334 
CYPERACEiE. 
Bogs. /3. in mountainous districts, y. rather rare, more common 
in Ireland. P. V. VL 
5. E. latifolium (Hoppe) ; st. triquetrous in its upper half, 
peduncles scabrous, L linear nearly flat contracted above the mid- 
dle into a triangular point, nut obpyriform triquetrous. — E. B. 
2633. St. 10. E. pubescens Sm. — 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. Common Cotton-grass. 
6. E. yracile (Koch) ; st. somewhat triquetrous, peduncles 
downy, I. narrowly -linear triquetrous, nut oblong-linear triquetrous. 
— E. triqueirum Hoppe, St. 1 0. 2. — A tall slender plant. Spikes 
about 4, most of them on downy not scabrous stalks. Bristles 
about twice as long as the spike. — Bogs. Near Hagnaby, York- 
shire. Mr. Jos. Woods. White-moor Pond near Guildford. Mr. 
Borrer. P. VI. VII. E. 
Tribe III. Ehjnece. 
9. Kobresia Willd. 
I. K. caricina (Willd.) . The only species.— E. B. 1410. Schk. 
Car. Rrr. 161. — St. erect, 6 — 12 in. high. L. slender shorter 
than the stem. Spikes 4 — 5, aggregated at the summit of the 
stem, 6 — 8-flowered. There is often an abortive stam. (?) at the 
base of the nut. Some authors consider each fl. as a separate 
spike, and the rudiment as representing a second flower. Nees 
von Esenb. figures 2 scales to the perigone, but I have only seen 
one. — Moors. Yorkshire. Durham. Perthshire. P. VII. — E. S. 
Tribe IV. Caricea. 
10. Carex Linn. 1 
i. Spike simple, solitary. Stigmas 2. — * Diacious. 
1. C. dioica (L.) ; fir. ascending ovate many-nerved angles 
rough near the summit, nut roundish-oval, st. and 1. smooth, 
root creeping. — E. B. 543. Schk. A. 1. H. a. 1. — About 6 in. 
high. Sometimes the male plant produces a single fruit at the 
base of its spike. — Spongy bogs. P. V. VI. 
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. Excellent figures of these parts 
for nearly all our species will be found in Leighton's Fl. of Shropshire. 
The glume described is always taken from the fertile spike unless it is 
otherwise stated. Schk. refers to the plates of Schkuhrs Riedgruser, and 
H. to those of Hoppe's Caricologia Germanica. 
