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scarious margins, and are longer in proportion to the fruit, which 

 appears to be very rarely perfected, as 1 have never seen a specimen of 

 which the nut was full grown. 



I have very little doubt of this being a hybrid between C. paniculata 

 and C. remota. 



Bonninghausen! s Sedge. 



German, Zlltergrasartige Segge. 



Group J.— HELEONASTES. 



Rootstock CEBspitose. Spike very slightly interrupted. Bracts 

 minute, not herbaceous, or if so much shorter than the spike. Spikelets 

 yellowish or reddis]i-bro\vn, male at the base, female at the apex. 

 Fruit ascending or spreading-ascending, sessile, with a long or rather 

 long entire or slightly bidentate beak, not winged. Stigmas 2. 



SPECIES XIX.— CARE X ELONGATA. Linn. 



Plate JIDCXXX. 



Bekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIH. Tab. CCXVin. Fig. 565. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 156G. 



Rootstock very densely c^spitose, without stolons. Stems ascend- 

 ing-erect, slender, stiff, triquetrous, rough below the spike. Leaves 

 rather longer than the stem, erect, linear, flat, rough on the margins, 

 pale green, not glaucous. Spike rather short, compound, slightly 

 interrupted below, without a foliaceous bract at the base. Spikelets 

 6 to 14, elliptical- or oblong-ovoid, simple, all male at the base, with 

 scarious bracts. Glumes of the female flowers very broadly ovate, 

 acute or mucronate, reddish-brown with a green midrib and narrow 

 white scai'ious margins, much shorter than the fruit. Fruit yellow- 

 ish-olive, ultimately dull olive-brown, spreading-ascending, sessile, 

 elliptical-lanceolate, slightly bi-convex, attenuated at the base, with 

 numerous strong ribs on each face, rather gradually acuminated into 

 a slightly deflexed triangular-subulate rough-edged entire beak about 

 half as long as the rest of the fruit. Stigmas 2. Nut pale yellowish, 

 oval, obtuse at each end, plano-convex. 



In wet meadows and boggy woods. Rare. Weybridge, Surrey ; 

 near Coggeshall, Essex ; Colemere, Salop ; Over-Holford and 'i'ablej', 

 Cheshire; near Manchester, Lancaster; near Rotherham and Lang- 

 with; near York, Yorkshii'e. On the shores of Lough Neagh, Antrim. 



England, Ireland. Perennial. Sunuuer. 



