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TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex, 
53. C. ampulla'cea. Spikes thread-shaped, the barren thinnest, fer¬ 
tile ones cylindrical, upright; capsules inflated, globular, awn- 
beaked, diverging. 
(E. Bot. 780. E.)— H. Ox. viii. 12. 8— Leers 16. 2. II. 
Boot creeping very much. Straw one to two feet high, upright, three- 
square, angles acute, rough upwards, but smooth below the lowest 
spike. Leaves glaucous, upright, narrow, longer than the straw, gene¬ 
rally rough at the edges and on the keel. Barren spikes two or three, 
strap-thread-shaped, upper one, one to two inches long, the others 
shorter. Scales oblong, either blunt or acute, yellowish. Fertile spikes 
two or three, cylindrical, one to two inches long, upright, on short fruit- 
stalks. Scales spear-shaped, acute, yellowish, but half the length of the 
capsule. Floral-leaf, one at the base of every spike, male as well as 
female upright, narrow. Capsules closely tiled in eight rows, inflated, 
globular, awn-pointed or beaked, diverging, yellowish, ending in two 
little teeth. Summits three. The sheaths of the root-leaves have the 
fibrous texture before-mentioned in C. stricta. Gooden. Stem one to four 
feet high, angles obscurely marked. Woodw. The scales, both of the 
barren and fertile flowers in C. vesicaria are acutely pointed or awned, 
but in this species they are less acute and not at all awned. (The fruit 
of this species resembles a bottle or flask, ampulla; that of the last a 
bladder, vesica; so that they ought never to have been confounded in 
character or name; to say nothing of the totally different shapes of their 
catkins when ripe. Sm. E.) 
Beaked or Bottle Seg. (Welsh: Hesgen chwysigenaidd ylfinfain. C. ve¬ 
sicaria. Huds. Lightf. C. rostrata , With. ed. ii. Sibth. E.) Bogs and 
marshy watery places, but not very common. Bogs of Isla, and on Ben- 
teskerny in Breadalbane. Lightfoot. Common in the north, on the edges 
of brooks and rivulets, as in Giggles wick Tarn, and borders of Semer 
Water, Wensledale. Not nearer London than Virginia Water. Curtis. 
Near Bungay, frequent. Mr. Woodward. Mill below Droitwich. 
Mr. Baker. In a pool in the Lakewood, near Pucklechurch. Rev. 
G. Swayne. (In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Bulwell and Wollaton. Notts. 
Pentland Hills. Grev.Edin. E.) Edgbaston pool, near Birmingham. E.) 
P. May—July. 
54. C. hir'ta. Hairy; all the spikes oblong ; fertile spikes far asun¬ 
der, sheathed; capsules hairy. 
Dicks. H. S. — (E. Bot. 685. E.)— Leers 16. 3— II. Ox. viii. 12. 10— FI. 
Dan. 425. E.) 
Boot creeping very much. Straw upright, three-square, angles very acute 
and rough. (One to two feet high. E.) Leaves nearly half an inch 
broad, hairy, rather shorter than the straw, rough on the keel and the 
edges. Barren spikes two. Fertile spikes three, far asunder, the lower 
on long fruit-stalks. Floral-leaves one to each fertile spike, sheathing 
near half the fruit-stalk of the lower spike. Summits three. Gooden. 
The hairiness of the leaves, the scales, and the capsules, so clearly dis¬ 
tinguish this from every other species, as to render a more minute descrip¬ 
tion unnecessary. 
Hairy Seg. (Welsh : HesgenJlewog. E.) Meadows and pastures in wet 
or marshy places. A remarkable variety figured Schkuhr t. U. u. f. B. 
has been observed for successive years by the Rev. J. Dalton, near his 
house at Copgrove, Yorkshire. Bot. Guide. E.) P. May—June. 
