CAREX 543 



This is rather a pretty species from its glaucous foliage, hence the 

 origin of the name Carnation Grass. 



C.Jlacca is a most variable sedge ; we have as extreme forms the pale 

 glumed plant "with long cylindric spikelets, which is found plentiful!}' 

 on our limestone and chalk soils, and the plant with rich chocolate - 

 coloured glumes, with shorter and more oval spikelets, which occurs 

 near Sandhurst. 



In some plants the perigynia are nearly smooth, in others, especially 

 in marshy meadows, they are very rough. Occasionally, as at 

 Abingdon, &c., the spikelets are compound at the base, an analogous 

 condition, but in a less marked degree, to the var. sygostachyca of 

 C acuta. It is the var. Parlatoreana, Cesati, and the var. aggreyata, under 

 C. glauca of Keichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. viii. t. 648. A form with 

 the female spikelets having male flowers also occurs. A curious 

 monstrosity, under the name of C. recurva, collected near Windsor by 

 Mr. Gotobed, is contained in Herb. Smith in the Linnean Society. 



C. Jlacca is found in all the bordering counties. 



[C. LiMOSA, Linn. Sp. PI. 977(1753), and Herb. 21 (this number includes a scrap 

 of C. paniculata). Syme, E. B. x. 119, t. 1647. Is found in the New 

 Forest.] 



[C. DiGiTATA, Linn. Sp. PI. 975 (1753), and Herb. 14. 



Syme, E. B. x. 122, t. 1650. Is recorded for Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.] 



[C. HUMiLis, Leyser, Fl. Hal. 175 (1761). 



C. clnndestina, Good. 1. c. 167(1792). Syme, E. B. x. 124, t. 1651. Is recorded 

 for Hampshire (Breamore Down) and Wiltshire, and is a not unlikely plant 

 to be fovind on our chalk downs on the Wiltshire or Hampshire border.] 



[C. MONTAKA, Linn. Fl. Suec. ed. 2, 328, and Herb. 15, not of Sp. PI. 975. 

 There is another sheet marked C. montana, which does not contain that 

 species. 

 Syme, E. B. x. 125, t. 1652. Is recorded for Chalfont St. Peters in Bucks 

 and Hants ; it may possibly be found in the Loddon or Kennet districts.] 



C. pilulifera, Linn. Sp. PI. 976 (1753% not of Herb. Pill-headed Sedge. 

 C. montana, Huds. Fl. Angl. 407 (1762), not of Linn. Fl. Suec. but of 



Sp. PI. 975. 

 Top. Bot. 468. Syme, E. B. x. 127, t. 1653. Nyman, 774. Fl. Oxf. 325. 

 Native. Ericetal. Heaths, dry woods, peaty ground. Local. Not 



very common, except in the south-west of the county, where its 



decumbent fruiting stems are not an unfrequent feature in the 



grassy heaths. P. April-May. 

 First record. C. pilulifei-a, Dr. Noehden in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Wytham. 



2. Ock. Bagley. Wootton, Boswell. Marcham, Walker. Dench- 



worth, Wait. Tubney. 



3. Pang. Cold Ash Common, W. M. Rogers. Bucklebury. Care. 



Hermitage. Curridge Common. Streatley. 



