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woods about Newchurcli, as in the Parsonage lynch, &c. In low pastures about 

 Newchurch, towards Hill farm, &c., 1846. Alverston lynch. Wet parts of Bord- 

 wood copse, abundantly. Bleak down. New copse, in very great abundance, 

 1840. Briddlesford copse, in abundance. In a marshy woodless than half a 

 mile S.W. of Combley farm, 1844. On a piece of marshy land close to Little 

 Duxmore, 1844. Very abundant in a marshy slip of ground skirting the arable 

 land, and between that and the grazing-fields just beyond the northern end of the 

 willow-bed E. of Bagwich farm, 1845. Wood between Bvde and Newport, D. 

 Turner, Esq., B. T. W. 



W. Med. — Common about Calbourne mill, and between it and Newbridge. 

 Root thick, creeping, reddish or blackish externally, knotty or tuberous, emit- 

 ting many stout fibres and sending up leafy suckers. Culms several, erect or 

 ascending, from about a foot to 2 feet high, solid, rather bluntly triangular, smooth 

 excepting between the uppermost fertile spike and the terminal barren one, where 

 it is furrowed, acutely angular and scabrous, with minute very sharp prickles 

 pointing upwards, invested below with a few short, brownish, acute, scale-like 

 sheaths, and the withered leaves of the former year, those of the current season 

 clothing the greater part of the remaining portion. Leaves much shorter than the 

 culm (in fruit), bright grass-green, slightly paler only beneath, firm, erect, more 

 or less recurved, finely pointed and tapering, strongly and acutely keeled, chan- 

 nelled and striated, rough-edged only near their tips, those at the root often of con- 

 siderable length, those of the stem and radical suckers short in comparison, 5 or 6 

 lines in breadth. Sheaths elongated, shorter than the peduncles, the uppermost 

 smooth, close and striated, those of the lower stem-leaves rather loose, white, 

 membranous, strongly ribbed and reticulated. Bracts foliaceous, rough-edged, 

 the lowermost distinguishable only by its greater length from the stem-leaf nearest 

 it, those succeeding far narrower, the uppermost being quite subulate. Staminate 

 spike solitary, terminal, erect, acute, slender and triquetrous, 1^ inch to 2J inches 

 long, its glumes for the most part acute, particularly towards the summit, tawny- 

 brown, with a green broad keel, mostly produced into a pointer mucro, but which 

 is wanting in some of the glumes, which are to be found both pointed and obtuse 

 or rounded on the same spike : sometimes all the glumes are obtuse, with very 

 pale keels, and are not to be distinguished by their shape from C. binervis. An- 

 thers yellow, their pellucid tips beset with spinulose points. Pistillate spikes 2 or 

 3, remote from the staminate one, erect, pale green and very slender when in 

 flower, more or less pendulous as fructification advances, on filiform smooth pe- 

 duncles, alwMvs much exceeding the sheaths and still more elongated in fruit, in 

 which state they are about twice as long as the sheaths. Glumes in the early 

 flowering state pale silvery green, ovato-lanceolate, with long, spinulose, edged points. 

 Stigmas 3, spreading. Perigyne longer than the glumes, smooth, tawny-green 

 when ripe, ovate, tumid and more or less triquetrous, the angles very obtuse and 

 often hardly discernible, with sevei'al more obscure facial ribs and one very 

 strong, greenish and double rib on each side, not always marginal, running up 

 into the long, flat, but not very narrow, deeply cleft beak, the points of which 

 are rough, with a few small spines sometimes extending lower than the bifurca- 

 tion. Nut filling a great portion of the cavity, turbinate, acutely triquetrous, 

 finely striato-punctate, greenish or yellowish, tipped with the base of the style. 



1 have found this species near Eyde subdioecions, a few specimens producing a 

 solitary, terminal, staminate spike, unaccompanied by any pistillate ones beneath 

 it. It is a later-flowering plant than C. binervis, scarcely coming into blossom 

 till quite the latter end of May. Mr. Leighton's figures of this species are 

 excellent. 



25. G. pallescens, L. Pale Sedge. "Barren spikelet 1 sessile, 

 fertile spikelets pedunculated oblong -cylindrical approximate 

 scarcely pendulous much longer than the very short sheaths, 

 bracteas foliaceous, fruit obovato-elliptical tumid striated obtuse 

 glabrous."— Br. Fl. p. 497. E. B. t. 2185. Host. Gram. Aust. i. 

 55, t. 74. 



