116 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



/3 has smooth fruit, which in this case appears to constitute no 

 specific difference. 



By the description this is shown to be a very variable species. 

 Yet it is not the only one which varies in the number of the 

 barren catkins, or in having some harvenjlorets at the top of 

 the fertile catkins, which latter circumstance occurs in the last 

 described. 



With regard to its name, the Carex in question has been unfortu- 

 nate. It was first called Jlacca by Schreber, and in the year 

 following, glauca by Scopoli. Hudson ought to have retained 

 one of these, had he been informed of them, when he first de- 

 scribed the plant in his 2nd edition ; but he took the appellation 

 of recurva from Morison's synonym. I might now perhaps have 

 attempted to restore^acca, as most prevalent on the continent; 

 but as Willdenow has sanctioned recurva, and he is one of the 

 best writers upon this genus, this name, being in itself unex- 

 ceptionable, may as well remain, 



49. C. rigida. Rigid Carex. 



Stigmas two. Sheaths none. Fertile catkins ovate; the 

 lowermost stalked. Bracteas lanceolate, recurved, as 

 well as the leaves. Fruit triangular, somewhat com- 

 pressed, with a short abrupt beak. 



C. rigida. Gooden. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 2. 1 93. t. 22. f 10. Willd. Sp. 



Pl.v. 4.273. H.Br. 997. Engl. J3ot. v. 29. t.2047. Don. H. Br. 



217. 

 C. csespitosa /3. Hook. Scot. 268. 

 C. saxatilis. Fl. Dan. t.\b9. Willd. Sp. Pl.v.4.272. Sclik. 



Car. 54. t.\. and T, t.f. 40. But by no means that of Linnceus, 



which is more allied to C. pulla, n. 36. 

 C. fusca. AlUon. Pedem.v.2.369. Davall. 

 C. mucronata. Jacq. Ms. 

 C. n. 1378, Hall.Hist.v.2.\9\. 

 Cyperoides germanicum, foliis brevibus rigidis acutis, caule ro- 



tundo-triquetro, spicis parvis, squamis obtuse mucronatis, cap- 



sulis oblongis turbinatis, in angustum et longiusculum apicem 



attenuatis. Mich. Gen. 61. t.32.f.4, not 16. 



On the exposed tops of the most lofty mountains. 



On the summit of Snowdon. Mr. Hudson. Found on the top of 

 Ben Lomond in 1782. — It has since been observed, by Mr. 

 Dickson and Mr. J. Mackatj on the summits of several of the 

 Highland mountains abundantly; and on the Cheviot hills by 

 Mr. Winch. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Roots stout and woody, creeping widely by means of scaly branch- 

 ing runners, with strong, thick, downy fibres. Whole plant 



