454 
97. CYPEEACE^. 
the middle into a triangular point, nut pyriform triquetrous. — 
E. B. 563. E. pubescejis Sm., E. B. S. 2633. E. latifolium 
CHoppe) R. viii^ 292.— A slender plant, 12—18 in. high. L. 
about 2 lines broad ; triquetrous point short. Several of the 
elegant spikes upon longish stalks -which are asperous. 
Bristles 2 or 3 times as long as the spikes. — Bogs, rather 
rare. P. V. VI. E. S. I. 
5. E. grac'ile (Roth) ; st. subtriquetrous, peduncle downy, I. 
narrowly linear triquetrous, nut ohXong-linear triquetrous. — 
E. B. S'. 2886. R. vii. 290. E. triquetrtim Hoppe, St. 10. 2.— 
A tall slender plant. Spikes about 4, most of them on downy 
not asperous stalks. Gl. with many ribs. Bristles about twice 
as long as the spike. — Bogs. Dorset. Hants. Surrey. Yorks. 
P. VI. VII. E. 
Tribe III. Elyiiece. 
9. KOBEESIA Willd. 
I. K.caricrna {^\i[\d.).~E.B.U10. 5cM.Rrr. 161. ^.viii. 
193. — St. erect, 6 — 12 in. high. L. slender, falling short of the 
stem. Spikes 4 — 5, collected at the top of the stem, 6 — 8- 
flowered. There is an abortive stam. (?) at the base of the 
nut : but some authors, considering each fi. a separate spike, 
think that this represents a second flower. — Moors. Yorkshire. 
Durham. Perthshire. P. VIT. E. S. 
Tribe IV. Caricece. 
10. Ca'eex Linn} 
i. Monostachyae. Spike simple, solitary, terminal. (Sp. 1 — 5.) 
* Dioecious or monoecious with male fl. at the top. Stigmas 2. 
1. C. dioica(L.) ; usually dioecious, fertile spike ovate dense, 
Jr. ascending ovate many -veined angles rough near the top, nut 
1 In the following descriptions, fruit means the persiatent bottle-shaped 
perianth, including the ripe nut or true capsule. The glumt is always taken 
from the fertile spike unless it is otherwise stated. — Schk. refers to the plates 
of Sehkuhr's Riedgraser ; H. to Hoppes Caricol. Germ, in Sturm Deutschl. 
Flora; R. to Reichenbach Ic. Fl. Germ. Cent, vii.; B. to Boott's lUust. of Carex. 
bee also Andersson's PI. Scand., and Lang in Linniea, xxiv. 4S1 ; and for form, &c., 
of the nuts Dts Moulins Cat. Dordogne, Suppl. Final. (See Mr A. Bennett's 
papers in J. oj £.] 
