TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. 
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Mud Seg. (Green and Gold Carex. Welsh : Hesgen curwerdd. 
E.) C.elegans. Willd. Woodw. Peat bogs and marshes, Yorkshire, 
Lancashire, Westmoreland, &c., frequent. Huds. Tullybanchar, half 
a mile west of Comrie near Grief. Mr. Stuart in FI. Scot. Heydon, 
Norfolk. Bryant. St. Faith’s Newton Bogs. Mr. Woodward. Moss of 
Bestenat, Scotland. Mr. Brown. Peat bog on Mendip Hills. Rev. G. 
Swayne. (On Salsbri Farm, in Llanbadrick, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. 
Mr. Winch has never detected this plant either in Northumberland or 
Durham. E.) P. June. 
(38. C. rariflo'ra. Sheaths almost none ; fertile spikes narrow, very 
few-flowered, pendulous; bracteas subsetaceous; capsule egg- 
shaped, rather acute, striated. 
E. Bot. 2516. 
Boot much creeping. Stem six inches high. Leaves half that length. 
Cal. glumes very deep brown. Nearly allied to C. limosa , and united to 
it by Wahlenberg, but in the opinion of Prof. Hooker distinct. 
Loose-flowered Alpine Carex. Mountain at the head of the Glen 
of Doll, Angus-shire. P. June. Hook. E.) 
3Q. C. psetjdo-cype'rus. Sheaths hardly any; fertile spikes cylin¬ 
drical, on fruit-stalks, pendent; capsules awn-beaked, rather 
diverging, 
(FI. Dan. 1117. E.)— E. Bot. 2^2—Dod. 339— Lob. Ic. i. 76. 2 —Ger.Em. 
29. 2—Park. 1266. 4— C. B. Th. 85—J. B. ii. 496. 3 —H. Ox. viii. 12. 5. 
Stem one and a half to three feet high, leafy below, naked above, triangular, 
edged with sharp teeth, with a joint near the top. Leaves forming 
thick tufts, long, broad, finely toothed, edges cutting. Floral-leaves si¬ 
milar to the other leaves, the lowermost broad, often more than a foot 
long, at the joint at the top of the stem, those above narrower and 
shorter. Fertile spikes from the bosom of the floral-leaves, at a small 
distance one above the other, sometimes two together, the lowermost on 
a long slender fruit-stalk, when in flower upright, when in fruit pendent, 
from three to five, all rising to nearly the same height; scales green, awl- 
shaped, longer than the capsules, finely toothed at the edges, and on the 
back. Capsules pale green, spear-shaped, obscurely three-square, ele¬ 
gantly ribbed. Style divided into three summits, scarcely longer than 
the awns of the capsule. Barren spike terminal, two inches long. 
Scales closely tiled, yellowish brown, ending in a long awn, toothed 
like the stem, and longer than the filaments. Woodw. Root fibrous. 
Capsules rather tumid in the middle. The minuteness of the sheaths, the 
long points, and the wide distance of the capsules, are sufficient to distin¬ 
guish it. The intermediate fruit-stalks are sometimes found doubled. 
Gooden. Capsules when young pointing upwards, but expanding, when 
more advanced horizontal, when quite ripe pointing downwards. 
Cyperus-like Carex. Bastard Seg. Moist shady places, banks of 
pools and ditches, common. P. June. 
(40. C. ustula'ta. Sheaths elongated, shorter than the flower-stalks: 
fertile spikes pendulous : bracteas nearly leafless : capsule ellipti¬ 
cal, compressed, beaked, bifid at the apex. 
E. Bot. 2404. 
Stems about a span high, leafy at the base; with short, rather broad leaves . 
Fertile spikes two, remarkable for their blackened hue. 
