Reeds, Grasses, Sedges and Rushes 85 



Close beside the margins of the alpine lakes and streams 

 may this soft fluffy-headed Sedge be found. It has a tall 

 culm, two or three slender channelled leaves, and a single 

 terminal white or cream-coloured head composed of fine 

 silky bristles. 



Eriophoriiin angusti folium, or Cotton Grass, has very 

 narrow leaves, and is a smaller, more delicate plant than the 

 preceding species. 



ARCTIC KOBRESIA 



Kohresia bipartita. Sedge Family 



Culms: solitary or tufted, smooth. Leaves: unfolded, shorter than 

 the culm. Spike: composed of sev^eral linear, appressed or ascending 

 spikelets. Fruit: achenes sessile. 



This slender mountain Sedge has a number of short, nar- 

 row leaves, and flowers growing in a terminal spike. A 

 very common plant. 



Kohresia Bellardi, or Arctic Elyna, is more densely tufted 

 than the preceding species, and the margins of the leaves 

 are revolute. 



TUSSOCK SEDGE 



Carex festiva. Sedge Family 



Stems: triangular. Leaves: the upper longest, commonly shorter than 

 the stem. Heads: dark, ferruginous, spikes ovoid, contiguous in an ob- 

 long or crowded spherical cluster. 



These grass-like Sedges are extremely numerous. The 

 Tussock Sedge has brown-purple spikes, and rough-mar- 

 gined leaves. 



Care.v pyrenaica, or Dwarf Sedge, is a small species, very 

 leafy at the base, and densely-flowered. It grows at high 

 altitudes. 



Carex Mertensii, or Merten's Sedge, has slender, erect 



