158 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



C. Occleri lias much the habit of C. exteusa, but the leaves are much 

 less deeply channelled, broader, and less rigid, the stems less wiry and 

 not at all ilexuous, the glumes paler and with the midrib not excurrent 

 into a mucro or cusp ; the fruit much smaller, more bluntly trigonous, 

 and with the 3 faces nearly equal, the ribs more equal, the beak 

 smooth, and with much shorter and more spreading teeth; the nut 

 much smaller, narrowed at the base, very obtuse at the apex, and with 

 a very conspicuous apiculus. 



C. patula, Host., ajjpears to belong to C. Oederi, but I have seen no 

 authentic specimens. 



(Eder's Sedge. 



French, Garex d'QUder. German, (Eder's Seijge. 



Sdb-Species II. — Carex eu-flava. 



Plates MDCLXXII. MDCLXXIH. 



C. flava, Ehrh. et Aud. Plur. 



C. flava, var. a, Kunth, Enum. Plant. Vol. II. p. 446. Hooh. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 

 p. 511. Coss. & Germ. Fl. Par. ed. ii. p. 7511. 



Leaves linear, usually shorter than the stem or equalling or ex- 

 ceeding it, rather soft, flat. Male spike stalked or subsessile. Female 

 spikes 1 to 3, rather remote or contiguous, erect or ascending, ovoid 

 or roundish, dense, many-flowered. Lowest bract rarely exceeding 

 the male spike, and generally much shorter. Glumes subobtuse, 

 reddish-brown, vnih a green midrib, ultimately brownish-yellow. Fruit 

 half-obovate-oval, obliquely trigonous-ovoid, much more convex above 

 than below, slightly shining, dull green, ultimately brownish yellow, 

 gradually narrowed mto a long or rather long deflexed conical subu- 

 late deeply notched beak, usually nearly as long as the rest of the 

 fruit. 



Var. «, genuina. 



Plate MDCLXXII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIII. Tab. CCLXXIII. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Gei-m. Exsioc. No. 2158. 



C. flava, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1294. Reich. Ic. I.e. p. 30. 



Leaves shorter than the stem. Male spike usually stalked. Female 

 spikes 1 to 3 (usually 2), not contiguous, the lowest one with the stalk 

 slightly exserted. Lowest bract commonly shorter than the male 

 spike. Fruit considerably narrowed towards the basej beak as long as 

 the rest of the fruit, greatly deflexed. 



