Tar. 3. E. Fl. 1. c. differs only in having smaller rounder simple spikelets and a smoother stem.

Gravelly ditch-banks about Eaton Mascott. Cound. On the rocky bank of Baughmond Hill. Wrekin. Ditch-banks about Ruyton, near Beckbury; Rev. F. #liams's MSS.

Queen Eleanor's Bower, Haughmond hill. Sharpstones hill. Pontesford hill. 10. C. divulsa, Gooden. Grey Carex. Spike elongated, lax, lower spikelets remote, uppermost approximate; fruit suberect; glumes pale, membranous, acute, with a green dorsal stripe; perigynium ovate, acute, plano-convex, margins slightly rough, orifice b.nd; nut ovate, obtuse, plano-convex. Hook. Br. Fl. 4th ed. p. 334. E. Bot. t. 629, (young.) E. Fl. v. iv. p. 89. Koch. Syn. p. 751. Most shady pastures; rare. Fl. May, June. 4.

Dach-bank on the south-east side of the Cloud Coppice, near Berrington. Very different in appearance from the preceding, of a paler colour, and slenderer tabi. The elongated lax spikes of which the lowermost spikelets are ay separated from each other, the smaller spikelets with fewer fertile flowers, the form of the perigynium and nut keep it quite distinct.

Have #brous, tufted. Stems 1-2 feet high, weak, partially reclining, triquetrous, angies rough upwards. Leaves of a bright grass-green, sheathing the stem, narrow, as long or longer than the stem, margins and keel rough. Spike elongated, lax, interrupted; spikelets small, sessile, the lower ones widely separated, the as proximate, generally simple, except one or two of the lowermost which are not unfrequently lengthened into a short branch bearing 2, 3 or 4 sessile sidemar såcess and then probably constitutes Smith's var. B. and that represented in Mechell's Gen, 69, 1, 33, f. 10. Bracteas small, ovate, close, membramous, more or less elongated into a setaceous hispid point; the lowermost bractea sometimes becoming completely foliaceous and longer than the whole spike. But

these vanations both of the spikelets and bracteas are observable in the same tuft of specimens Games ovate, pale, membranous, acute, mucronate, with a bright green dorsal stripe or keel, shorter than the fruit. Perigynium quite smooth, except a slight roughness on the margins of the beak.

ttt Spikelets compound.

11. C. vulpina, Linn. Great Carer. Spikelets compound, collected into a cylindrical crowded spike; fruit squarroso-patent; glumes ovate, mucronate; perigynium stipitate, ovato-acuminate, plano-convex, obscurely ribbed, margins serrulato-scabrous, orifice bind; nut broadly oval, tapering at the base, compressed, minutely elevato-punctate, crowned with the somewhat thickened base of the style; stem very acutely triangular; leaves broad. E. Bot. t. 307. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 90. Hook. Br. Fl. 4th ed. p. 334.

Wet shady places, margins of ponds and rivers; common. Fl. June. 4. Sides of pools and ditches, and canals; Rev. E. Williams's. MSS. Malt House Pool, Coalbrookdale; Mr. F. Dickinson. Oakley park, near Ludlow; Miss Me Ghie. Near Oswestry; Rev. T. Salwey.!

Canal between Shrewsbury and Uffington. Benthal Edge. Sutton Spa. Eyton on the Wildmoors, &c. Ditches between Battlefield and Albright Hussee.

Root tufted, fibrous. Stem 2 feet high, erect, leafy in the lower part only, angles very rough. Leaves deep green, broad, sharply acuminate, rough at the edges and keel. Spikes large, dense, very compound, greenish. Bracteas very rough at the edges and keels, dilated at the base, frequently tapering into a long

setaceous leafy extremity, very conspicuous when in flower, but becoming obsolete in fruit. Glumes with a rough mucro, single-nerved, brownish-green, as broad as but shorter than the fruit. Perigynium obscurely 5-ribbed on the convex side, with 6-7 short ribs at the base on the plane one, the 2 ribs on the margin strong and prominent.

Judging from the specimen no. 411. Reich. Fl. Germ. Exsicc! C. nemorosa, Rebent. appears to be only a variety of vulpina, with a shorter denser less interrupted spike, and of a paler hue, probably from growing in shade. The form of the perigynium and nut are quite identical with those of vulpina.

12. C. teretiuscula, Gooden. Lesser panicled Carex. Spike compound, oblong, consisting of ovate compact spikelets; glumes broadly ovate, acute, membranous, slightly shorter than the fruit; fruit erect; perigynium stipitate, ovato-gibbous, acuminated into a winged serrulate bidentate beak, subplano-convex, with 3-4 central nerves on the convex surface; nut turbinate, triquetrous, angles rounded, very minutely rough; base of the style not thickened. E. Bot. t. 1065. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 91. Hook. Br. Fl. 4th ed. p. 334.

Fl. June. 4.

Wet boggy margins of pools; rare. By the sides of Shomere and Hancott pools. By the side of a ditch between Adeney and Batterey, near Edgmond. Ditches at the east end of Colemere mere; Rev. E. Williams's MSS. Ellesmere and Colemere meres; J. E. Bowman, Esq. Near Oswestry; Rev. T. Salwey.

Bomere pool. Colemere mere.

Root fibrous, slightly creeping into scattered simple not dense tufts. Stems 1-2 feet high, erect, slender, with 3 sharp rough angles, the intermediate spaces convex with a prominent longitudinal rib, which renders it roundish. Leaves sheathing the lower part of the stem, erect, about as tall as the stem, deep green, rough on the edges and keel, very narrow, acute. Glumes membranous, whitish, with a strong dark brown keel. Perigynium brown, smooth and shining, of an ovate gibbous form, tapering gradually into the beak, the convex side with 3-4 raised central ribs and a strong membranous elevated wing extending along the centre of the beak downwards frequently to half the length of the perigynium ; on either side of the central ribs is a short single rib at the base, the plane side quite smooth.

13. C. paniculata, Linn. Great panicled Carex. Spike panicled, consisting of ovate spikelets arranged on the elongated diverging branches of a common axis; glumes ovate, membranous, acute, about as long as the fruit; fruit spreading; perigynium stipitate, broadly ovato-gibbous, acuminated into a winged subciliato-serrulate bidentate beak, gibboso-plano-convex, obscurely many-nerved; nut ovate, obtuse, attenuate at the base, compresso-triquetrous, minutely dotted; base of the style thickened or swollen. E. Bot. t. 1064. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 92. Hook. Br. Fl. 4th ed. p. 335.

Spongy bogs; rare. Fl. June. 2.

Ditches about Shineton, Halston, and Hardwick. Under the Stiperstones. Between Beckbury and Ruyton. Sandford Pool, near Westfelton. Croesmere Mere; Rev. E. Williams's MSS. Colemere, near Ellesmere; Rev. A. Bloxam. Twyford Vownog, near Westfelton.

Root of many strong fibres, densely tufted, not creeping. Stem 2-3 feet high, with 3 rough acute angles, intermediate spaces flat, striated. Leaves broad, rough at the edges and keel. Spikes 2-4 inches long. The beak of the perigynium on the convex surface has a winged membrane as in the preceding species.