Lindl. Syn. p. 290. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 397. — Macr. Man. Brit. Bot. p. 253. — Sibtli. 
FI. Oxon. p. 31. — Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 206. — Thomps. PI. of Berry, p. 93. — Davies’ 
Welsh Bot. p. 88. — Purt. Midi. FI. v. ii. p. 446. — Relh. FI. Cant. (3rded ) p. 384. — 
Hook. FI. Scot. p. 268. — Grev. FI. Edin. p. 197. — FI. Devon, pp. 151 & 118. — 
Johnst. FI. of Berw. v. i. p. 202. — Winch’s FI. of Northumb. and Durh. p. 60. — 
Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p. 273. — Bab. FI. Bath. p. 55. ; Prim. FI. Sam. p. 105. — 
Dick. FI. Abred. p. 55. — Irv. Lond. FI. p. 91. — Luxf. Reig. FI. p. 80. — Cow. FI. 
Guide, p. 26. — Baines’ FI. of Yorksh. p. 115. — Leight. FI. of Shropsh. p. 463. — 
Mack. Catal. PI. of Irel. p. 81. ; FI. Hibern. p. 332. — Carex glauca, Scop. FI. 
Cam. v. ii. p. 223. — C. flacca, Schrel. Lips. Append, n. 669, fide Smith. — C. 
pendula, Schrel. Lips. p. 62. — C. limos, 0 . Leer’s FI. Herb. p. 201. t. 15. f. 3. — 
Trasus glaucus, Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 67. — Cyperoides palustre, spicis 
purpureo-spadiceis, tenuibus pediculis insidentibus, Scheuchz. Argros. p. 467. 
— Gramen cyperoides, foliis caryophylleis, spicis oblongis, e pediculis lon- 
gioribus pendulis, Ray’s Syn. p. 418. 
Localities. — In moist meadows, pastures, heaths, and woods; common. 
Root creeping, sheathed with purplish-brown scales. Culms 
f stems J upright, from eight inches to about a foot high, triangular, 
sea-green, scarcely rough in any part. Leaves chiefly from the 
root, partially recurved, broadish, pointed, very glaucous, especially 
on the underside, rough on the keel and the edges, not half so tall 
as the culms, much resembling the foliage of pinks or carnations. 
Bracteas leafy, the lowermost several inches long ; their sheaths 
very short, or scarcely any, crowned with rounded brown auricles. 
Sterile Catkins generally solitary, sometimes accompanied by a 
smaller one, and the upper portion of the upper fertile catkins 
frequently consists of sterile florets. Fertile Catkins 2, often 3, 
cylindrical, blunt, many-flowered, very dense, drooping as they 
ripen, and at length pendulous, each on a slender, smooth stalk, 
many times longer than its sheath. Scales egg-shaped, more or 
less acute ; chocolate-coloured, with a greenish rib. Scales of the 
Sterile Catkins usually inversely egg-shaped and blunt, dark brown, 
with a yellow rib ; sometimes they are partly acute, and even 
pointed. Stamens 3, (see fig. 3). Stigmas 3, on a short style, 
(see fig. 4). Perigynium ( Corolla of Smith) brownish when ripe, 
and then termed fruit, (see fig. 5), enclosing the seed, elliptical, 
or somewhat inversely egg-shaped, obtuse, bluntly triangular, tumid, 
minutely dotted or tuberculated, and with minute short bristly 
hairs or pubescence. Seed (figs. 6 & 7.) short, triangular, dark 
brown, with pale angles. 
Varieties occur in which the sheath of the lower fertile catkin 
is more elongated, and the peduncle very long ; the sterile catkin 
either solitary, and the fertile catkins entirely fertile ; or, with four 
completely sterile catkins, with half another ; though only one, 
compound at the base, consisting entirely of fertile florets. This 
last variely is Carex Micheliana of Smith, in Trans, of Linnean 
Society, vol. v. p. 270., FI. Brit. v. iii. p. 1004. ; and Engl. Bot. 
t. 2236. It has smooth fruit. See Engl. Fl. and Leight. FI. of 
Shropshire. 
