Career.] cypeeace.e. 557 



(For still more minute and very accurate descviplion of fruit see Kiinze ut 

 supra). 



12. C. remota, L. Distant-spiked Sedge. " Spikelets several 

 (small) sterile at their base very distant, fruit longer than the 

 glume oblong-ovate shortly acuminate plano-convex acute angu- 

 lar bifid at the point, bracteas very long and narrow leafy reach- 

 ing beyond the spike." —Br. Fl. p. 489. E. B. i. 833. Host. 

 Gram. Aust. i. 40, t. 52. 



In moist woods, thickets, and under hedges ; very common. FL May, June. 



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E. Med. — Common about Kyde, particularly in the lane that intersects the 

 Newport road (Binstead Cross) between Binstead and Ninliam. Common in 

 Quarr copse. Very abundant in a boggy copse close to Prestwood, near Ryde, 

 1849. Abundant in Cleveland wood, Appuldurcombe; and in Marshcombe 

 copse, about the middle pouls, 1843. Piolusely in the Parsonage lynch, New- 

 church, 1843. Briddlesford copse, most abundantly. New copse, near Wootlon 

 bridge. Yarbridge. Marshy wood a liille S.W. of Combley farm, 1844. 



W. Med. — In a copse a little N.N.W. of Freshwater church, called Hookhill 

 copse, or by the country people Copse-lane copse, in plenty, 1844. 



A very slender species, growing in dense lufls. ^oorfibrous, partly creeping. 

 Culms erect, slender, 12 — 18 inches high, hollow, somewhat triangular, but much 

 less so than in most species of the genus, one angle chiefly being prominent, the 

 others rounded off or nearly obsolete ; smooth except quite close to the summit. 

 Leaves bright grass-green, very narrow, erect, about a line in width, roughish 

 chiefly towards the points, as long as or longer than the culms, a little spreading or 

 recurved. Liyule somewhat poiflted, with broad free edges. Spikelels several, 

 pale greenish, quite sessile, ovato-lanceohite, acute, not ^ an inch long, the 3 or 4 

 lowermost an inch or more asunder, the lowest of all with a very long, leafy, 

 rough-edged bractea taller than the stem, the uppermost approximate, smaller and 

 with scarcely any bracteas. Sheaths none. Scales ovato-acute, pale, a little 

 tawny, with broad silvery edges and a green dorsal line or keel. Staminate 

 florets few in the lower part of each spikelet. Anthers pale yellow, erect. Pistil- 

 late florets mure numerous. Stigmas 2, slender. Fruit pale green, about as long 

 as or somewhat exceeding the scales in length, compressed, plano-convex, taper- 

 ing to a shortrough-edged beak, a little cloven at the apex. 



13. C. stellulata, Gooden. Little Prickly Sedge. " Spikelets 

 few (3 — 4) sterile at their base roundish distant, fruit ovate much 

 attenuated plano-convex acute angular spreading rough at the 

 margin." — Br. Fl. p. 488. E. B. t. 806. Host. Gram. Aust. i. 

 41, t. 53. 



In boggy marshy places, wet woods, &c. ; frequent. J'V. May, June. 2^. 



E. Med. — Abundant on the skirts of I,ake common, and in Sundown level, &c. 

 Plentiful in New copse, near Wootton. Abundant in boggy meadows about the 

 Wilderness. Rookley moor. Bleak down, in plenty. 



Whole herb bright green and glabrous. Root densely tufted with numerous 

 whitish fibres, but not creeping. Culms numerous, erect only a few (3 or 4) 

 inches high when in flower, and at that time shorter than the leaves, afterwards 

 rising to 6, 8, 10, or even 12 inches, and equalling the latter or the greater part 

 of them in length, bluntly triangular, with rounded or convex faces, roughish be- 

 low the spike only. Leaves numerous, extremely narrow, channelled and tapering, 



Quarr copse, our author had subsequently considerable doubts as to the spe- 

 , cilic distinctness of this plant and C. axillaris. Vide Phytol. iii. pp. 1063, 

 1064.— £■(£»■*.] 



