MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 99 



late, of numerous, rusty, h\unt scales, usually solitary, rarely 

 accompanied by another much smaller ; and sometimes there are 

 a few hRvren florets at the summit of a fertile catkin, especially 

 when the uppermost of the latter are aggregate, and shortened. 

 Sta7n. 3. Stigm. 3. Fruit green, ovate, triangular, ribbed, 

 smooth, with a deeply-cloven beak, whose orifice has narrow 

 membranous edges. Seed obovate, with 3 angles. 

 This Carex has long puzzled the Swedish as well as Swiss bota- 

 nist5. It is mentioned by Wahlenberg, StockJi. Trans, for 1803, 

 157, (under the name I have adopted from Dr. Swartz,) as the 

 same with my hinervis, a very different plant. It is C. iMielicho' 



feri of Mr. D. Don in Hooker's FL Scot., and I have Swiss spe- 

 cimens confirming the above references to Haller. The plate 

 of Fl. Dan. t. 1049, having a pointed scale accom])anying the 



fruit, formerly misled me to believe that plate miglit represent 

 C. distans ; but it certainly belongs to our present plant, as Mr. 

 Davall long ago suggested. 



29. C ph(BOStachya, Short-brown-spiked Carex. 



Sheaths shorter than the flower-stalks. Fertile catkins 

 two, distant, erect, ovate. Fruit ovate, triangular, 

 smooth, with a cloven beak. Scales of the barren catkin 

 pointed ; of the fertile ones obtuse. 



C. salina. DonH.Br.2\Q. 



On the Highland rocks of Scotland. 



Upon rocks on the high mountains of Cairn Gorm, Inverness-shire; 

 also on the Clova mountains ; and on Ben Macdowie, near the 

 head of the river Dee. Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial. June. 



Roots creeping extensively, with long, smooth, pale, branched 

 fibres. Stem solitary, 5 or 6 inches high, erect, somewhat tri- 

 angular, furrowed, smooth ; leafy at the base. Leaves upright, 

 or a little spreading, flat, taper-pointed, smooth, about half tlie 

 height of the stem. Bracteas similar, but smaller, with con- 

 siderable, rather swelling, .shealhs. hlower- stalks triangular, 

 smooth, longer than the sheaths, though shorter than the brac- 

 teas. Fertile catkins distant, nearly half an inch long, ovate, 

 rather dense, with broad, bluntish, jiointless, dark-brown scales ; 

 barren one solitary, ovate, with ovate, dark-brown, acute, often 

 considerably ])ointe(l, .<fa//e.s. Stam.'A. Slii^ni.'.i. f'/v/i/ green 

 tinged with brown, ovate, or elliptical, triangular, scarcely ribbed, 

 smooth, witli a broadish brown hcak, projecting beyond the 

 scale, acutely cloven, but less deejjly than in tlu" last, and des- 

 titute of the white mr'nibraiioiis border for which tliat species 

 is remarkable. 



Very distinct from the preceding, tlu)ugh the ciiaracteristic marks 



