Caresc.] cypeeace/E. 573 



the upper ones shorter than the spikes they subtend, without sheaths. Staminate 

 spike not an inch long, solitary, erect, linear, pointed and triangular ; its scales 

 lanceolate, acute, tawny, with whitish membranous edges and a sharp green keel. 

 Pistillate spikes 2 — 4, quite sessile, in a cluster at the base of the barren one, the 

 lowermost, when more than two are present, a little remote from the rest, roundish 

 when in seed, from whence, and not from the form of the fruit, the rather inap- 

 plicable name of pilulifera is derived. Scales broadly ovate, very sharply pointed, 

 their keel much broader and greener than in the staminate spike, a little exceed- 

 ing the fruil in length. Perigyne roundish ovate, somewhat inflated, downy, of 

 a green colour, and tapering into a short brown beak entire at the point. iVui 

 yellowish, globose, a little pointed, finely punctate. 



" V. Terminal spikes barren, 2 or more; stigmas 3. 

 " * Fruit downy." — Bab. Man. 



33. G. glauca, ScoTp. Glaucous Sedge. " Barren spikelets 1 — 3, 

 fertile 2 — 3 cylindrical or ovate at length drooping densely 

 flowered on long slender stalks, sheaths short scarcely any, brac- 

 teas foliaceous, glumes ovate, fruit obovato-globose scabrous or 

 smooth, beak very short entire." — £r. Fl. p. 502. C. recurva, 

 Hucls. : Sm. E. B. t. 1506. C. flacca, Retz. : Host. Gram. Aust. 

 i. 66, t. 90. 



A prevailing and abundant species in moist woods, meadows, pastures and 

 hedges. Fl. April — June. Fr. June, July. If.. 



In Quarr copse, and everywhere else about Ryde, plentiful. 



Perigyne dark purplish brown, almost black when ripe, obovate, very obtuse, 

 almost globose, rough with minute warty granulations or shagreened, greenish 

 towards the apex, where it suddenly terminates in a short, truncate, nearly entire 

 point. Nut triquetrous, punctato-striate, with a flat apex. 



In two specimens of C. glauca I found the summit of one of their fertile spikes ; 

 in the first a diandrous male floret, each of whose filaments was tipped with a 

 double erect anther; on the other spike was a monandrous floret, with the filament 

 cleft and bearing a single erect anther on each fork. 



It is singular that this very common European species, which does not appear 

 to be rare in Sweden, should have been overlooked and undescribed by Linnaeus. 



34. C.hirta,Ij. Hairy Sedge. " Hairy, barren spikelets 2 — 3, 

 fertile 2 — 3 distant stalked nearly erect cylindrical, sheaths elon- 

 gated, bracteas long foliaceous, glumes elliptic -lanceolate much 

 acuminate ciliate towards the point, fruit oblong-ovate with a long 

 beak deeply bifid at the point." — Br. Fl. p. 505. E. B. t. 685. 

 Host. Gram. Aust. i. 71, t. 96 (prsestantior). 



/3. Pistillate spikes compound at the base. 



In moist woods, meadows, marshes, and by ditchbanks ; frequent. Fl. May, 

 June. Fr. July. 2^. 



E. Med. — About Ryde, not uncommon. Sandown marshes, Bonchurch. 

 Meadows between French mill and Bobberstone. Very fine and abundant on 

 the edge of the little pool near the pheasantry, Steephill, 1845. Common in 

 moist meadows about Newchurch. Meadow at Yarbridge, abundantly. 



W. Med.— In the Cyperus meadow at Apes down, abundantly. Common along 

 the course of the stream from Calbourne to Newbridge. In some swampy mea- 

 dows a little above Newbridge towards Westover, abundantly, 1844. Plentiful 

 in the marsh at Easton, 1846. Banks in Totland bay, B. T. W. 



ji. By the stream-side just above Calbourne mill, 1840. 



Easily known by its copious hoary pubescence, and the very long tapering 

 glumes of the pistillate spikes, which are pale green, with a transparent membra- 



