Bot. Pl. carices. [L. cārex sedge.] A large genus, N.O. Cyperaceæ, comprising various grassy-looking plants; a sedge.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. xxxv. (1495), 624. Carix, is Sedge is an herbe moost harde and sharpe.
1833. J. Hodgson, in J. Raine, Mem. (1858), II. 305. Narrow haughs edged with carexes.
1834. Mudie, Brit. Birds (1841), II. 27. Carex, and stunted rushes.
1859. Darwin, Orig. Spec., iii. (1878), 56. Not counting grasses and carices.
