C A It E X elongata.
Elongated Oar ex.
MONOECIA Triandria.
Gen. Char. Male, Catkin imbricated. Calf of one
scale. Cor. none. Female, Catkin imbricated-
Cal. of one scale. Cor. none. Stigmas 2 or 3.
Seed clothed with a swelling tunic.
Spec. Char. Spikelets numerous, oblong, rather distant^
naked. Glumes ovate. Tunic ovate, pointed,
cloven, recurved, many-ribbed, longer than the
glumes.
Svn. Carex elongata. Linn. Sp. PL 1 383; excluding
the synonyms of FI. Suec. Bauh. and Morison.
Schhuhr. Car. n. 39. t. E .ƒ. 25.
C. multiculmis. Ehrh. Calam. 88.
Cyperoides polystachyon, spicis laxis paniculam veluti
componentibus. Scheucfiz. Agr. 487. t. 11 . f 4.
A f t e r the elaborate dissertation in the Linnaean Society’s
Transactions, v. 2, by the present Bishop of Carlisle, it is
not easy to add any thing new upon British Carices. We are
therefore the more obliged to Mr. Jonathan Salt, who discovered
this addition to our Flora in June 1807, in a marshy
place at Aldwark, near the river Don, below Sheffield. It is
indeed, though very distinct, and well known to German
botanists, a species about which Linnaeus was bv no means
clear, his only correct synonym, which the late Dr. J, Sibthorp
verified for ns formerly by Scheuchzer’s specimen at Oxford,
being quoted in the Sp. PL with a doubt.
Root perennial, tufted. Stems above a foot high, triangular,
rough-edged, as are also the leaves. Spikelets from 7 to 14,
oblong, alternate, the upper ones crowded. Glumes ovate,
acute, glossy, brown with a green rib and pale edge, shorter
than the fruit, which is copious, green, ovate or elliptical,
pointed, cloven, strongly ribbed, at length somewhat recurved.
Stigmas 2. Male flowers inferior, few. This species
should follow C. curta, t. 1386.