308 WILSON’S OBSERVATIONS. 
at the edges, light yellowish brown, with a green midrib. 
Fruit longer than the scales, ovate-lanceolate, tapering, 
smooth, erect or slightly recurved. 
6. Carex limosa. Anglesea, July 19, 1828. Root only 
moderately creeping, and that not horizontally. Stem often 
divided below the ground, fertile one acutely triangular with a 
prominent rib in each of the sides, roughish near the top, 
otherwise smooth, longer than the leaves, though the leaves of 
the barren shoots are taller than the fertile stem. The leaves 
are not flat but compresso-carinate, narrow, rough-edged 
above. Bracteas like the leaves, with a purplish short sheath. 
Scales of the fertile catkin roundish-ovate, pointed with a 
3-ribbed keel—those of the barren ones ovate-lanceolate. Seed 
pointed with the lower part of the style, which often projects 
beyond the hardened corolla. Barren stems with several 
joints, at each of which is found a bud on the removal of the 
leaves, the intermediate spaces between the joints yellow and 
shining. 
T. Carex pulla. Mael Greadha, &c., July 23,1827. Root 
creeping. Stem with convex sides and sharpish angles, 
rough-edged above, though sometimes rounded and smooth. 
Leaves slightly keeled or compresso-carinate, dark green, as 
long as the rigid stem. Bracteas auricled. Lower catkin 
always stalked, the stalk sometimes very long, and sometimes 
the lower bractea has a very short sheath. Fertile catkins 
ovate, obtuse, often solitary. Scales crowded, ovate, rather 
blunt, shorter than the fruit, deep shining purple, with a rib 
of the same colour, not very prominent. Scales of the 
barren catkin oblong and more obtuse. Stigmas two. Fruit 
elliptical, inflated, dark purple, with a very short notched 
beak, spreading. 
Grows in swamps about springs in the higher regions of 
the Scóttish mountains. ; 
8. Carex rigida. Snowdon, June 27, 1828. Bracteas 
often erect, not more frequently recurved. Stigmas nearly or 
quite sessile, erect, not spreading, minutely papillose. Beak 
