MORPHOLOGY OF CAREX AND OTHER MONOCOTYLEDONS, 165 
and os ins sheathing bract above, which is the seeond bract o Hoth 
sam: Kunth seems to have been led to consider the citrigaen 
of vray as consisting of one bract, and to recognise its position on a 
correct the dine nature 0 utrieulus anne follows. I 
c 
wi the spikelets of several Grasses; but that there is a great 
similarity in the construction of Grasses and Sedges, and that the cor- 
relative position of their parts leads to the conclusion that the two- 
nerved or keeled inner pales of Grasses are single floral b 
If such be the vices of the female flower of Carex, what 
is that of the — ower? Here there is uniformly but one outer 
t 
econdary axis, I think it very probable that, as in Loum and 
wits genera of Graminew, the inner bract is Ponn andey its presence 
C; 
instances reco brid by Robert — and others of the utriculus con- 
tai sta te parte of an 
collateral position may be due to pressure, but it also rh ts the 
no means insist on this vi 
As regards the sttties of other genera of the order Cyperacew, 
there exist much greater difficulties in coming to a right conclusion 
shaper ae mA tg the stamens in such “genera as steak! Eleocharis, 
Eriophori 
ore floral whorls, 
the eruotare eet be 50 different as to fiscdssltate the removal “4 
Carex from the order; whilst on the other hand we must first 
certain iar we “hitentielk rightly the construction of these genera, na 
' feel that I have not studied the extra-Eyropean species sufficiently 
to arrive at satisfactory conclusions. I have long Sota deredk the 
eee a pets ponpeatie the Peace a as the modification of 
* Prod. Flor. Nov. Holl., p. 242. This and other instances are aase. 
in “ Vegetable Teratology,” ‘by Maxwell T. Masters, M.D., F.#.S., p. 199, 
Dr. Masters also, at page 143 of the hag work, records the occurrence 0 of axil- 
lary prolification in Curex, observed by M 1. Wesmae land by Mr. Wigand.—[See 
p. 24 of this volume. ] 
