268 MONOECIA TRTANDRIA. Carex. 



what remote. Resembles Car. ovalis in habit, but its spikelets 

 more numerous, smaller, more spear-shaped. Style in Car. 

 intermedia divided to the base; in Car, ovalis only about one 

 fourth. 



C. muricdta. Great Fruit-Prickly Pointed C. Spike 

 oblong, close, prickly, with the broad, rough-edged, 

 cloven, spreading beaks of the fruit. Spikelets round- 

 ish, mostly simple. Root fibrous. E. B. 1097' 

 Schk. Car. 20. E. 22. Host, t. 54. C. spicata. Sb. 

 27. 



Mohi j:)astMres, shady -places ; especially on a sandy soil. Sm. 

 Cowley. Littlemore. Sb. 



Per. June. 



Root fibrous. Herbage bright green. Stem upright, twelve or 

 eighteen inches, naked, except at the base. Ls. flattish, narrow, 

 taller than the stem. Spikelets about ten, rather crowded, 

 lower ones distant. Bract, egg-shaped, membranous, the lower- 

 most generally tipped with a rough, leafy point. Glumes egg- 

 shaped. Fruit deeply cloven at the point. Stig. two. 



Like Car. vulpina, but smaller; its spike never more than 

 doubly compound, and straw not enlarged under the spike, as in 

 Car. vvdp. 



C. divulsa. Grey C. Spike lengthened out, lax. 

 Spikelets above, approximating ; of its lower half 

 finally very distant, mostly single. Fruit erect, smooth- 

 edged ; roughish at the cloven point of the beak : root 

 fibrous. E. B. 629. Schk. Car. 20. W. w. 89. 

 Host, t. 55. 



Moist, shady pastures. 



Per. May. 



Plant pale greyish hue. Stem a foot, or more, weak, reclining. 

 Ls. sheathing, taller than the stem, with white, membranous, 

 torn sheaths, and stipulas. Spike erect, lengthened out, inter- 

 rupted, sometimes branched at the bottom. Spikelets alternate, 

 bracteated, nearly stalkless, upright, egg-shaped. Stiy. two, 

 downy, long. Caps, a little spreading, but not diverging. The 

 figure in Engl. Bot. wants \he fruit. 



Dr. Hooker considers Car. divulsa, a var. of Car. muricata, in 

 Fl. Scot. 



C. vulpina. Great Rough G. Spike thrice compound, 

 close, less compact in the lower part, blunt. Fruit 

 spreading, with a notched, rough-edged beak. Scales 

 pointed. The three angles of the stem compressed, 



