smooth. Leaves shorter than 

 the stem, narrowly linear, channelled, rough on the margins towards 



