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TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex, 
Loose Pendulous Seg. Slender-eared Broad-leaved Cyperus-grass, 
with many spikes. R. Syn. Woods and hedges. In a lane near Black 
Notley, Essex. Woods near Oxford. Mr. Newberry. Lanewood and 
Shortwood, Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire. Mr. Swayne. In a wood at 
Hedenham, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. (Old Hut woods, near Liver¬ 
pool. Dr. Bostock. Amiston Woods. Grev. Edin. E.) P. April—May. 
24. C. prje'cox. Sheaths short, inclosing nearly all the fruit-stalk ; 
spikes near together: barren spike club-shaped: fertile egg- 
shaped : capsules roundish, pubescent. 
Dicks. h. s. — {Hook. FL Lond. E.)— Jacq. Aastr. 446— {E. Bot. 1099. E.) 
Lob. Jc. i. 10 ; the upper figure on the right hand with three spikes — Ger. 
Em. 22. 8. the upper figure. — Park. 1160. 8 —{the lower figure is a single- 
spiked variety , which I have found occurring now and then. Gooden .) 
Root creeping. Straw six to twelve inches high, leafless, triangular, angles 
smooth. Leaves shorter than the straw, wide-spreading, somewhat 
channelled, strap-shaped, pointed, rough on the keel and at the edges. 
Spikes one barren, from one to three fertile, but mostly two ; near the top 
of the straw and not far asunder. Scales membranous, rush-coloured, 
about as long as the capsules. Fruit-stalk of the fertile spikes short, 
encompassed by a sheathing leaf of the same length, which hardly ever 
exceeds the height of the straw. Capsules cottony, egg-shaped, rather 
triangular, mouth undivided. Summits three. Jacq. Gooden. Easily 
distinguishable from C. pilulifera and saxatilis of Huds., by its spikes 
having short peduncles encompassed by a sheath of the same length, 
Huds. plants having no sheath. Gooden. The smaller specimens with 
stiff recurved leaves, have much the appearance of C. rigida, but in that 
the straw is rough, the flower scales black, the capsules smooth, the sum¬ 
mits only two; whilst in this the straw is smooth, the scales chesnut- 
coloured, the capsules pubescent, the summits three. 
(Vernal Carex or Seg. Welsh : Hesgen gynnar. E.) On wet heaths, 
and poor soiled meadows, common. P. April—May. 
25. C. filifor/mis. Sheaths short, inclosing nearly all the fruit-stalk : 
barren spikes generally two, strap-shaped: fertile spikes egg- 
shaped, distant: capsules very pubescent. 
Linn. Tr. ii. 20. 5 — {E. bot. 904. E0— Scheuch. 10. 11. 
Root creeping. Straw upright, slender, about the length of the leaves, 
three-cornered, angles acute, rough. Leaves slender, upright, very fine 
at the end, one to three feet high, rather rough at the edge and on the 
keel. Spikes generally two barren, and two fertile. B. spikes, the up¬ 
per one an inch and a half to two inches long, the lower hardly one 
inch, both slender. F. spikes mostly two, the upper one often sessile ; 
sometimes one on a very short fruit-stalk, upright, egg-shaped. Sheath 
short, but entirely enclosing the fruit-stalk, ending in a leaf which is 
scarcely so high as the straw. Scales oblong, acute, about the length of 
the capsule. Capsule hairy or woolly, three-cornered, mouth open, 
cloven. Summits three, hairy, rather thick. The great length of its 
slender leaves, its almost woolly capsules, and the male spikes never 
being more than two, readily distinguished it from every other Carex. 
Gooden. F. spikes oblong; sometimes three of each sort, when the B. 
spikes are hardly half an inch long. Straw rough only above the spikes. 
(Slender-leaved Carex. Welsh: Hesgen feindwf. E.) C. tomentosa. 
Lightf. At Eaton, Shropshire, found by the Rev. Mr. Williams. South end 
of Ayr Links. Dr. Hope. Shortwood near Pucklechurch. Rev. G. Swayne. 
