TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. 
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( E . Bot . 832. E.)— H. Ox. viii. 12. 17— Leers, 15. 1— FI. Dan. 370— Mich. 
33. 15 and 16— Plulc. 34. 3. 
Spikes very small, the lower often on short fruit-stalks. Linn. A very- 
elegant plant. Stems several together, one to two feet high, slender, 
weak, triangular, leafy below, above the lowermost floral-leaf rough, 
below smooth. Leaves numerous, slender. Spikes five to eight, sessile, 
spear-shaped, the three or four lowermost in the bosom of floral leaves, 
the upper naked. Floral-leaves, the lowermost longer than the stem, 
the two or three next above gradually shorter. Scales spear-shaped, 
when young with a green keel, and silvery membranous edges ; when 
the seeds are ripe, yellowish. Style divided about the point of the cap¬ 
sule into two summits. Capsule longer than the scales. Woodw. Leaves 
edged with exceedingly fine teeth. 
Remote Seg. (Distant-flowered Carex. Welsh: Hesgenanghyfagos. 
E.) Moist woods and sides of wet ditches. P. May—June- 
10. C. axilla'ris. Spikets axillary, often three together, distant, 
sessile: floral-leaf long: capsules cloven at the end. (This 
latter distinction, Goodenough declares not constant. E.) 
Linn. Tr. ii. 19. 1— E. Bot . 993. 
Neither this nor the preceding species can well be mistaken, and though 
in many circumstances they agree one with the other, the following 
observations are abundantly sufficient to distinguish them. In C. axillaris 
the straw is strong and rigid ; in C. remota soft and feeble. C. axillaris 
has three to five spikets growing together; C. remota has never inora 
than one at the base of each leaf. Capsules in C . remota entire; in axil-* 
laris cloven. 
(Axillary Clustered Carex. E.) About wet ditch banks. Found by 
Mr. Curtis, near Putney. (Since by Mr. Woodward, at Earsham, 
Norfolk. Hall wood, Wood-Ditton, Cambridgeshire. Relhan. Side of a 
ditch near Ugly Green, and near Ridding Green, Essex. Mr. E. Forster, 
jun. Edges of ponds near Rippon. Mr. Brunton. Sides of ditches at 
Beverley. Col. Mackell. Bot. Guide. Near Copgrave, Yorkshire. Mr. 
Winch. Banks of the Esk, above Melville Castle. Dr. Graham, in Grev. 
Edin. E.) May—June. 
11. C. incurVa. Spike conical, composed of many sessile spickets 
crowded together: involucrum none: straw curved. 
(E. Bot. 927. E.)— Lightf. 24— Allion. 92. 4— FI. Dan. 432. 
Boot creeping. Stalk three or four inches high, obscurely triangular. 
Ijeaves smooth ; channelled, about the length of the straw. Spike , the* 
B. flower, at the top, the F. at the base. Summits two. Lightf. Its 
conic and compact spike sufficiently distinguishes it from C. arenaria . 
Gooden. From the description of different authors it appears that the 
curvature of the straw is no necessary part of its character, though 
Lightfoot had supposed it to be so, and Dr. Goodenough tells me that, 
in.all the specimens he had seen, it had a curved straw. (Smith agrees 
with us that C. juncifolia of Allioni is the same with this species; but, 
growing in alpine bogs, not exposed to driving sands or torrents, th»j 
stem is less frequently curved. E.) 
(Curved Carex. E.) Deep loose sea sand at the mouth of the water 
of Naver, and near Skellerry, in Dunrosness, Shetland. Hope, in FI. Scot. 
