GLUMALS. : 32 SEDGES. 
forwards ; paleg of the hermaphrodite floret smoothish. 
Habitat. Cultivated in Southern Europe, and India. 
Quality. Grain nutritious, ee: 
Uses, Employed as food in the South and Middle of Europe, and in India, where 
better grain may not be had. A useful agricultural plant in such countries 
because of its power of resisting drought. §, germanica is a larger variety, with — 
a longer involucre, 
Natural Order, Setges; Cyperacee. (V. K., p. 117.) 
Prevailing Quality. Demulcent. 
Carex... Linneus. 
Flowers unisexual. Males with one glume. Females inclosed in a flas 
shaped involucre. 
1. C. arenaria Linneeus.—(GERMAN SarsaPaRiLia.) Fig. 62. 
Spike decompound, oblong, or somewhat ovate; upper spikes male, low 
female ; stigmas 2; fruit ovate plano-convex, 7-ribbed, with a rough — 
wing from the middle upwards; stem rough at the angles near the 
summit ; rhizome tough, creeping. Ss 
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Habitat. n loose sand of the sea-coast. : 
: Qual hy. womgenaes sweetish, with a disagreeable earthy after-taste, diaphoretie 
Uses. A substitute for Sarsaparilla. 
2. C. hirta Linneus. 
Covered with fine hairs ; female spikes ovate or cylindrical, distant ; ™ 
2 or 3; sheaths of bracts nearly as long as the peduncles; fruit 
tumid, with a deeply-cloven beak. 
Habitat. In wet meadows, woods, &e. Common. Quality and Uses as in the 
Fig. 62.—Carex arenaria; diminished in size. 
