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S3. Trasus. 9. CYPERACE^. 
PI. end. plu 
edge white, scariose; rib yellow, ending below the tip; 
female spikes 3, distant, oblong, acute; glume ovate, lan- 
ceolate, acute, nearly as long as the fruit, keeled, rib yel- 
lowish, ending below the tip ; edge white, scariose ; fruit 
yellowish green, 3-sided, slightly striated, angles very 
smooth, beaks linear, slightly bent, apex 2- toothed, acute. 
Communicated by Mr. G, Don, as found on the Moun- 
tain Clova, Angus-shire, in Scotland. 
16. Trasus fulviis. Tawney sedge . 
Female spikes ovate, oblong, distant ; Iraclece upright ; 
sheath hall the length of the footstalk ; ligula very short 
or 0 ; glumes ovate, blunt, larger than the fruit ; fruit el- 
liptical, beak upright, 2-toothed ; culm serrulate. 
Carex trigona, Allioni Pedern. 232, 5. 
Carex flava 2, Withering Rot. Arr . 134. 
Carex fulva, Goodenough L. T. 2, 177. 
Bogs ; perennial ; June, July. 
Root creeping; culm upright, afoot high, 3-sided, angles 
rough ; leaves upright, slender, dark green, shorter than 
the culm ; hradeee upright, not overtopping the culm ; 
sheath long, apex brownish ; ligula extremely short ; male 
spike linear, slender, upright; glume obtuse, brown, rib 
brownish, very faint ; female spikes 2 or 3, upright ; glume 
ovate, rib pale, ending below the tip ; fruit green, longer 
than the glumes, upright, spreading, faintly ribbed, angles 
smooth, beak linear, 2-toothed. 
17. Trasus distans. Distant sedge . 
Female spikes 3, ovate, very distant ; hracteae upright ; 
sheaths half the length of the footstalk; ligula opposite 
to the leaf, short, blunt; glumes ovate, pointed, nearly as 
long as the fruit; fruit acutely pointed, bicuspidate, acute- 
angled. 
Gramen cyperoides spicis parvis longissime distantibus, Raii Syn. 420, 
polyst. 3 6. 
Carex distans, Lin. S. P . 1387. 
Bogs by the sea-side; perennial; June. 
Culm smooth, 2 feet high, upright, bluntangled, weak ; 
leaves broadish, short, fiat, light green, sheath long ; ligula 
opposite to the leaves, short, blunt, white; male spike thick, 
lanceolate, obtuse; glume ferruginous, pointed, rib broad; 
glumes of the female spike broad, ovate, pointed ; ribs three, 
closing at the apex; fruit longer than the glumes, brown, 
nearly 3-sided, many ribbed, edges raised, smooth, 2-cut ? 
beaks short, diverging. 
