114 MONOECIA-TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



47. Q. pa?iicea. Pink-leaved Carex. 



Sheaths elongated, about half the length of the flower- 

 stalks. Fertile catkins one or two, distant ; lower one 

 rather lax. Fruit tumid, smooth, cloven at the summit. 

 Stem smooth, obtusely triangular. 



C. panicea. Linn. Sp. PL 1387. mild. v. 4. 280. Fl. Br. 998. 

 Engl. Bot.v. 21. L 1505. Hook. Scot. 267. Rel. Rudb. 2./. 31. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 261. Leers 203. t. 15./. 5. Schk. Car. 1 10. t. L. 1. 

 /. 100. Ehrh. Calam. 80. 



C.n.l405. Hall. Hist. V. 2. \99. 



Cyperoides foliis caryophylleis, caule rotundo-triquetro, spicis e 

 rarioribus et tumidioribus vesicis compositis. Mich. Gen.6\. 

 t.S2.f.\\. 



Gramen cyperoides foliis caryophylleis, spicis e rarioribus et tu- 

 midioribus granis compositis. Raii Sijn, 418. Pluk, Almag. 178. 

 Phyt.t.9\.f.7. 



In meadows and moist pastures. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root creeping. Stems about a foot high, upright, striated^ smooth, 

 with 3 blunt angles. Leaves chiefly towards the root, glaucous, 

 rough-edged, flat, erect, half the height of the stem ; their keel 

 smooth, except near the summit. Bracteas erect, leafy, with 

 long pale sheaihs. Fertile catkins usually two, about an inch 

 long, erect, rather distant, linear ; the lowermost lax and elon- 

 gated, especially in its lower part, standing on a slender trian- 

 gular stalk, twice as long as the sheath ; the upper one more 

 dense, with a shorter stalk, and smaller bractea. Scales ovate, 

 acute, dark-brown, with a narrow white edge and green keel. 

 Barren catkin for the most part solitary, lanceolate, acute, 

 dense, with dark-brown, elliptic-lanceolate scales. Stam. 3. 

 Stigm. 3, nearly sessile. Fruit green or yellowish, smooth, 

 ovate, or obovate, ribbed, inflated, longer than the scales, 

 bluntish, without a beak, but terminating in 2 small teeth. 

 Seed short, triangular, brown, very frequently infested with 

 usiilago or smut, by which it swells and turns into a sooty 

 powder. 



The herbage, when young, much resembles C. recurva, but the 

 characters of the two species difl^"er essentially. 



48. C. recurva. Glaucous Heath Carex. 



Sheaths short. Fertile catkins two or three, cylindrical, 

 dense, drooping, on very long recurved stalks. Fruit 

 elliptical, triangular, roughish, obtuse, slightly notched. 



C. recurva. Huds. 413. Gooden. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 2. 184. Willd. 

 Sp.Pl.v. 4. 298. Fl. Br. 999. Engl. Bat. v. 21. t. 1506. Hook. 

 Scot. 268. Fl. Dan. t. 1051. 



