TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. 
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(Near Stoke, Norfolk. Rev. Mr. Forby. Peat bogs, Anglesey, covering 
acres of swamp. Rev. Ii. Davies. Bogs at Lound, Suffolk. Mr. D. Tur¬ 
ner. Common in the marshes about Beverley. Teesdale, E.) P. June. 
26. C. fla'va. Sheaths short, inclosing nearly all the fruit-stalk ; the 
upper leaf-like part diverging; B. spike strap-shaped ; F. spike 
roundish; capsules beak-pointed. 
FI Dan. 1047— (E. hot. 1294. E.)— Leers, 15. 6— J. B. ii. 498.1—C. B. Th. 
109— Lob.Ic. 15. 1— Ger. Em. 17. I—Park. 1187. 2— H. Ox. viii. 12. 19. 
Boot creeping. Leaves longer than the straw, rough on the keel and edges. 
Barren spike single, terminal, slender, half to one inch long. Fertile 
spike either all crowded together near the male, or one of them lower 
down, or, as is mostly the case, all of them at some distance apart. 
Sheath about as long as the fruit-stalk, ending in a leaf standing out, 
and longer than the straw. Capsules three-sided, longer than the scales; 
beak rather bent, mouth generally entire, and pointing downward. 
Gooden. Stem two inches to a foot high, numerous, declining, in the 
smaller plants leafy up to the spike, but in the larger usually naked up¬ 
wards, triangular, smooth. Leaves pale yellowish green. Barren spike 
closely tiled. Scales numerous, bluntly oval, with one longer and larger, 
pointed and sometimes awned at the base. Fertile spikes three or four, 
at first roundish, afterwards oval; scales oval spear-shaped, yellowish 
brown, with a green keel and membranous edges ; the lower on fruit- 
stalks, the upper sessile, in the small plants from the bosom of the leaves, 
and the lowermost sometimes almost at the root. Floral-leaves, in the 
larger plants three, at the base of the lowermost long, expanding, those 
above shorter, bent back. Capsules short and thick, tapering to a point, 
pale greenish yellow. Style divided nearly to the base into three sum¬ 
mits. Woodw. The length and the horizontal direction of the floral-leaf, 
together with the globular heads of pointed capsules, render the investi¬ 
gation easy. The long tapering point of the capsules distinguishes this 
from C. extensa. Gooden. Fertile spikes from two to four. 
(Prof. Hooker renders C. (Ederi, E. Bot. 1773, a var. of this species ; 
“ smaller, fruit less recurvedthe latter characteristic by no means 
constant in C.Jlava. E.) 
Yellow Seg. Marsh Hedge-hog Grass. (Welsh: Ilesgen felen. E.) 
Marshes and wet meadows, common. P. May—June. 
27. C. fulVa. Lower sheath inclosing but half the fruit-stalk, upper 
ones nearly the whole. Fertile spikes two, oblong, acute. Cap¬ 
sules beak-pointed: (straw scabrous. E.) 
Linn. Tr. ii. 20. 6—( E. Boi. 1295. E.) 
Root creeping. St?'aw slender, upright, nearly a foot high, three-cornered, 
angles acute, rough. Leaves upright, narrow, rough at the edge and on 
the keel, shorter than the straw. Barren spike one, terminating, slender, 
pointed, half an inch long or more. Fertile spikes two (very rarely three), 
often distant, egg-oblong, acute, lower one on a longish fruit-stalk, up¬ 
per one nearly sessile. Floral-leaf, lower one upright, as tall as the 
straw, sheathing about half the fruit-stalk. Capsules somewhat three- 
cornered, expanding, but not diverging, beak-pointed and cloven at the 
end, fully as long as the scales. Summits three. (This plant was, at 
one period, abandoned as a species by the great expounder of the genus, 
but its claims to distinction nave latterly been urged by a majority of 
