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Watery meadows, borders of pools and ditches. At Virginia Water, 



Windsor Forest. Bp. of Carlisle. Sm. E, Flora. 

 Per. June. 

 One foot. Spikes short, of a silvery hue. Sm. 



Carex Oederi. Oederian Carex. Sheaths and flower- 

 stalks all very short. Fertile spikes, roundish-egg- 

 shaped. Fruit globular, triangular, direct, smooth, 

 with a straight cloven beak. Stem smooth. E. B. 



1773. 



Wet comm.ons. See Piirt. Flora. 



Per. July. 



Of humble growth, and less yellow than C. tlava. Sm. 



Carex fulva. Tawny Carex. Sheaths tubular, length- 

 ened out, shorter than the flower-stalks. Fertile spikes, 

 egg-shaped, erect. Scales pointless. Fruit egg-shaped, 

 triangular, direct, smooth, with a straight, cloven, 

 rough-edged beak. Stem rough. E. B. 1295. 

 Schk. Car. 101. t. T. 67. 



Boggy meadows. Virginia Water, Windsor Forest. Rev. Dr. 

 Goodenough, in Tur. 



Per. June, July. 



Slender, twelve to fifteen inches. Spikes tawny brown. Fruit 

 brownish. Sm. 



Carex binervis. Green ribbed Carex. Sheaths tubular, 

 lengthened out, shorter than the flower-stalks. Fertile 

 catkins cylindrical, distant ; partly compound. Scales 

 pointed. Stems smooth. Fruit with two principal 

 ribs. E. B. 1235. Schk. Car. t. R. r. r. 160. 

 (Schkur's Carices is styled by Smith an admirable and 

 most correct work.) 



Dry heaths. Black Park. Windsor Great Park, Berks. Tur. 



Per, June, 



Larger and stouter. Spikes blackish. Sm. 



Carex IcEvigdta. Smooth-stalked Beaked Carex. Spikes 

 cylindrical ; fertile ones stalked. Scales all pointed. 

 Sheaths very long. Fruit triangular, with a cloven 

 beak. E. B. 1387- Schk. Car.^t. S. ss. 162. V^illd. 

 C. patula. Ibid, t, B. b. b. 1 1 6. C. sethiopica. Ibid. 

 107. t. Z. 83. 



Marshes and boggy thickets. Bog in Great Windsor Park. Tur. 



Per. June. 



Bright green, smooth, three feet. Fruit green. Sm. 



