man. Near Gallow-liill : Thompson. — Kent; About Chiselhurst : Ray. Ih 
boggy Rround at Cockshill. and about 11am Ponds: L. W. Dii.lwyn, Esq.; 
South Kent i Rev. G. E. Smith, in N. B. G. — Lancash. Bootle North Shore, 
near Liverpool: Dr. Bostock. — Norfolk; At Sustead, near Cromer: Sir J. E. 
Smith. St. Faith’s Newton Bogs: Mr. Pitciiford. Flixtead, and Lakenham 
Marshes: N. B. G. Not uncommon in the county: Mr. Woobwasd.-^ 
Northumberland ; On the banks of Tyne at Chalderford and Low Park End, 
and on the Links at Holy Island and Bamborough : N. J. Winch, Esq. — Notts ; 
Southwell, Bulwell Bogs, Sulton-in-Ashfield, Kirby Hardwick, and Fountain 
Dale Bogs: N. B. G. — Somerset; Claverton Wood : Dr. Davis. — Staffordsh. 
In a field opposite Yoxall Lodge: C. C. Babincton, in N. B. G. — Suffolk ; 
Frequent in the county: Mr. Woodward. Flixton Marshes: Mr. Wigc. 
Middleton: Mr. Davy. Bungay: Mr. D. Stock. — Surrey; In the Rill near 
Dulwich Wells : Mr. Doody, in Ray's Synop. On Bagshot Heath: N. J. 
Winch, Esq. — In Sussex : Rev. G. E. Smith, in N. B. G.— Westmoreland ; 
About Orton : Ray. Near Brough, between Hill-beck and Morton, on the side 
of the mountain: Rev. J. Harriman. — Worcestersh. Malvern: W. Borrer, 
Esq. — Yorksh. Upon Welburn Moor ; common on Farnham Mires, and else- 
where near Knaresborough ; Bog at Wildon near Coxwold; and boggy places 
and pastures near Ripon, frequent: B. G. St. Trinians near Richmond; 
ditches near Giggleswick Torn, and rivulet opposite Gordale House, near 
Rievaulx Abbey; and about the Tees near Egglestone Bridge: N. B. G. — 
WALES. Flintshire ; Marsh about a mile W. of Prestatyn, on the coast: 
Mr. Griffith.— SCOTLAND. Argyleshire ; By the side of Lochs in Islay: 
Lightfoot. — Dumbartonsh. Dumbarton Castle, by the riverside: Mr. Yal- 
den. — Edinburghsh. Near Berthwick Castle : Mr. Maughan. 
Perennial. — Flowers in July. 
Root fibrous, rather creeping. Culm . ( stem) from 4 to 12 in- 
ches high, simple, roundish, a little flattened on one side, smooth, 
striated, covered by the sheathing bases of the leaves for about 
one-third upwards, the rest naked, the upper part near the spike 
triangular. Leaves grass-green, shorter than the culm, alternate, 
sheathing, channelled, the upper ones frequently flat, smooth, and 
unkeeled on their lower part, becoming keeled and triangular up- 
wards ; the keel and edges rough. Spike terminating, oblong, 
2-sided, almost upright, of a bright chesnut brown. Spikelets 
from 5 to 12, 2-ranked ; all the glumes in each spikelet perfect, 
except the lower one, which is empty. Bractea leaf-like, with a 
triangular sharpish top, roughish along the edges, mostly, but not 
always, longer than the spike. Stigmas 2, downy. Seed lenticu- 
lar, grey, with 6 longish, rough bristles beneath, and beaked with 
an unusually long portion of the style, nearly the whole of it, 
though the stigmas are deciduous. 
A pretty plant, native of other parts of Europe as well as of 
Britain, though it appears not to have been found in Ireland, as it 
is not noticed in Mr. Mackay’s Flora Hibernica. 
The specimen figured was from Bullington Green, near Oxford. 
The spikes, after flowering, become somewhat wider than those 
represented in the plate. 
