Carex.] cypeeace^. 555 



lets are all a Utile compomid at the base, as is likewise the terminal one, those in 

 the centre simple or nearly so: in the early floweiing state the spikelets are 

 closely approximate or even crowded, nearly as much so as in C. muricata. Scales 

 very like those of C. muricata, but piiler, scarcely at all tinged with russet, and 

 with shorter points. Perigynes moderately spreading, longer than ihe glumes, 

 brownish Rreen, broadly ovate, plano-convex (not triquetrous), the thin iuflexed 

 margins forming a hollow rim to the anterior face, of a deeper green than the rest 

 of the fruit, with a few more or less distinct ribs, quite glabrous and smooth, ex- 

 cepting a few small distant serratures towards the apex of the gradually tapered 

 not very deeply cloven beak. Nut greenish or brownish, broadly elliptical or 

 nearly orbicular, much compressed, flatly and subtrigonously plano-convex, very 

 minutely punctato-striate, quite filling the cavity, tipped with the base of the 

 style. 



Similar as are the present and preceding species, there appear suflicient 

 grounds for keeping them distinct. Dr. Boott, than whom no one has studied 

 the genus Carex more assiduously and profoundly, writes me thus on the subject : 

 — " I think the habit of C. divulsa is different from C. muricata, and it is found in 

 countries of which C. muricata is not a native." Cdimilsahears also a strong gene- 

 ral resemblance to C remota, from which, however, it is readily known by its 

 larger size, much stouter habit, straight erect spikes, whose spikelets are far less 

 remote, larger and compound ; by the acutely triangular stem ; and, lastly, by 

 having three stigmas. 



" ** Spikelets sterile at their base." — Bab. Man. 



10. C. axillaris, Grooden. Axillary -clustered Carex. " Spike- 

 lets several, upper ones simple crowded, lower distant composed 

 of several crowded spiculte, fruit ovato-lanceolate plano-convex 

 tapering bifid serrated above, nut obovate with a beak, glumes 

 shorter than the fruit, root tufted, lower bract as long as or longer 

 than the spike." — JBaib. Man. p. 358. Br. Fl. p. 489. E. B. t. 

 993. 



In marshy places, wet woods, and by the margins of pools ; rare. Fl. May, 

 June. If. 



E. Med. — First found by me on the margin of a little pool in Apley wood, by 

 Ryde, May 28, 18;57. In the Parsonage lynch, Newchurch, with C. remola, in 

 tolerable plenty, 1843. In Church lane, Binstead, under the boundary-fence of 

 Quarr copse, 1843, in both places acciunpauied by C. remota.* [Little Small- 

 brook wood, A. G. More, Esq., Edrs.] 



11. C. Boe.nninghauseniana,i Weihe. Boninghaiisens Carex. 

 " Spikelets several, upper ones simple crowded, lower distant 

 composed of several spiculse, fruit lanceolate ]3lano-convex taper- 

 ing into an almost entire beak strongly serrated from the middle 

 (nut obovato-elliptical pointed ?), glumes equalling the fruit, root 

 tufted, tower bract as long as or longer than the spike." — Bab. 



presents itself in this island. I had considered it to be the C. axillaris. Good., 

 until my friend Dr. Bell-Salter pointed out to me the difference. 



* [In his Notes on the Plants of Hampshire, in the ' Phytologisl' for 1850, the 

 author expresses his doubts whether some of the above stations do not rather be- 

 long to the following species, which he was not conversant with at the time of 

 recording the stations. — Edrs."] 



f Named after C. M. F. Boninghausen, author of the 'Prodromus Florae Mo- 

 nasteriensis,' 1824 ; the spelling ought therefore to be as above, not Bajninghau- 

 siana, as it is frequently written. 



