By TJiomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 91 



and Berks Canal. " Reservoir; Swindon, and near Ramsbury," 

 Marlb. Xat, Hist. Report. " Savernake Forest/' Miss Meredith. 

 Stems about a foot high, with 3 sharp, rough angles ; Leaves sheath- 

 ing the lower part of the stem, and about equal to it in height. 

 Spihelets about 6, collected into an oval more or less compaet spike. 

 Fruit ovate, acuminate, plane, eonvex, narrowed below, bifid at the 

 point, with membranous edges, serrate above. Xut elliptic, with a 

 short, cylindrical beak. Glumes concealing the fruit, variable as to 

 the approximation of the spikelets, the lower ones in luxuriant 

 specimens being more or less distant and spreading*. 



11. C. striata, (Good) straight-leaved Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 914. 

 Reich Ieones, 230. C. aespitosa, Hooker. 



Locality. Marshes. F. Fl. June. Area, * * * * 5. 



North Division. 



5. North-east District. At Purton by the Wilts and Berks Canal. 

 Perhaps not rare in the county, although at present confined to the 

 above locality. Densely eeespitose. Ste >s erect, about 2 to 3 feet 

 high, triquetrous, rigid. Leaves erect, narrow-linear, glaucous, their 

 sheathing bases reticulated with filaments. Spikes long, erect. 

 Glumes blunt or acute, dark-brown. Fruit oblong, elliptic, acute, 

 disposed upon the spikes in ? or S rows. Xut roundly obovate, 

 shortly beaked. The very erect habit will distinguish this species 

 from those with which it is most likely to be confounded. 



12. C. acuta, (Linn.) slender-spiked Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 5S0. 

 Sehh. E. e. d. F. f. 92, H. a. 11. Reich Lcones, 231, 232. C. 

 gracilis, Curtis. 



Locality. On the banks of ditches, and in wet meadows and 

 pastures. F. Fl. June. Area. * * 3, 1, 5. 



South Division. 



3. South-west District. " Coombe Bissett," Mr. James JIusse t . 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. By the side of the brook between Box 

 and Weevern. 



5. North-east District. Banks of the Wilts and Berks Canal 

 near Morden. Bare and local in Hilts. Stent 2 to 3 feet high, 

 very sharply triangular, rough on the edges. / ves rather broad. 



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