TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. 
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Chase. Mr. Ballard. Polam, near Darlington. Mr. Robson. Charley 
Forest. Pulteney. On St. Vincent’s Rocks, Bristol, with Ophrys apifera. 
(Feckenham Bog, Worcestershire. Purton. In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. 
E.) P. June. 
4. C. pauciflo'ra. Spike simple, with B. and F. florets: F. florets 
about three, not closely set, expanding: B. floret generally one, 
terminal. 
Dicks. II. S. —(E. Bot. 2041. E.)— Light/. 6. 2. at p. 77. 
Root branched. Straw (three to five inches high), upright triangular, 
leafy, striated. Root-leaves few, ensiform, pointed, naked; stem-leaves 
two, shorter than the straw. Spike terminal, upright. Barren/lowers 
two or three, brown; fertile /lowers three or five, greenish. Huds. 
( Summits three, occasionally two. Lightf. Readily known from the last 
by the very pale yellowish colour of the fruit. Hook. E.) 
Few-flowered Seg. C. patula. Huds. 402 and 657. St. Bogs and 
mountainous heaths. Boggy soil halfway up Goatfield mountain, in the 
Isle of Arran; near a place where peat is dug in the ascent to Brodwick 
Castle. Lightfoot. (On peat bogs, Northumberland, between Twice- 
brewed-ale and Crag Lake, near the Roman-wall, at 500 feet above the 
level of the sea; the only English station yet ascertained. Mr. Winch. 
Middle of Ben Lomond. Dr. Walker in Hook. Scot. E.) P. June. 
(2) Spike compound: both barren and fertile florets in each spiket . 
£C. atrata.]] 
5. C. stellula'ta. Spikets generally three (or four), distant; cap¬ 
sules diverging; entire at the rim; acute. 
(E. Bot. 806. E.)— I jeers, 14. 8— FI. Dan. 284— II. Ox. viii. 12. 26 — 
Scheuch. 11. 3— Mich. 33. at the bottom , the right hand small figure. 
(A span to a foot high. E.) Root fibrous. Leaves very slender, the edges 
and the keel a little rough, particularly upwards. Straw triangular, 
whilst ^flowering three inches high, afterwards much longer, and taller 
than the leaves. Capsules only slightly or not at all cloven at the end. 
Summits two. Gooden. Spikets seldom more than four, the spaces 
between them about equal to their length. Woodw. Distinguished from 
C. muricata by having the point of the capsule acute, and not very evi¬ 
dently cloven. Hal. 
(Mr. Dawson Turner states, in Bot. Guide, that he found in the meadows 
opposite the inn at Beddgelert, a curious variety of this plant with a 
small barren spike at the top of the androgynous ones. That gentleman 
had also received a similar specimen from Germany. E.) 
(Little Prickly Carex. C. muricata. Lightf. Welsh: Hesgen seraidd. 
E.) Sides of wet ditches and marshy places; in many counties. 
P. May—June. 
6. C. cur'ta. Spikets about six, egg-shaped, rather distant, naked; 
scales egg-shaped, rather acute, shorter than the capsule. 
(E. Bot . 1386. E.)— Leers , 14. 7 — Mich. 33. 18— FI. Dan. 285— Pluk. 
34. 4.* 
* The fig. of Micheli is very large and coarse. Loesel. Pruss. p. 117. t. 32. is one 
of the best figures extant. In Plukenet’s the spicula are wrongly placed on one side. 
Gooden, 
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