By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 



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This is at present the only locality recorded for this species in Wilts. 

 Stem 1 to 2 feet high triangular. Leaves usually broad, green. 

 Fertile sjjikes 2 to 3, remote, slightly drooping. Fruit ovate-conical, 

 inflated, gradually narrowed into a subulate beak, bifid at the point. 

 Nut elliptic, triangular. 



33. C. paludosa, (Good) lesser common Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 

 807. ScM. O. o. 103. 



Locality. In wet meadows and in ditches, and by the sides of 

 streams. F. Fl. May. Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Distributed throughout 

 all the Districts, but less common in the Southern than in the Northern 

 parts of Wilts. Stem 2 to 3 feet high, with rough angles. Leaves 

 very broad, rough. Fertile spihelets about 3, cylindrical obtuse, 

 erect. Glumes of the barren spikes blunt, of the fertile ones lance- 

 olate, acute. Fruit oblong, obovate, compressed, with a short bifid beak, 

 sometimes entire at the point. Nut roundish, obovate, triangular. 

 C. paludosa is often mistaken for C. acuta. 



34. C. riparia, (Curt) great common Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 5? '9. 

 SchL Q. q. and R. r. 105, H. b. 66. 



Locality. In wet meadows, and by the sides of ditches and 

 streams. P. Fl. May. Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Distributed more or less 

 in all the Districts. Very similar to the last, but with much broader 

 leaves and spihelets. U-hmes of the barren spikes acute, of the 

 fertile ones lanceolate, acuminate. Fruit oblong ovate with a short 

 deeply bifid beak, convex on both sides. Nut pyriform, triangular. 

 Distinguished from C. pahidosa by the acuminate glumes of the 

 sterile spikelets, and the conspicuously mucronate anthers. 



