Localities.— On turfy boss, and in wet pastures; not common.— BerLr ; 
Rullmarsh Heath ; and bog in Windsor Great Park.— Beds ; Amplhill Moor; 
Potton ; and Aspley.— Bucks ; East Burnham Common; and lvcr Heath. — 
Cambridgesh. Boggy ground near Gamlingay Park. — Cheshire ; On almost all 
the bogs. — Cornwall; On the heath by Kynance Cove; and between St. Mi- 
chael’s and Gorse Moor. — Cumbl . Side of the river Gelt; by Crummock-water; 
bogs at the foot of Hellvellyn, &c. and Ullock Moss. — Devon ; Bovey Heath- 
field ; Woodbury Hill; and Shute Common — Dorset; Common on the bogs 
of Wateham, Canford, and Poole heaths. — Durham; On Beamish Moor. — 
Hants; Common about Southampton. —Kent ; On all the bogs on Ashdown 
and Walerdown Forests, and on the bog near Mr. Sloper’s. — Lancash. On all 
the moors of this county. — Leieestersh. Between Beacon Hill, and the Outwoods 
on Charley Forest. — Norfolk ; Belton Bog, in plenty. Felthorp Bogs; and near 
Heydon. — Northumbl. Prestwick Car; and on the Muckle Moss. — Salop; 
Bomere Pool ; and Twyford Vownog, near West-felton. — In Somersetshire. — 
Stajffbrdsh. In Chartlev Moss. — Suffolk; Belton.— Surrey ; Bagshot Heath; 
between Chobham and Shrubs- hill ; in a large bog between Wickham and Croy- 
don ; and on Shirley and Esher Commons. — Sussex; On the great bogs on 
Ashdown Forest; Chailey Common ; Tilgate and St. Leonard’s Forests; Aber- 
ley Wild Brooks, and other bogs near Washington Common ; also in Waterdown 
Forest. — Warwicksh. On Birmingham Heath ; near Packington; and in a bog 
below Coleshill Pool. — Westmoreland ; Common in this county. — Yorksh. 
Near Richmond; Lakeby Car; Terrington Car; and Black Moor, between 
Leeds and Harrowgate.— W A LES. Caernarvonsh. Bog west of Dolbadern 
Castle, near Llanberris ; peat-bogs among the hills, not rare. — Denbighsh. By 
the side of the old road ftotn Capel Gerig to Llanrcost, in an enclosure above 
Pencraig House. — Flintsh. Boggy fields between Plasnewydd in Rhyl and 
Rhyd Marsh near Rhyddlan. — Glamorgansh. Cromlyn Bog, near Swansea. — 
SCOTLAND; more or less frequeut in the counties of A r gyle ; Dumbarton; 
Dumfries ; Elgin; Forfar ; Kirkcudbright ; Lanark; Ross; and Suther- 
land. — IRELAND. In turfy bogs in the southern, western, and northern 
counties. — See B. G., and N. 13. G., for authorities. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June, July, and August. 
Root moderately creeping. Culms f stems J triangular, very 
slender, from 6 to 12 inches high, smooth, striated, leafy. Leaves 
sheathing at the base, upright, very narrow, strap-shaped, tapering 
upwards, with a bluntish point, keeled, their margins and keels, as 
well as those of the braeteas, and also the angles of the flower-stalks, 
rough. Spikelets of flowers white or whitish, collected into a kind 
of corymbose cluster, so as to form a level surface at the top. 
Braeteas variable in length, sometimes much longer than the clus- 
ter. In each of the spikelets (see fig. 1.) are two florets, both fertile ; 
with from 8 to 1 1 bristles with reflexed teeth, much longer than 
the germen (see figs. 4 & 5.), and decidedly placed outside the 
stamens ; from which circumstance Dr. R. Brown considers them 
as the true ■perianth of the flower. Filaments (see fig. 3.) 2, scarcely 
broader than the bristles. Anthers strap-shaped, upright. Fruit 
(fig. 7.) inversely egg-shaped, compressed, distinctly marginal, 
tapering at the base into a short stalk. Style (see figs. 4 & 6.) 
permanent, thin, pellucid, often greenish, without teeth, dilated at 
the base, not articulated, nor so broad as the seed, and readily dis- 
tinguished from it by its colour and texture. See Hook. Brit. FI. ; 
Loud. Mag. Mat. Hist. v. viii. p. 675. ; and Murray's Northern 
Flora. 
Specimens of this plant were obligingly communicated to me in September, 1839, 
by Mr. Thompson, of Crow-hall Mill, near Heydon Bridge, Northumberland; and 
my kind friend, Mr. W. Willis, of St. Austell, Cornwall, has lately favoured me 
with living specimens of it from Gorse Moor. From one of these specimens the 
Drawing for the accompanying Plate was made. 
