TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. 
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Dicks . H. S. — (E. Bot. 885. E.)— FI. Dan. 1048— Leers 16. 6— H. Ox. viii. 
12. 1 6—Pluk. 91. 8. 
Boot fibrous. Straw three to six inches long, or more, curved, three- 
cornered, angles acute, rather smooth. Leaves fine yellowish green, 
slender, shorter than the straw, upwards rough at the edge and on the 
keel. Barren spikes single, strap-shaped, terminal. Fertile spikes three, 
at the base of the male, near together, oblong, acute, more globular 
when ripe; the two lower ones with a short, sessile, green floral-leaf; 
the upper one with the floral-leaf, membranous, egg-shaped, keeled, 
ending in a slender green point. Scales as long as the ripe capsules. 
Capsules turning black, roundish, somewhat cottony, ending in a short, 
bluntish, undivided point. Summits three. The globular form of the 
fertile spikes is occasioned by the terminal florets being usually bar¬ 
ren, and deciduous; as these wither away, the spikes assume their 
round form, otherwise they are in general oblong. (Readily distinguished 
by the pubescent, almost spherical capsules, which give name to the spe¬ 
cies. Hook. E.) 
Round-fruited Seg. (Welsh : Hesgen bengron. E.) C. montan a. FI. 
Suec., not C.pilulifera. Syst. Veg. Moist heaths and pastures, not uncom¬ 
mon : (often growing amongst gorse bushes. E.) Bath Hills, Bungay, 
Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. On a dry bank facing Llanberris village, on 
the ascent towards Llyn y Cwn. Mr. Griffith. (The Park, Liverpool. 
Dr. Bostock. In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) P. April—June. 
(44. C. tomento'sa. Sheaths extremely short; fertile spikes nearly 
sessile, cylindrical, obtuse ; glumes elliptical, acute ; fruit downy. 
E. Bot. 204 G—Leers 200. 15. 7. 
Boot creeping, with long and compound fibres. Stems a foot or more in 
height, erect, naked, with three sharp angles, rough upwards. Leaves 
shorter than the stem, upright, flat, grass-green, rough on both sides and 
at the edges. Bracteas leafy, rather spreading, the longest rising some¬ 
what above the stem, with scarcely any sheath. Barren spike lanceolate, 
bluntish, with spear-shaped rusty scales having green keels,, the upper 
ones occasionally pointed. Fertile spikes usually two, not very distant, 
almost sessile, cylindrical, blunt, various in length, their glumes elliptic- 
ovate, slightly pointed, rusty, with broad green keels. Fruit about as 
long as the scales, crowded, roundish, scarcely at all compressed, and 
but slightly triangular, green, clothed with short dense whitish down. 
Beak short and cloven. Seed pale, obscurely triangular. E. Bot. It is 
most akin to C. prcecox and pilulifera, but Is much larger, arid the red 
sheaths of the radical leaves, as in C. digitata, are very striking at first 
sight. Sm. in Linn. Trans, v. 5. 
Larger Downy-fruited Carex. This plant has been ascertained by 
Smith to be the real C. tomentosa of Linnaeus, new to the British Botanist, 
and discovered by Mr. R. Teesdale, in meadows near Merston Measey, 
Wiltshire. P. June. E.) 
45. C. ri'gida. Summits two ; sheaths none<; spikes oblong, nearly 
sessile : leaves rigid, recurved. 
(E. Bot. 2047. E.)— FI. Dan. 159— Linn. Tr. 22. 10— Mich. 32. 4™ 
Boot thick, creeping. Straw four or five inches high, curved, three-cornered, 
angles very rough, rigid. Leaves dark, and rather glaucous green, rigid, 
curved, shorter than the straw, towards the end rough on the edge and 
on the keel. Barren spike single, (rarely two), terminal, oblong, 
pointed, three-fourths of an inch long. Scales black, egg-shaped, very 
