TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Caeex. 
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(E. Bot. 2042. E.)— Leers, 14. 2— (H. Ox. viii. 12, 32. Gooden.') 
Boot thread-shaped, jointed, creeping deep under the surface, joints distant, 
fibrous, set with bristle-like fringe. Straws above a foot high, somewhat 
leafy, naked upwards, rough. Leaves as long as the straw. Spike up¬ 
right, at length pendulous. Spikets twenty or thirty, sessile, oblong, 
taper-pointed, yellowish rust-coloured, the lower more distant, alternate, 
the two lowermost and the terminal one with all the florets fertile, when 
ripe egg-shaped and thicker; two or three in the middle with fertile 
flowers and some barren ones at the end, the upper fifteen to twenty, 
crowded, with only barren flowers. Floral-leaves, one at the base ot 
each spiket, spear-shaped, taper-pointed, the two or three lowermost egg- 
shaped, sometimes terminating in a bristle-shaped leaf just linger than 
the spiket. Scales of the barren flowers spear-shaped, of the fertile 
flowers egg-shaped. Nectary rough at the edges. Capsules egg-shaped, 
taper-pointed, with sharp edges cloven at the end. Leers. Resembles C . 
ovalis in habit. Straw usually taller, three-square, angles more acute. 
Spike longer. Spikets more numerous, smaller, more spear-shaped, 
sometimes found proliferous; the upper much crowded. Floral-leaf 
usually longer than the spike, not always present, and in its place broad 
oval spear-shaped scales, of a deeper brown than those of C. ovalis. 
Style divided to the base, whereas in C. ovalis, only about one fourth of 
its length. Woodw. Straw triangular, angles acute, rough. Summits 
two. Spikets seldom altogether barren or fertile, the former admitting a 
few pistilliferous, and the latter a few stameniferous florets. Nearly 
allied to C. arenaria, but besides the differences mentioned in the specific 
characters, and the situation of the roots, in C. intermedia the capsule 
has its margin entire, whilst in C. arenaria, it is bordered towards the 
top with a broadish membrane. Gooden. 
Soft Brown Carex. Soft Seg. (Welsh: Hesgen lygliw benblydd. E.) 
C.disticha. Huds. (C. arenaria. Leers. E.) Moist meadows and marshes. 
Near Bungay, frequent. Mr. Woodward. Boggy meadows on the side 
of Malvern Chase. Mr. Ballard. (In a meadow at Blymhill, Salop. 
Rev. S. Dickenson. The Park near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. In a 
thicket by the road from Abbot’s Moreton to Dunnington, Warwick¬ 
shire. Purton. In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Braid and Pentland Hills. 
Grev. Edin. E.) P. May—June. 
14. C. divi'sa. Spike egg-shaped, somewhat doubly compound : floral- 
leaf upright: spikets rather crowded: capsules laid close: root 
creeping. 
Linn. Tr. ii. 19. 2— E. Bot. 1096— {Barr. 114. 2, but the leaves should have 
been upright and straight—Park, 1267.11, the root well expressed. Gooden .) 
Root thick. Spikets egg-shaped, almost in contact, upright, terminal florets 
barren. Scales longer than the capsules. Capsules pressed close to the straw, 
a little bordered towards the end. Gooden. Leaves narrow, frequently longer 
than the straw. Straw one and a half to two feet high, triangular. Spikets 
five or six, the lower rather distant, the upper crowded and expanding. 
Floral-leaf often considerably longer than the spike, and growing in a line 
with the stem, gives the plant the appearance of a rush. Scales oval 
spear-shaped, shrivelling and falling off as the spike ripens. Style longer 
than the capsule, divided one third of the way into two summits , reflexed. 
Capsules whitish, oval, pointed at both ends, very obscurely triangular, 
or rather convex on one side, and flat on the inner. Woodw. 
Bracteated Marsh Seg. (C. divisa. Huds. E.) Salt marshes. Meadows 
near Hithe and Colchester. R. Syn. Near Oakley Bridge, between Norwich 
