"iT)! c^TEEACEiE. [Carex. 



rough margins longer than the mucronate glumes, stem with 

 rough angles." — Br. Fl. p. 492. E. B. t. 1097. Host. Gram. 

 Aust. i. 41, t. 54. C. spicata, Huds. 



Tn moist gravelly pastures. Fl. May. If. 



E. Med. — Quail- copse, 1840. Iii the plantations under the cliff between 

 Shanklin and Cook's castle. Alongthe top of Parsonage Ijnch, Newcliurcli, 1841. 

 Abundant by the roadside between Bowbridge and Godshill, 1843. 



PF. 2¥eii.— By the roadside close to Gurnet farm, near Gurnet bay, in plenty, 

 18.38. 



Plant of a bright grass-green, 12 — 15 inches high. Root tufted, blackish and 

 fibrous. Stems several, naked above, acutely triangular, deeply furrowed, punc- 

 talo-striate, with rather convex faces, rough at the angles, especially in the upper 

 part. Leaves numerous, bright green, shorter or taller than the (lowering stems, 

 narrow, strongly keeled, striated, rough at their edges and keel, especially above. 

 Spikes about an inch lonjr, each composed of about 6 — 10 spiielets, the lowermost 

 of which are a little remote, the upper ones crowded, mostly simple or a little com- 

 pound, each subtended by an acute braclea, of which the lowermost is often 

 longer, the rest shorter, than the spikelels: the vpper florets of each spikelet 

 mostly staminate. Scales o\ato-lanceolate, mucronato-acuminale, brownish, with 

 broad green keels. Styles 2. Perigynes more widely spreading than in C. 

 divulsa, and distinguishable from those of that species only by the greater rough- 

 ness of the beak. Nuts exactly as in C. divulsa. 



9. C. dlnilsa, Gooden. Gray Sedge. " Spike elongated lax 

 consisting of 5 — 6 " " si^ikelets which are suhremote below 

 with pale membranous acute scales, fruit ovate acute suberect 

 obscurely nerved rough at the point with bkmt margins longer 

 than the mucronate glumes, stem with rough angles." — Br. Fl. p. 

 491. E. B. t. 629 (young). Schh. Car. p. 20, t. W. w. (copied 

 from Michfeli, but good.) Lcight. Slirops. Fl. (bona). Host. 

 Gram. Aust. i. 42, t. 55. 



In woods, on hanks and moist hedge-bottoms; very frequent. Fl. May, June. 



E. Med. — In many places about Hyde, close to the town, as in hedgerows 

 about the little Bar-ground and elsewhere. On the road towards Upton and 

 Ha\en street, near the direction. Plentiful, with C. remota, under hedges in the 

 lane that crosses the Newport road on Binstead hill, leading to Ninham and Fire- 

 stone copFe. By the roadside between Oakfield and St. John's. Quarr copse. 

 Near Osborne or New-barn farm, E. Cowes. Frequent on hedgebanks about 

 Newchurch, as by the roadside to Mersley, &c., 1844. 



W.Med. — In plenty on a low bank immediately facing the Lodge gate at West- 

 over, and by the roadside between Newbridge and Calbourue, &c. 



Root blackish, tufted, with long, stout, brownish fibres. Culms erect, 12 — 20 

 inches high, sharply ti-iangular, furrowed and minutely dotted, leafy only in their 

 lower half. Leaves bright green, narrow, as long as or exceeding the culms in 

 length, flattish, spreading in their upper part, roughish towards the tips, with 

 c]ose sheaths : the ligule o\ato-elli])tical, its free edges very entire and rolled 

 inwards. Spike solitary, terminal, erect, 2 or 3 inches long when in flower, of 

 6 — 10 or more ovate or lanceolate, erect, sessile, acute spikelels, of a pale silvery 

 green, the three nearest the base more or less remote, the first or lowermost being 

 often very widely separated from the second, and as frequently subtended by an 

 extremely long leafy bractea, far overtopping the ultimate spikelet, which I do not 

 remember to have seen in C. rauricala, the lower bracteas of which are, I think, 

 always far shorter and less leafy : in the specimens before* me the lower remote spike- 



* I am desirous of drawing attention to this form or variety of C. divulsa as it 



