CAREX. 
1 ded. Stems numerous, from one to three, and jfome- 
fimes four, feet high. The lax branchy difpofition of the 
fpike is a fufficient mark of difcriminaticn in this fpecies. 
The brandies are alternate, and fomewhat dillant from 
each other. It is a native of bogs and marfhes, flowering 
in June, and is admirably well qualified for planting in 
l.ooie boggy ground; its immenfe tufts making a firm hap¬ 
pen for the heavieft bodies. 
19. Carex Indica, or Indian fedge : fpikes androgy¬ 
nous, cylindric, panicled, pinnate; a few of the lower 
flofcules female. Native of the Faff Indies. 
20. Carex brnnnea, or brown fedge : fpikes androgy¬ 
nous, peduncled, linear; in the upper part male. Ob- 
ferved in Japan by Tluinberg. 
III. Male and female flowers on diftinft fpikes; fe¬ 
males fefiile. 21. Carex flava, or yellow fedge: flieaths 
fliort, nearly equalling the divaricate leaflet; male fpike 
linear ; females roundifti, capfnles roftrate-acu ruinate. 
Stems two inches to a foot high, numerous, declining; in 
the fmaller plants leafy up to the fpike, but in the larger 
i!finally naked upwards, triangular, not rough to the 
touch. Leaves pale yellowifh green. The long divari¬ 
cated foliaceous bradte is a very conflant diferiminating 
mark in this fpecies, which, together with its round 
prickly heads, renders the inveftigation perfedlly eafy. 
Ray calls this marjli hedge-hog grafs, and mentions that he 
found a larger variety near Cambridge, a foot and half in 
height, with rarely more than two fielfile fiiarp grained 
lieads near the top, the lower bearded, with a long leaf. 
This fpecies is common in boggy and wet meadows, 
marfhes, and the boggy parts of barren heaths ; flowering 
in May and June. 
22. Carex pedata : female fpikes, fefiile, oblong; the 
lower axillary ; leaves fubfiliform. Leaves a foot long, 
very narrow, fomewhat ft iff, fmooth and even at bottom. 
Native of Lapland. 
23. Carex digitata, or digitated fedge: fpikes linear, 
erect ; male fhorter, brafles membraneous, almoft leaf- 
lefs, fheathing, halved, capfules diftant. Leaves in a 
thick tuft; Items oblcurely three-cornered, (lender, not 
rough, from fix-to twelve inches high, entirely naked, 
except fome reddifh. brown leafy flieaths at the bale. 
Style divided half way into three ftigmas. Native of 
many parts of Europe. Found by Mr. Sole, apothecary 
at Bath, in woods and fhady places near that city. It 
flowers in May and June. 
24. Carex montana, or mountain fedge : female fpikes, 
fefiile, fubfolitary, ovate, approximating to the male; 
culm naked; capfules pubeicent. Found on mountainous 
paftures and heaths. 
25. Carex tomentofa: female fpikes fubpeduncled ; 
capfules fubglobular, comentofe. According to M. Vil- 
lars, the culm is thin and weak, about a foot high, ter¬ 
minated by two or three oval fpikes, the uppermoft of 
'which is male; feales pointed, green on the back, and 
ruffet at the edge. Capfules pear-ffvaped with a very 
fmall point in the middle of the blunt end ; they are very 
villofe, whitifii and cottony, from fifteen to twenty in a fpike. 
26. Carex globul;iris : male fpike oblong, female fefiile 
ovate ; flora! leaf I’norter, approximating. Leaves in a 
thick tuft, firm, fhort, not more than, half aline broad; 
culm three inches high, almoft naked, three-cornered. 
27. Carex filirormis: (heaths ilmrv, nearly, equalling 
the peduncle; male fpikes commonly tvvp; females ovate, 
remote, capfules downy. Leaves (lender, upright, end¬ 
ing in a very taper point, roughifh on the edges and along 
the keel, from one to three feet in length. It is readily 
diftinguifhed by its leaves, which are narrow, often a 
yard in length, and ending in a very taper point. In 
fructification it is equally diftinfl, by having generally 
two male fpikes and never more, and caplules downy, 
almoft woolly. Native of feveral parts of Europe, in 
woods. Obferved by the Reverend E. Williams near 
Eaton in Shropfhire ; and at the Couth end of Air Links, 
in Scotland, by Dr. Hope, It flowers in June. 
28. Carex pilnlifera, or round-headed fedge: (heaths 
none: male fpike fublinear; females roundifh, fefiile, 
crowded, culm weak. Leaves in a thick tuft, bright, 
green ; the longed fcarcely half as long as the ftern, which 
is three-cornered, (lender, not rough, fomewhat attend¬ 
ing at the bale. It is common in moift paftures and 
heaths; flowering in April and May. 
29. Carex faxatilis, or rock ledge; fpikes three, ovate, 
fefiile, alternate; male oblong. Native of the mountains 
of Lapland and SvvilFerland. 
30. Carex triftachya: fpikes monoecous three, feflile, 
linear ; male longer. One leaf or two leaves at mod, al¬ 
ternate, linear, fmooth, reflefted, (hor tculni three-cor¬ 
nered, capillary, (triated, fmooth, erctft, four inches high. 
IV. Male and female fpikesdiftinct; females peduncled. 
31. Carex atrata, or black ("edge : fpikes all androgynous, 
terminal peduncled; when in flower ere if, when in fruit 
pendulous; capfule ovate, (liarpub, (heaths fcarcely any. 
Stem three-cornered, fmooth, with leaves from one inch 
and an half to two inches from the root, naked upwards; 
the upper often longer than theftem. It is Angular in this 
fpecies, that it has for the moft part only two ftamens, 
and a few hermaphrodite flowers. Its having no (heaths, 
or at lead very minute ones, and black ovate fpikes, are 
marks fufficient to diftinguifh it readily from all others 
with which it can come in any competition. Native of 
moft parts of Europe, on mountains; with us in Wales 
and Scotland ; flowering from May to July. 
32. Carex limofa: (pikes ovate, pendulous when in 
fruit ; male longer, more erect, root creeping. Leaves 
tufted, long, bright green, rough, the uppermoft nearly 
as long as the ftern ; which is (lender, three-cornered, and 
rough. This fpecies has been confounded with recurva, 
from which it is readily diftinguilhable by its very fliort 
(heaths, by its ovate fpikes, by the comprefted (liape of 
the capfules, and by their colour, which is caefious green 
when young, and brown when ripe ; whereas in recurva 
they are round, ovate and black. In a garden, it fre¬ 
quently throws up barren leafy (talks, which will'readily 
take root, if planted in pots plunged in' water. The 
name Jiolonifera, therefore, would be proper. In a wild 
date it has not more than two female (pikes, ufually one 
only. In a garden it rarely flowers. It is common in 
boggy ground, flowering in June ; with us in York (hire, 
Lancafliire, Weftmoreland, &c. 
33. Carex capillaris, or capillary fedge : fpikes pendtu 
lews ; male eredt, females oblong diftich ; capfules naked 
acuminate. ' Culm when in flower (liorter than the leaf, 
fcarcely a finger’s breadth high, with a (ingle leaf; from 
the end are produced four ereft fpikes, one of which is 
male : in a (hort time the culm becomes a fpan in height, 
filiform, eredt, with one fheathing leaf in the middle of 
it, but fhorier than the culm. The diminutive ftature, 
fays Dr. Goodenough, of this plant, its capillary pe¬ 
duncles, its female fpikes pendulous, lax, with few 
flowers, from four to eight, and the feales being deciduous, 
place it in too confpicuous a light to be miftaken. His 
charadter of the fpecies is this : flieaths halved, female 
fpikes oblong, lax, when fruit-bearing pendulous, pe¬ 
duncles capillary, capfules acuminate. Native of the 
highland mountains of Scotland. 
34 Carex pallefcens, or pale fedge : flieaths very 
much abbreviated, female fpikes fubcylindric, when fruit- 
bearing pendulous, capfules oblong blunt. Twice as 
thick as the foregoing, and the leaves broader; ftern leaves 
fcarcely fheathing, bur extending beyond the end of the 
ftern. Grows in woods, meadows, and moift paftures; 
flowering in May and June. 
35. Carex panicea, or pink-leaved fedge: fpikes pe¬ 
duncled, ereef, remote; females linear; capfules blunt- 
ifti, inflated, fomewhat diftant. Stems bluntly three-cor¬ 
nered; fmooth, twelve to eighteen inches ; leaves fmooth; 
fea green, (liorter than the ftern. According to the ob- 
fervation of Linnaeus, they are frequently fmutty, and 
then become globular and larger ; this is the cafe alfo 
with. 
