562 rvPEEAnE^. [Carc.i.. 



" iv. Terminal spike barren, solitary. Stigmas 3. 



" * Fruit glabrous. 

 "■f- Fertile spikes short, mostly erect." — Bab. Man. 



19. G.flava,!!. Yellow Sedge. "Sterile spikelet cylindrical 

 obtuse, fertile spikelets roundish-oval nearly sessile, lowest with 

 a nearly included stalk, glumes obtuse, bracteas very leafy, fruit 

 obovate turgid ribbed spreading with a long more or less deflexed 

 beak bifid at the point, stem bluntly triangular smooth. — a. Ste- 

 rile spikelets distinctly stalked, fertile rather distant, beak of fruit 

 deflexed."' — Br. Fl. p. 497. E. B. t. 1294 (var. lepidocarpa, teste 

 Boott in litt.) Host. Gram. Aust. i. 48, t. 63 ?* 



/3. CEderi. " Spikelets all approximated, beak of fi-uit straight." — Br. Fl. C. 

 CEderi, Ehrh.: E. B. t. 1773? (pavva var. tantum C. flavaB testante Boott). 

 Host. Gram. Aust. i. 49, t. 65. 



In bogs and marshy meadows ; frequent. Fl. May, June. Fr. July. 2f . 



E. Med. — On a piece of wet land close to Little Duxniore farm, in plenty, 

 1844. On the marshy skirts of Lake common. 



W. Med. — Bogs at Cockleton. Abundant on the boggy part of Colwell heath, 

 1844. 



j3. About Ryde, near Fishbourne and Ninham farm. New copse, near Woot- 

 ton bridge, 1841. Near Thorley, 1838. Wood between Bvde and Newport, D. 

 Turner, Esq., B. T. W. (given as a var. of C. extensa). Bog at Blackpan and 

 Burnt House, Dr. Bell-Salter, 1844. 



I can find no real difference between C.flava and C. CEderi but in the want of 

 a curvature to the beak of the perigynes. The staminate spike, being almost ses- 

 sile, given as a specific character by Hooker, is assuredly inconstant, nor is it so 

 represented in E. B. except in the smaller right-hand uncoUiured fij^ure ; and in 

 my specimens the sterile spike is distinctly as in Sowerby's plate. 1 find it indeed 

 both sessile and stalked in plants near Ninham farm, by Byde. (For further 

 remarks on C CEderi see Hook. Br. Fl. 4th ed. p. 338). 



I am happy to have the valuable testimony of my friend. Dr. Boott, in corrobo- 

 ration of my own more limited experience of the inconstancy of any characters 

 between C.flava and C. CEderi. The Doctor observes in a letter to me, Nov. 

 1847: — "Since Linnaeus established C.flava two species have been made out of 

 it, viz. C. CEderi and C. lepidocai-pa ; hence it is a question what C.flava is." 



20. C. extensa, Gooden. Long Bracteated Sedge. " Sheaths 

 very short (scarcely any) with extremely long foliaceous bracteas, 

 fertile spikelets , nearly sessile oblong, glumes sessile mucronate, 

 fruite ovate ribbed with a short straight smooth acuminated beak 

 bifid at the point, leaves very narrow, stem smooth." — Br. Fl. p. 

 497. E. B. t. 833. Fl. Dan. x. t. 1709. Host. Gram. Aust. i. 

 55, t. 73. 



In muddy salt-marshes and meadows by the sea, in several places. Fl. June. 

 Fr. September. If. 



E. Med. — Moist sandy ground amongst rushes on St. Helens spit, in some 

 plenty. Shores of the Wootton river. 



W. Med. — Frequent along the Yar between Norton and Freshwater mill, 



* The fig. in Host's Gram. Aust. resembles, in its tall slender habit and very 

 small perigynes, a plant I have received from Dr. Boott, under the name of C. 

 CEderi, from the Falls of Niagara, and which Dr. B. is inclined to consider dis- 

 tinct from the European plant so denominated. 



