•508 CYPEEACE.T5. [Cctrex. 



In moist woods, meadows, &c. Fl. May, June. 2^. 



E. Med. — Plentiful iu the drier and more open parts of New copse, nearWoot- 

 ton bridge. Abundantly in Dunnage copse, not far from Briddlesford farm, 1841. 

 Stroud wood, between Alderraoor mill and Coppid hall, 1841. A few specimens 

 found in a wood near Apley, -Tlfr. Thos. Meehan, 1845!! 



Root tufted, with numerous whitish or brownish filu'es, scarcely at all creeping. 

 Culms erect, 1 — 2 feet high, slender, acutely triangular, striated, roughish only 

 just towards the summit, leafy for about ^rd of its length, either quite naked from 

 thence to the top or with a solitary remote leaf at fths of the entire height, when 

 fully grown much exceeding the leaves in length. Leaves grass-green, the lower- 

 most one on the stem very short, those above lengthening as they rise, the upper 

 ones and those of the barren shoots long, narrow, tapering, grooved and spreading 

 or recurved ; their close, pale and ribbed sheaths downy with short spreading hairs, 

 that partially clothe the inferior leaves, the superior being usually quite glabrous. 

 Bracts leafy, erect, with hardly any sheaths, the lowermost largest and overtop- 

 ping the spikes, that of the staminale spike very minute, with scariose sheathing 

 edges : in all the numerous specimens before me the bracts are plaited or puckered 

 at the back just above their very short sheaths. Stmninate spike solitary (rarely 

 2), terminal, erect, about ^ an inch long, linear and triquetrous. Pistillate spikes 

 2 or 3, the two highest approximate, the uppermost one on a very short stalk or 

 even nearly sessile, the third when present usually very remote and on a much 

 longer very slender peduncle; all when in fruit oblongo-cylindrical, obtuse, pale 

 green, scarcely more than ^ an inch long, finally drooping; their sea/es broadly 

 ovato-acuminate, much shorter than the fruit, p^le greenish dashed with tawny- 

 brown, shining and silvery on the edges, the midrib green on both sides. Peri- 

 gyne sessile, pale green, shining and quite glabrous, ovato-oblong, obscurely tri- 

 gonate, many-ribbed and very obtuse, tipped with a minute, very abrupt, blackish 

 and entire point. Nut turbinate, bluntly triangular and 3-ribbed, tipped with 

 the permanent base of the style. 



26. C. panlcea, L. Pink-leaved Sedge. " Barren spikelet soli- 

 tary, fertile ones about 2 snbcj'lindrical lax - flowered distant 

 stalked, the stalks longer than the close elongated sheaths, hrac- 

 teas leafy, fruit subglobose somewhat inflated obtuse glabrous 

 with a short terete truncate beak." — Br. Fl. p. 499. E. B. t. 

 1505. Host. Gram. Aust. i. 59, t. 79 (optima). 



fi. Fruit more oblong or elliptical and pointed. 



In watery boggy places on heaths and cominons. Fl. April, May. If. 



E. Med. — Wet places on the skirts of Lake common. Plentiful on most parts 

 of Bleak down, 1842. On Wootton common, plentifully. Marsh-meadow near 

 the upper end of Brading harbour, near the sluice, abundant. On a piece of wet 

 land close to Little Duxmore, 1844. 



W. Med. — Abundant in the tnarsh at Easton, 1845. 



/3. On the bog upon Colwell heath, 1844. 



Perigynes as long as or mostly a little longer than the glumes, sometimes con- 

 siderably so, erecto-patent, lower ones a little remote ; greenish brown or at length 

 blackish, ovato-globose and inflated, obscurely triquetrous, minutely punctulato- 

 striate, glabrous, with a strong, lateral, greenish rib, and several less apparent 

 ones, terininating in the short, somewhat curved, entire and obliquely truncate 

 apex. Nut obovate, subglobose, bluntly triquetrous, greenish brown, finely reti- 

 culato-striate, smooth and shining, tipped with the base of the style. 



Very much resembling C. glauca, from which the elongated sheaths and up- 

 right instead of drooping fertile spikes afford a ready distinction. 



" ft Fertile spikes elongated." — Bab. Man. 



27. C. sylvatica, Huds. Pendulous-spiked Wood Sedge. Stem 

 solid, sheaths close about half the length of the flower -stalks, 



