9. CYPERACEJE. 33. Trasus. 5? 
PI. end. ph. 
4. T? - asns digitatus. Finger sedge . 
Male spike sessile ; females 3, fingerlike, distant, foot- 
stalked, linear ; fruit obovate, beaked, 3-sided, downy ; 
glumes obovate, mucronate, as long as the fruit ; bracted 
oblique, mucronate ; culm compressed ; leaves flat. 
Carex digitata, Lin. S. P. 1384. 
Woods in chalky soils; perennial; May. 
Culm slender, obtusely 3-sided, 3 in. long, smooth; 
leaves light green, slender, flat ; male spike oblong, acute ; 
females 2 or 3, linear, 8-flowered, footstalked, from the 
same sheath as the male and overtopping it ; bracted 
sheathing, scariose; glumes loose, truncated, reddish, with 
a green rib. 
b. Bracted leaflike , sheathing; spikes footstalked, enclosed 
in the sheath ; fruit downy. 
5. Trasus prdcox. Farly sedge . 
Female spikes 2, close, oblong ; fruit subglobose, obtuse, 
3-sided, downy; glume ovate, acute, as long as the fruit. 
Gramen cyperoides vernum minimum, Rail Syn. 421, polyst. 17. 
Gramen cyperoides spicatum, Ger. cm. 22. 
Gramen spicatum foliis caryophylleis, Park. 1160. 
Carex montana, Relhan Cant. 353. 
Carex saxatilis, Huds. FI. Ang. 408. 
Carex praecox, Jacquin Austr. 446. 
Carex verna, Villars Dauph. 2, 204. 
Carex filiformis, Leers Herb. 718. 
Carex stolonifera, Ehr. Gram . 99. 
Dry barren pastures, heaths ; perennial ; April. 
Root stoloniferous ; culm 3-sided, edges blunt, 6 in. 
high ; leaves in tufts, short, light green, shining, recurved ; 
male spikes thick, clubshape ; female spikes with a short 
footstalk : bractece scariose, awned ; glume ferruginous, edge 
not scariose but the same colour, rib greenish ; fruit not 
notched at the apex. 
c. Br acted leaflike, ample xicaul ; spikes all sessile : fruit 
downy* 
6. Trasus tomentosus. Napped sedge . 
Female spikes 2, cylindrical, rather close; fruit roundish, 
napped ; glumes ovate, acute, smaller than the fruit ; bracted 
eared, amplexicaul. 
Carex tomentosa, Lin. Mant. 123. 
Carex sphaerocarpa, Ehr. Gram. 89 
Fields; perennial; June. 
