392 



96. CTPERACE^. 



68. C. vesicdria (L.) ; fertile spikes 2- — 4 remote cylindrical, 

 bracts leaflike, fr. mate-conical mflafxd gradually narrowed into 

 a subulate bifid heakj- nut elliptic triangular, st, with acute angles. 

 —K B. 779. Schk. Ss. 106. H. b. 64 JR. 276.— St. 2 feet high, 

 triangular, roughish near the top. I;, rather broad, green. — /3. in- 

 voluta ; 1. narrow folded into a j^oylinder, midrib of gl. apiculate, 

 fr. narrower. — Wet bogs. ;8. Hale Moss, Manchester. Mr. J. 

 Sidebotham. Oongleton, Chesh. Mr. E. Wilson. P. V. E. S. I. 



69. C. palud'dsa (Good.) ; gl. of the barren spikes blunt, anth. 

 apiculate, fertile spikes cylindrical blunt,, bracts leaflike, fr. ob- 

 long-obovate compressed with a short bifid beak, nut roundish- 

 obovate triangular, sfc with acute angles. — E. B. 807. Schk. 

 Oo. 103. — St. 2 — S feet high, angles rough. L. broad. Fr. 

 sometimes recurved at the tip, stig., sometimes 2.^/3. spadicea ; 

 gl. of fertile spikes with a long rough' beak. — Wet places. 0. 

 Littlehampton, Suss. Mr. Mitten. P. V. B. S. I. 



70. C. ripdria (Curt.) ; gl. of the barren spikes acute, anth. 

 with a long Tpoint, fertile spikes acute cylindrical, bracts leaflike, 

 fr. oblong-ovate convex on both sides narrowed into a short broad 

 cloven beak, nut pyriforni triangular, st. with acute angles. — 

 E. B. 679. Schk. Qq. & Er. 105._ I[. b. 66.— St. 3-^ feet high, 

 angles rough. L. broader than in the preceding. — Wet places. 

 P. V. E. S. I. 



JJf Male spikes many. Bracts sheathing. 



\_C. hordeifor'mis (Wahl.) is said to have been found in For- 

 farshire by Don. It may have been sown accidentally and be 

 now extinct.] 



Index to the Carices. 



G. acuta, 27. 

 arapuUaoea, 67. 

 aquatilis, 29. 

 arenaria, 9. 

 atrata, 33. 

 axillaris, 18. 

 biuervis, 58. 

 Boenninghauseni^na, 



17. 

 'l)rizQides, IG. 

 Buxbauraii, 32. 

 oaespitosa, 26. 

 canescens, 22, 32. 

 ffiipilliiris, 40. 

 clandestina, 43. 

 oollina, 47. 

 curta, 22. 



curfa, 23. 

 Davalliana, 2. 

 depauperata, 60, 

 digitata, 44. 

 dioioa, 1. 

 distans, 57. 

 disticha, 8. 

 divisa, 7. 

 divulsa, 12. 

 Ehrhartiana, 

 elongata, 21. 

 erioetorum, 46. 

 exteusa, 54. 

 filiformis, 63. 

 flava, 52. 

 fulva, 55. 

 G-ebhardi, 21. 



13. 



Gibsoni, 30. 

 glauca, 50. 

 Gbodenovii, 30. 

 G-rahami, 66. 

 hirta, 64. 

 hordeiforrais, 70. 

 HornBobuchiana, , 

 humilis, 43. 

 incui'Ta, 6. 

 intermedia. 8. 

 involuta, l'8. 

 irrigua, 3S. 

 la'vigata, .'lO. 

 lagopina, 24. 

 lepidoearpa, 52. 

 hpoHna. 24, 25. 

 limosa, .'17. 



