402 97. CTPERACE^. 



tt Mak spikes many. Stigmas 3. Braats not sheathing. 



66. C. ampulldcea (Good.) ; fertile spikes 2—4 remote cylin- 

 drical erect stalked, bracts leaflike, fr. subglobose inflated sud- 

 denly narrowed into a long slender heak, nut obovoid triangular, 

 St. smooth with blunt angles.— H. B. 780. Schk. Tt. 107. H. b. 

 65. M. 277. — St. 1 — 2 feet bigh, trigonous. L. glaucous, chan- 

 nelled. — Very wet bogs. P. VI. E. S. I. 



67. C. vesicdria (L.) ; fertile spikes 2—4 remote cylindrical, 

 bracts leaflike, fr. ovoid conical inflated gradually narrowed into 

 a subulate bifid beak, nut elliptic triangular, st. with acute angles. 

 —E. B. 779. Schk. Ss. 106. H. b. 64. R. 276.— St. 2 feet 

 high, triangular, rougbish near the top. L. rather broad, green. 

 — (3. involuta ; 1. narrow folded into a ^-cylinder, midrib of gl. 

 apiculate, fr. narrower. Sy. E. B. 1681. — Wet bogs. |3. Hale 

 Moss, Manchester. Mr. J. Sidebotham. Congleton, Chesh. Mr. 

 E. Wilson. P. V. E. S. I. 



68. C.palwd6sa (Good.); gl. of the barren spikes blunt, anth. 

 apiculate, fertile spikes cyliudrical blunt, bracts leaflike, fr. ob- 

 long-obovate compressed with a short bifid beak, nut roundish- 

 obovate triangular, st. with acute angles.— jE. B. 807. Schk. 

 Oo. 103.— St. 2—3 feet high, angles rou^h. L. broad. Fr. 

 sometimes recurved at the tip, stig. sometimes 2. — ^. C. spa- 

 dicea (Elw., Eoth.); gl. of fertile spikes with a long rough 

 beak.— Wet places. P. V. E. S. 1. 



69. C. ripdria (Curt.) ; gl. of the barren spikes acute, anth. 

 with a long point, fertile spikes acute cylindrical, bracts leaflike, 

 fr. oblong-ovoid convex on both sides narrowed into a short broad 

 cloven beak, nut pyriform triangular, st. with acute angles. — 

 E. B. 579. Schk. Qq. & Rr. 105. IT. b. 66.— St. 3— 4 feet 

 high, angles rough. L. broader than in the preceding. — Wet 

 places. P. V. E. S. I. 



XXX Male spikes many. Bracts sheathing. 



[ C. hordeifor'mis (Wahl.) is said to have been found in For- 

 farshire. Perhaps accidentally sown.] 



Index to the Carices. 



C. acuta, 26. atrata, 32. Buxbaumii, 31. 



alpigena, 64. axillaris, 17. csespitosa, 25*. 



alpinA, 30. bineryis, 57. cwspitosa, 25, 29. 



ampullacea, 66. Boenninghauseniaua, canescens, 21. 



aquatilis, 28. 16. capillaria, 39. 



arenaria, 7. brizoides, 15*. ciliata, 46. 



