386 97. CTPEEACEiE. 



as long as the spike.— Bogs. Halnaby, Yorkshire. Whitemoor 

 Pond, Guildford. P. VI. VII. E. 



Tribe III. Elynem. 



9. Kobke'sia Willd. 



1. X canctma (Willd.).— -B. 5. 1410. -ScA;^. Rrr. 161. iB.viii. 

 193. — St. erect, 6 — 12 in. high. L. slender, falling short of the 

 stem. Spikes 4 — 5, collected at the top of the stem, 6.— 8- 

 flowered. There is an abortive stam. (?) at the base of the 

 nut ; but some authors, considering each fl. a separate spike, 

 think that this represents a second flower. — Moors. Yorkshire. 

 Durham. Perthshire. P. VII. E. S. 



Tribe IV. Caricea. 



10. Ca'eex Linn.^ 



i. MonostachycE. Spike simple, solitary, terminal. (Sp. 1 — 5.) 



* Dioecious or moncecious with inalejl. at the top. Stigmas 2. 



1. C. dioica (L.) ; usually dioecious, fertile spike ovate dense, 

 fr. ascending ovate many-veined angles rough near the top, nut 

 roimdish oval, terete St. and subsetaceous 1. roughish, sobo- 

 liferous.- ^. B. 643. Schh. A. 1. H. a. 1. R. 194.— About 6 in. 

 high.— Spongy bogs. P. V. VI. E. S. I. 



[2. C. Davallidna (Sm.) ; dioecious, fr. deflexed ovate-lan- 

 ceolate angles rough near the top, nut " Hnear-oblong," st. and 

 margins of the siibsetaceous 1. rough, csespitose. — B. B. 2123. 

 -ffi. 194. — About 6 in. high. — Lansdown near Bath : now lost by 

 drainage. P. VI.] E. 



3. C pulicdris (L.) ; half of spike male, fr. remote at length 

 defiexed, oblong-lanceolate compressed, nut linear-oblong plane- 

 convex, 1. involute.—^. B. 1051. SchTi. A. 3. S. a. 3. B. 195. 

 — St. slender, 6 — 12 in. or more in height, erect, smooth. L. 



1 In the following descriptions, fruit means the persistent bottle- 

 shaped perianth, including the ripe nut or true capsule. The glume 

 is alwa,.ys taken from the fertile spike unless it is otherwise stated. — 

 SchJe. refers to the plates of Schlcuhr's Siedgrdser ; H. to Hoppe's 

 Caricol. Germ, in Sturm Beuischl. Flora ; and R. to Eeichenbach 

 Ic. Fl. Germ. Cent. vii. ; B. to Bootfs Must, of Carex. See also 

 Andersson's PI. Scand., and Lang in Linrxsa, xiiv. 481 ; and for form, 

 ke.. of the nuts Des Moulins Cat. Dordogne, Suppl. Final. 



