376 96. cYPEEACE^. 



not asperous stalks. Gl. with ihany rihsi Bristles about twice 

 as long as the spike. — Bogs. HalnaW, Yorkshire. Whitemoor 

 Pond, Gmlifor(l."P. VI. Vn." " E. 



Tribe III.. Elynece. 

 ::.[ ' .■ I 9. Kobke'sia TFiZW. 



1. K caridna (Willd.).— .£:. S. 1410. Schk. Err. 161. JR. viii, 

 103. — St, 'erect,; 6 — 12 in. high. , L, slender, falling short of the 

 stem. Spikes 4--5,, collected at the top of the stem, 6 — 8-ilow- 

 ered. There is an abortive stain; (?)' at the' base of the nut ; but 

 some' authors, considering each S. a separate spike, think that 

 ■this r^prestots a second flower. — Moors. Yorkshire. Durhaim. 

 Perthshire. P. VII. ' ' ' ' E;S. 



Tribe IV. Caricea. 



, 10. CA'EExZmra.' 



■i. Monostachyes. Spike simple, solitary, terminal. (Sp. 1 — 5). 



* JMceciotis; Stigmas 2. 



1. C.dioica (L.) ; fertile spike ovate dense, /r. ascending ovate 

 many-veined ' angles rough neai' the- top, nut roundish oval, 

 terete st. and 1. roughish, soboliferous. — E. B. 543. Sclik. A. 1. 

 H. a. 1. JR. 194.' — About 6 in. high. Sometimes the male spike 

 has fruits at its base. — Spongy bogs. P.: V. VI. E. S, I. 



[2. G Davallidna (Sm.) ;/?•. defiexed ovate-lanceolate angles 

 rough near the top, nut "linear-qblong," st. and margins of the 

 1. rough, eesspitose.— ^. JB. 2123. if. 194.— About 6 in. high,— 

 Lansdown near Bath : now lost by drainage. P. VI.] E. 



**v Spike male at the top. Stigmas 2. 



3, C. pnlicdris (L.) ; half of spike male, /r., remote at length 

 <%^<u:e(^oblong-lanoeolate compressed, nut linear-oblong plane- 

 convex.— -E. S. 1051. Schk. A. 3, H. a. 3. S. 195,— St, 

 slender, 6 — 12 in, or more in height, erect, smooth. L, slender, 

 erect. Glumes deciduous, Fr. dark brown, — Bogs. . P. VI. 



• ., I ■■ .: ' ■■ E.S.I. 



1 111 the following deaoripfcions, fruit mdajia the persistent bottle- 

 shaped „perianth, includiugthe ripe mit or true capsule. Theglumeia 

 always taken from the fertile spike unless it is otherwise stated. Schk. 

 refers to theplates of Schkuhr's Biedgrdser ; H. to Hoppe's Caricol. 

 Germyin Stwr'-nk Beut^Kl. Fl&t'd\h'a6.'E.lo Seichenbach to: Fl. Germ. 

 Cent. vii. ■ See also for excellent Monographs Andersson's PI. Scdnd., 

 and Lang in LiitntBd, XiiV, 481; for an account of the form, &o., of 

 the nuts Des MouUm Cat. des Fhanetvg. de .la Dordogtie, Suppl. Final. 



