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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



5. North-east District. " In a pond neai* Wotton Bassett Station/'' 

 Mr. C. E. Broome. Rare in Wilts. Steins 2 to 3 feet high, acutely 

 triangular. Male spike solitary. Fertile spikes 3 to 6, densely 

 flowered, upon long stalks, drooping. Glumes setaceous, scabrous. 

 Fruit ovate, lanceolate. Beak long, deeply cloven. Nut elliptic. 

 One of the best marked, and most beautiful of the genus. 



30. C. hirta, (Linn.) hairy Carex. Hammer Sedge. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 685. Schk. U. u. 108, H. b. 58. Reich Icones, 257. 



Locality. Wet pastures. P. El. May, June. Area, 1, 2, 3,4, 5. 

 In all the Districts. Stems 1 to 2 feet high, more or less hairy in 

 every part. Male spikes 2 or 3. Fertile spikes 2 or 3, remote, 

 cylindrical, stalked. Glumes elliptic-lanceolate, much acuminate. 

 Fruit hairy, oblong-ovate with a long beak, deeply bifid at the point. 

 Nut ohovate, narrowed below, triangular. C. hirta appears to be not 

 so frequent in the Southern as the Northern Districts of Wilts. 



31. C. ampullacea, (Good) slender-beaked bottle Carex. Engl, 

 Bot. t. 780. Schk. T. t. 107, H. b. 65. Reich Icones, 277. 



Locality. Very wet bogs. P. Fl. June. Area,l,***5. 

 South Division. 



1 . South-east District. " Neighbourhood of Salisbury/'' Mr. James 

 Hussey. 



North Division. 



5. North-east District. " Huish, near Marlborough/'' Marlb. 

 Nat. Hist. Report. Very local in Wilts. Stem bluntly triangular. 

 Leaves glaucous, channelled. Fertile spikes 2 to 3, distant, shortly 

 stalked. Fruit subglobose inflated, striate, suddenly contracted into a 

 long narrow beak bifid at the point. Nut obovate, triangular. 

 Differs from the next, C, vesicaria, in the smooth and nearly rounded 

 stem, in the channelled glaucous leaves, and in the fruit which is 

 brownish and not half so large, with a narrower beak, and of a | 

 different shape. 



32. C. vesicaria, (Linn.) short-beaked Bladder Carex. Engl. \ 

 Bot. t. 779. Schk. S. s. 106, H. b. 64. Reich Icones, 276. 



Locality. Bogs and marshes. P. Fl. May. Area,* * * * 5. 

 North Division. 



5. North-east District. " Reservoir, Swindon/' Mr. Robert Withers. 



