270 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



to the flower-stalks. Spikes slender, loose, slightly 

 drooping. Fruit spear-shaped, triangular, ribbed. E. 

 B. 994. Schk. Car. 94. N. 53. 



Graven and thickets, *. Noke Wood. Sb. (In Wythara Wood, 



near Oxford. Rev. Dr. Sheffield. 

 Per. June. 

 Root fibrous. Stem erect, slender, two feet, leafy, triangular, 



taller than the leaves. Ls. light green, broadish. Spikes, 



female, ibur, five, or more, on thread-shaped stalks, slender, 



soon drooping. Stig. three. Seed elliptical, triangular. Spikes 



all sheathed at the base. 

 Diserim. From Car. sylvatica, by its flower-stalks scarcely longer 



than the sheath, by its three cornered and acute capsules, but 



not with a long, taper beak. 



C. sylvdtica. Pendulous Wood C. Sheaths not half 

 the length of the flower-stalks. Spikes slender, rather 

 loose, drooping. Fruit egg-shaped, triangular, beaked, 

 without ribs. E. B. 995. Schk. Car. 111. L. 1. 

 101. Host, t. 84. 



Woods, especially on a day, wet soil. Sm. 



Per. June. 



Ls. in tufts from the joints of the roots, yellowish green. Cap- 

 sules smooth, and with a beak nearly as long as the capsule, 

 cloven at the end. Stig. three. Stamen-bearing spikelet 

 generally single. 

 The drooping spikes, and their thread shaped stalks, pale green 



of the leaves, and bending of the stem, render this an elegant 



plant. 



The Laplanders form a wadding of this plant, carded and 



dressed, for their shoes and gloA'es, to protect them from the winter 



cold, and summer heat. Linn. The leaves of this (and of 



other Carices), are used for binding wine flasks of glass, bottoming 



common chairs, and for stopping the interstices of casks, by the 



cooper. Linn. Fl. Suec. 



* * * Pistil-hearing spikes cylindrical, or oblong, egg-shaped, or roundish. 



C. Pseudocyph'us. Bastard-cyperus C Sheaths 

 scarcely any. Pistil-bearing spikes dense, cylindrical, 

 drooping, many-flowered. Scales awl-shaped. Fruit 

 spreading, spear-shaped, furrowed, rough-edged, with a 

 deeply cloven beak. E. B. 242. Pseudo-cyperus. 

 G. E. 29. (Host, V. 1. 63. t. 85.) 



Wet, shady places ; margins of rivers and 2^onds. Sm. ** Ditch 

 bank at the foot of the bridge, in Binsey Lane. B.v. Ditches 

 near Eton, Bucks, not uncommon. Tttr. 



Per, June. 



