Carex.] ctpeeace^. 669 



spikes slender drooping their scales spinous, perigyne triquetrous 

 attenuated upwards into a long beak cloven at the point. E. B. 

 t. 995. Br. Fl. p. 503. Host. Gram. Just. i. 62, t. 84. C. Dry- 

 meia, Ehrh. : Wahlenb. Fl. Suec. ii. p. 600. Lindl. Syn. 



In moist shady woods and groves ; extremely common. Fl. April, May. 2f . 



E. Med. — In Quarr copse. Woods at Apley. St. John's and most other 

 places about Ryde. 



Root consisting, as in the following species, of reddish brown fibres, but, as it 

 appears to me, more woody and creeping. Culms about as tall as C. strigosa, 

 but filled with pith in the centre, not hollow as in that species. Leaves similar in 

 all respects, but a little narrower. Staminate spike solitary ; its scales like those 

 oC C. strigosa, but their edges are tawny rather thau white, the central green rib 

 ftirnished with several minute spines pointing upwards, a character very unusual 

 in this genus, and I believe hitherto unnoticed. Perigyne rather longer than in 

 C. strigosa and much more ovate, triquetrous, with a strong nerve on each side 

 near the margin of the two outer faces, suddenly tapering into a long deeply bifid 

 beak, crowned with the three permanent styles. 



The present species, though a native of Sweden, is confined to the southern 

 parts of that country only. 



28. C. strigosa, Huds. ^ Loose Pendulous Sedge. Stems hol- 

 low, sheaths loose elongated nearly equal to the flower-stalks, 

 spikes slender erect or inclining, stjdes deciduous. 



" Barren spikelets solitary, fertile about 4 slender filiform loose- 

 flowered nearly erect, the lower stalks a little longer than the 

 elongated sheaths, upper about equal to their bracteas foliaceous, 

 glumes elliptic-lanceolate diaphanous with a green keel, fruit ob- 

 long-lanceolate acuminate at both ends nerved slightly recurved 

 truncated at the point, beak scarcely any, leaves rather broad." — 

 Br. Fl. p. 502. F. B. t. 994. Fl. Dan. vii. t. 1237. 



In groves and thickets. Fl. April, May. Fr. June, July. 2|.. 



JE. Med. — St. John's v/ooA, sparingly, 1840. In the wood nearest the sea, 

 skirting the marsh-meadows behind the Dover, abundantly,* 1843 (Monkton Mead 

 wood ?). In a wood by Little Smallbrook farm, near Ryde, 1840. Profusely at 

 the N. end of Smallbrook-heath copse, on the left side of Rosemary lane going 

 towards Aldermoor heath, being the last wood before arriving at the gate across 

 the road at the entrance of the heath, some specimens found having the pistillate 

 spikes compound at the base, 1844. It quite covers the ground by a wet plash 

 ox pool in the copse, requiring a moister soil than C. sylvalica. Abundantly in a 

 moist copse a little S.W. of Combley farm ; also found here with compound pis- 

 tillate spikes. [In the little wood between Smallbrook and Prestwood, through 

 which passes the footpath from Ryde to Brading, abundantly, Dr. Sell-Sailer, 

 Edrs.] 



W.Med. — In a wood between Swainston and Five Houses, but not observed in 

 any great abundance, being confined to one spot only, 1845. 



Closely resembling the preceding species. Root of many pale reddish fibres. 

 Culms numerous, ascending, hollow, a foot or 18 inches high, forming a dense 

 tufted herbage, bluntly 3-oornered. Leaves numerous, sheathing, bright grass- 

 green, exactly like those of C. sylvatica, but rather broader, with somewhat shorter 



* [This station is now thrown open by the new road just made (1855) at St. 

 John's by Sir John Simeon. On going up the hill it may be observed in great 

 abundance on the right-hand side, about 20 yards from the commencement of the 

 wood, Dr. Bell-Salter, Edrs.] 



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