9, CYPERACE/E. 33. Trasus. 
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PI. end. ph . 
Carex extensa, Withering? 
Carex Oederi, Hoffm. Germ. 214. 
Carex flava jS, De Candolle Syn. FI. Gall. 1745. 
Carex flava y, Willd. Sp. Pi. 4, 268. 
Moist sandy meadows ; perennial ; all the year. 
Root fibrous, creeping, throwing up new culms all the 
year; cutm 12 in. high, lying down ; leaves slender, acute \ 
hractece. as long as the spike, at length reflexed ; male spike 
slender ; female spike ovate, conical, acute, crowded, the 
lower ones distant; fruit expanding, apex bluntish. 
f. Bractece leaflike , sheathing; spikes foot stalked^ the 
upper enclosed , the lower exserted , male 1 ; fruit smooth . 
14?. Trasus extensus. Long sedge. 
Female spikes 3, elliptical, roundish, rather close, bractese 
very long ; sheath and footstalks very short ; fruit elliptical, 
ribbed, apex 2-toothed; glumes ovate, pointed, smaller 
than the fruit ; culm smooth ; leaves slender. 
Gramen cyperoides q. Cyperoides echinatum majus Petiver, Raii Syn . 
421, polyst. 18.* 
Carex extensa, Gooderiough , L. T. 2, 175. 
Sea-side; perennial; June. 
Root fibrous; culm upright, 12 in. high, bluntly 3-sided; 
leaves recurved, slender, grooved; hractece very long, 
spreading, with very short, dilated sheaths; male spike 
single, nearly sessile, lanceolate ; female spikes 2 or 3, close, 
upright, ovate; glume ovate, 3-ribbed, pointed, ferruginous* 
back green; fruit spreading, scarcely beaked, angles 
smooth. 
|3. cylindraceus. Spike long, cylindrical* 
15. Trasus Hostianus. Host 9 s sedge. 
Female spikes 3, oblong, distant ; hractece leaflike, long ; 
ligula opposite to the leaves, long, acute ; sheaths half the 
length of the footstalk \ fruit 3-sided, beaked, beak 2-toothed, 
teeth acute ; culm smooth, roundish ; glumes obtuse. 
Carex fulva, Host Gram. Austr. 77. 
Carex Hostiana. De Cand. Hort. Monsp . 
Mountains; perennial; June. 
Culm rough and angular below the spikes, upright or 
bent, 2 feet high ; radical leaves keeled, light green, edge 
rough ; hractece not overtopping the culm, sheath ending 
in a membranous ligula ; male spikes 1 or 2, slender, sessile, 
upright, cylindrical ; glume rather blunt, chesnut brown : 
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