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rows, about twice the length of the scales; mouth entire. Summits 
three. Gooden. Barren spike half to three quarters of an inch long. 
Fertile spikes about three. Capsules only two or three on a spike, dis¬ 
tant, about the size of hemp-seed. Woodw. ( Spikes very distant ; their 
f ew[flowers, and large inflated beaked fruit, decidedly mark this species 
Hook. E.) 
(Starved Wood Carex. E.) C. ventricosa. Curt. First found by Rev. 
Dr. Goodenough in Charlton Wood, near Dover, and since by Mr. Dickson 
in dry woods, near Godalmin, in Surry. (In a lane leading to Darn 
Wood, near Dartford. Mr. Sole. Woods near Forfar, rare. Mr. G. Don. 
Hook. Scot. E.) F. May—June. 
34. C. sylvat'ica. Sheaths short; spikes thread-shaped, flaccid, pen¬ 
dent ; capsules egg-shaped, ending in an awn-like beak. 
Dicks, H. S.— (E. Bot. 995. E.)— Leers 15. 2—H. Ox. viii. 12. 9— FI. 
Dan. 404. 
Sheaths inclosing about a quarter of the length of the fruit-stalks. Gooden. 
Its pendent spikes, the pale yellow green of its leaves, and the bend of 
its stem, which seems to form part of an elliptical curve, give it a very 
pleasing appearance, and render it one of the most elegant ornaments of 
our woods. St. Root creeping. Leaves in tufts from the joints of the 
root, yellowish green, about one-fourth of an inch wide, rough to the 
touch. Stems numerous, in tufts, twelve to eighteen inches high, trian¬ 
gular, rough at the edges, leafy. Fertile spikes four or five, distant, 
when in seed pendent, one to one and a half inch long, loosely tiled. 
Flowers alternate. Capsules smooth, triangular, with obscure edges, and 
a beak nearly as long as the capsule ; cloven at the end. Style divided 
almost to the base into two, and sometimes into three summits. Barren 
spikes terminal, about an inch long, slender, closely tiled. Woodw. 
Pendulous Wood Seg. (Welsh: Hesgen dibynaidd y goedwig. E.) 
C. vesicaria (3. Linn. Woods, common. P. May—June.* 
35. C. recur'va. Sheaths short; fertile spikes nearly cylindrical, 
pendent; capsules roundish, egg-shaped; roots creeping. 
(E. Bot. 1508. E.)— Leers 15.3— FI. Dan. 1051— H. Ox. viii. 12. 14. 
Straw triangular, angles smoothish, sea-green, about a foot high. Leaves 
the same glaucous green at the stem; very rough on the keel and the 
edges. Barren spike one or two, rarely three, terminal slender, about 
an inch long. Fertile spikes three, the same length, but thicker, on long 
fruit-stalks, pendent when ripe; far asunder. Sheaths inclosing scarce a 
fourth part of the length of the fruit-stalk, broad at the base, but ending 
in a leaf often taller than the straw. Capsules egg-shaped, indistinctly 
three-sided, bluntish, a little cottony, closed at the mouth, rather longer 
than the scales. Summits three, thick, downy. Varies much in size and 
habit, but the pendent black fertile species, the glaucous leaves, the short 
sheaths, the roundish capsules, the smoothish straw, and the creeping 
root, are obvious distinctions. Gooden. 
Heath Seg. (Glaucous Heath Carex. Welsh: Hesgen oleidas wyr- 
gam ddail. E.) Moist meadows, pastures, heaths, and woods. Wet 
woods in the New Forest, plentiful. Pastures near Thornbury, Glouces¬ 
tershire. (King’s Park, and Pentland Hills. Grev. Edin. Mr. Borrer, 
* (The Laplanders prepare a coarse clothing from this plant. Linn, E.) 
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