114 TRIANDRIA. M0N0GYNIA. Carex, 
Small Seg, or Sedge. Upright-fruited Dioecious Carex. Turf 
bogs, not very uncommon. Polam, near Darlington. Mr. Robson. Mea¬ 
dows, Marham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Boggy meadows, near Bungay, 
Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. (In a bog at the upper end of Llyn Idwel. 
Mr. Griffith. Hinton Moor, Gamlingay Bogs, moor between Snailwell 
and Exiling, Cambridgeshire. Dr. Manningham. Bog in Purbeck Isle. 
Pulteney. Near Aberdylais Waterfall. Dillwyn. Peat bogs on Bulling- 
ton Green, under Headington Wick Copse, Oxfordshire. Sibthorpe. 
Amberly Wild Brooks, Sussex. Mr. Borrer. Bot. Guide. Bogs near 
Hilton Castle, on Beamish Moor, and Chester Common, Durham. Mr. 
Winch. Pentland Hills. Grev. Edin. E.) P. June—July. 
(2. C. Davallia'na. Spikes simple, dioecious; fruit spear-shaped, tri¬ 
angular, ribbed, deflexed; its angles rough towards the summit. 
FI. Brit. 
E. Bot. 2123. 
Boot tufted, not creeping. Stem rough. Spikes much longer than in C. 
dioica , and the long, reflexed, strongly-ribbed seed-covers, roughish only 
at the angles near the top, not serrated, are abundantly characteristic. 
Sm. A span to a foot high. 
Prickly Separate-headed Carex. First ascertained to be British by 
Prof. J. Beattie, who found it in Mearnshire. By the side of Guillon 
Loch, near Edinburgh. Greville. But this author has some doubt whe¬ 
ther the plant there found may not prove of the preceding species. 
Near Belfast. Mr. Templeton. E.) Lansdown, near Bath. Mr. Groult. 
P. June. E.) 
3. C. pulica'ris. Spikes simple, with B. and F. florets; B. flowers 
uppermost: capsules diverging, reflexed, tapering at each end. 
(Hook. FI. Lond. 177— E. Bot. 1051. E.)— Beers , 14. 1— H. Ox. viii. 12.21 
—Mich . 33. 1— Pluk. 34.10— FI. Ban. 166.* 
Straw cylindrical, flattish on one side. Barren flowers falling off when 
out of blossom. Capsules pointed, when reflexed give the straw the 
appearance of a different plant, bearing no small resemblance to a har¬ 
poon. Linn. Root fibrous; this circumstance at all times distinguishes it 
from C. dioica, which has a creeping root. Straw smooth, three to 
twelve inches high. Spike terminal, cylindrical. Summits two. Gooden. 
Leaves bristle-shaped, bright green, in tufts, half as long as the straw. 
Spike, the barren part slender, closely tiled. B. flowers: scale somewhat 
oval. F. flowers: scales broad at the base, embracing the germen, 
tapering to a point. Capsules longer than the scales, at first pressed to, 
afterwards expanding, finally reflexed, in which state shining brown, 
spear-shaped both ways, at a little distance much resembling a flea. 
Woodw. 
Flea Seg. (Welsh: Chwain Hesgen. E.) Turfy and muddy bogs. Sides 
of Ingleborough and other mountainous situations. Curtis. Boggy 
meadows, Norfolk, and near Bungay, Suffolk. Woodward. Malvern 
* Scheuchz. 11. 9. 10. has been referred to this species, and by Linnaeus to his 
C. dioica, but Dr. Goodenough informs me Sclieuchzer’s plant is not a native of Bri¬ 
tain ; observing, that it is more like C. palicaris than dioica, but distinct from both; 
from dioica by the divaricated capsule ; from palicaris by the capsule being divaricated, 
not reflexed, and by being egg-shaped at the base, and not tapering from the middle 
to each end ; (and Smith suspects FI. Dan. 166, to be the barren plant of C. dioica, E.) 
