116 TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. 
Moot somewhat creeping. Leaves slender, upright, pale bluish green, rough 
along the edges and the keel. Straw twelve inches or more, rather 
taller than the leaves, triangular, corners acute, roughish. Spikets six 
or more, egg-shaped, sessile, alternate. Scales thin, membranous, 
tender. Capsule rim entire. Summits two. Gooden. Spikes of a whitish 
green. Haller. Spjikets oblong-egg-shaped. (Distinguished by its pale, 
elliptical spikes, and imbricating capsules. Hook. E.) 
White Seg. (Welsh: Hesgen benwen. E.) C. canescens. Lightf. C. 
brhoid.es. Huds. C. cinerea . With. ed. 2. Marshy places. Terrington 
Car, near Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Mr. Teesdale. (Llyn Idwell, 
Carnarvonshire. Mr. Griffith. At the foot ofLochain y Gair, near Inver- 
cauld, and on Ben Lawers. Mr. Brown. Near Edmond-Byers and 
Crook Oak, Durham. Mr. Winch. In a turbary between the par¬ 
sonage at Llandyfrydog and Trewyn, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) 
P. June. 
(7* C. elonga'ta. Spikets numerous, oblong, rather distant, naked; 
glumes egg-shaped: tunic egg-shaped, pointed, cloven, recurved, 
many-ribbed, longer than the glumes. E. Bot. 
E. Bot. 1920— Scheuch. Agr. 487. t. 11. f. 4. 
Moot tufted. Stems above a foot high, triangular, rough-edged, as are also 
the leaves. Spikets fiom seven to fourteen, oblong, alternate, the upper 
ones crowded. Glumes acute, glossy, brown, with a green rib and pale 
edge, shorter than the fruit, which is copious, green, egg-shaped or 
elliptical, pointed, cloven, strongly ribbed, at length somewhat recurved. 
Stigmas two. Barren Jlowers inferior, few. E. Bot. 
Elongated Carex. Discovered by Mr. Jonathan Salt, in a marshy place 
at Aldwark, near the river Don, below Sheffield. P. June. E.) 
8. C. ova'lis. Spikets about six, oval, alternate, near together: scales 
spear-shaped, acute, as long as the capsule. 
(FI. Pan. 1115— E. Bot. 306. E.)— IT. Ox. viii. 12. 29, and a separate spike 
at the bottom—Leers , 14. 6— Scheuch. 10. 15. 
Moot fibrous. Leaves deep green, rough on the edges and the keel. Straw 
triangular, a foot high; angles acute, rather rough. Capsules the rim 
entire. Summits two. B. Jlorets at the base of the spikes; few. 
F. Jlorets numerous, terminal. Gooden. Floral-leaves , frequently one 
at the base of the lowermost spiket, nearly as long as the spiket, soon 
falling off ; the others similar to the scales, only broader and longer. 
Scales oval spear-shaped, shining, yellowish brown, with a green keel, 
membranous at the edge, the upper in each spiket longer and more 
pointed. Woodw. Straw eight to sixteen inches high, hollow. 
Oval-spiked Seg. (Welsh : Hesgen hirgylchaidd. E.) C.leporina. Huds. 
Marshes and watery places. P. June. 
( C. tenella , Schk. (C. straminea, Don. Cant.) thus described in Eng. FI., 
“ Spikelets three, bracteated, distant, minute, of about three florets: 
fruit elliptical, convex at each side, very smooth and even, with a blunt 
entire beak : stamens two is said to have been found by Mr. G. Don 
in a wood by the river Esk, Angus-shire. Sm. E.) 
9. C. remq'ta. Spikets axillary, solitary, distant, nearly sessile : 
floral-leaf very long: capsules undivided at the end. (This 
latter characteristic, Goodenough finds not invariable. £.) 
