KOBRESIA.—CAREX. 353 
nearly sessile spike.—y. elatius (Koch); st. strong tall, 1. 2—3 
lines broad the triangular part commencing above the middle. E. 
polystachion Sm.—Bogs. 8. in mountamous districts. P. V. 
VI. Common Cotton-grass. 
5. E. latifolium (Hoppe); st. triquetrous in its upper half, 
peduncles scabrous, |. linear nearly flat contracted above the mid- 
dle into a triangular point, anth. equalling 4 of filament, nut ob- 
pyriform triquetrous.—R. viii. 292. E. pubescens Sm., E. B. 8. 
2633. E. polystachion E. B. 563.—A tall rather slender plant. 
L. about 2 lines broad, triquetrous point short. Several of the 
elegant spikes upon longish stalks which are not downy but sca- 
brous. Bristles 2 or 3 times as long as the spikes. Bogs, rather 
rare. P.V. VI. 
6. E. gracile (Koch) ; st. subtriquetrous, peduncles downy, 1. 
narrowly linear triquetrous, auth. equalling + of filament, nut 
oblong-linear triquetrous.—E. B. 8. 2886. R. viii. 290. E. tri- 
quetrum Hoppe, Sé. 10. 2.—A tall slender plant. Spikes about 
4, most of them on downy not scabrous stalks. Gl. with many 
ribs. Bristles about twice as long as the spike-—Bogs. Hagnaby, 
Yorkshire. White-moor Pond, Guildford. P. VI. VII. E. 
Tribe IIT. Elynee. 
9. Kosresia Willd. 
1. K. earicina (Willd.).—E. B. 1410. Schk. Rrr. 161. R. viii. 
193.—St. erect, 6—12 in. high. L. slender, shorter than the stem. 
Spikes 4—5, aggregated at the summit of the stem, 6—8-flow- 
ered. There is an abortive stam. (?) at the base of the nut, but 
some authors consider each fl. as a separate spike, and this as 
representing a second flower.—Moors. Yorkshire. Durham. 
Perthshire. P. VII. E.S. 
Tribe IV. Caricee. 
10. Carex Linn.! 
i, Monostachye. Spike simple, solitary. 
* Diecious. Stigmas 2. 
1. C. dioica (L.); fem. spike ovate dense, glumes obtuse, fr. 
1 In the description of the Carices fruit must be understood to mean 
the nut or true capsule covered by the persistent bottleshaped perigone, 
and it is to be examined when ripe. The glume described is always 
taken from the fertile spike unless it is otherwise stated. Schk. refers 
to the plates of Schkuhr’s Riedgraser ; H.to Hoppe’s Caricol. Germ. in 
Sturm Deutschl. Flora; and R. to Reichenbach Ic. Fl. Germ. Cent. viii. 
See also for an excellent Monograph Andersson’s Pl. Scand. 
