66 Trwiimciions. 



17. Glauca ov Recurva. — Common, with glaucous leaves, peii- 

 gynium rough, caused by depressed points. Spikes pendulous 

 when I'ipe. 



18. C. Pallescens. — Very neat — as neat as Canescens ; pale 

 green hue ; fertile spikes short and sessile, with inflated perigynia; 

 leaves slightly hairy. Common in drier situations than most Carices. 



19. C. Panicea. — Very common in damp places. Like C. 

 Glauca, but spike not so compact. Leaves so glaucous that it is 

 called the pink-leaved sedge. Only to be confounded with Glauca. 

 Perigynium dotted. 



20. C. Penchda. — Great pendulous sedge, 3 to 5 feet high. 

 Fertile spikes distant, very long, cylindrical, and drooping. Pedi- 

 cels concealed in the long, leafy bracts. One barren and some- 

 times six fertile spikes. Not very common. On banks of river 

 Ken, and some very large specimens on the Dropping Craig, Rerrick. 



21. G. Praecox. — This, with the next three — Pilulifera, Hirta, 

 and Filiformis — has the perigynium downy. Praecox and 

 Pilulifera very like each other ; distinguished by Pilulifera 

 having no bract sheath. Leaves in tufts. Spikelets crowded, 

 sessile, and short, the female being oblong ; while Pilulifera 

 has them almost globular. Fruit crowned by a minute ring ; 

 yellow anthers. Very common and very early ; in dry ])laces. 



22. C. Pilulifera. — Very common, like Praecox, but no bract 

 sheath; fruit sub-globose, while that of Praecox is trigonous; 

 root tufted, while that of Praecox is creeping. 



23. C. Hirta. — Whole plant downy ; several male and several 

 female spikelets. Easily known by its broad, downy leaves 

 and spikes, and cannot be mistaken for any other Carex. In 

 abundance between Creetown and Ravenshall. 



24. C. Filiformis. — Rare and local. Loch of the Lowes, Bal- 

 maclellan, and ditches among the hills. Very long, channelled, 

 narrow, involute leaves ; very long bract. 



25. C. Extensa. — Only found on the shore, as in Colvend and 

 Rerwick ; like a large form of C. Flava. Leaves long, narrow, 

 and bracts very long, and so called the long-bracteated Carex ; 

 stem more or less curved ; fertile spikes short and sessile. In 

 Flava they are stalked, though the stalk is concealed by the sheaths 

 of the bracts ; the lowest bract in Extensa is almost hoi-izontal — 

 perigynium is dotted. 



26. G. Flava. — Yellow Carex, very common in wet places ; like 

 Extensa, but smaller. Bracts have short sheaths hiding the stalks 



