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frequent in the county. Stems generally decumbent, weak, rough, 6 

 inches, to a foot high. Leaves bright-green, rough on the edges 

 and keel. Fertile spikes 2 or 3, roundish when in fruit. Glumes 

 broadly ovate, sharply mucronated. Fruit stalked, subglobose, with 

 a short bifid beak,downy. Nut subglobose,svibtYigoi\o$e, narrowed below. 



C. tomentosa, (Linn.) larger downy-fruited Carex. Engl. 

 Bot. t, 2046. Schk. F. 28. H. b. 28. Reich Icones, 263. 



Locality. Water-meadows. P. Fl. June. Area, * '* * * 5. 

 North Division. 



5. North-east District. Water-meadows at Merston Measey. 

 A well-marked and very rare species, no station but the above- 

 mentioned being known for it in Britain, where I have gathered it 

 for many successive seasons. Stems rough, triangular, about 1 foot 

 high. Leaves upright, flat. Barren spike lanceolate, bluntish, with 

 rust-coloured scales and green keels. Fertile spikes mostly 2, not 

 very distant, their glumes broadly obovate, acute. Fruit as long as 

 the scales, obovate, sub trigonous, narrowed below, clothed with a 

 short, dense, whitish down, which becomes tawny when ripe. Nut 

 blunt, trigonous, narrowed below, with a short beak, constricted at its 

 base. 



23. C. glauca, (Scop.) glaucous heath Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 1506. 

 Schk. O. P. 57, H. b. 22. Reich Icones, 269. C. recurva (Huds.). 



Locality. Moist pastures, heaths and moors. P. Fl. June. Area, 

 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. General in all the Districts. A very variable species. 

 Stems usually about 1 foot, sometimes 2 feet high. Leaves mostly 

 radical, very glaucous. Fruit closely placed, brownish when ripe, 

 closely dotted with suppressed points, often pellucid, punctate, when 

 young usually scabrous. Nut roundish-ovate, triangular. Readily 

 recognised by its extensively creeping rootstock, and very glaucous 

 foliage. 



24. Q.flava, (Linn.) yellow Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 1294. Schk. 

 H. 36, H. b. 22. Reich Icones, 273. 



Locality. In marshes, meadows and wet places. P. Fl. May, 

 June. Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Generally distributed throughout Wilts. 

 Stems 6 to 12 inches high, trigonous, smooth. Bracteas very 

 foliaceous, the lower one resembling the broad acuminate leaves. 



