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drooping, fruit scarcely longer than the cal. lax especially the 



lower ones ovate with a short beak bifid at the point. Schkuhr. 



Car. t. Mmmm. f. 198. E. B. t. 2293. C. nivicola, D. Don, 



MSS. ined. 

 HAB. Rocky places on Craig-na-Chailleach in Breadalbane, Mr. Bor- 



rer. Summit of Cairn Gorum, G. Don. Mountains of Clova and 



Aberdeenshire, D. Don. Fl. June, July. If. . 

 Stems 8 12 inches high. Leaves dark green, linear. Glumes ovate, 



ferruginous with a green nerve. Capsule green, till it is fully ripe. 



The fig. in E. B. is very characteristic. 



21. C. capillaris (capillary Carex), common sheath half the 

 length of the flowerstalks, fertile spikes few-flowered lax 

 drooping, fruit as long as the ovate membranaceous deciduous 

 cal. oblongo- ovate acuminate. Light/, p. 557. E.B.t. 2069. 



HAB. Highland mountains, as Ben Teskerny, Craig-nu-liet, and Mae I 

 Ghyrdy, Breadalbane, Dr. Stuart. Ben Lawers, Maugh. Fl. June, 

 July. I/ . 



Two to four inches high. Leaves mostly radical, scarcely half the 

 length of the stem. One single bractea includes the lower part of 

 all the peduncles with its sheathing base. Sterile spike 1, frequently 

 below the fertile ones. Fruit dark brown, shining. 



22. C. limosa (Mud Car ex), sheaths extremely short scarcely 

 any, fertile spikes oblongo-ovate pendulous, bracteas subseta*- 

 ceous, cal. acute as long as the fruit, fruit elliptico-rotundate 

 striated shortly mucronated. Light/', p. 556. E. B. t. 2043. 



HAB. Bogs and marshes, as at Tullybanchar, half a mile W. of Com- 

 rie j near Crieff; &c., Dr. Stuart. Marsh near Forfar, plentiful, 



D. Don. Appin, Capt. Carmichael. Marshes on mountains be- 

 tween Lochs Earn and Tay, G. Don. Fl. June, if . 



Root very much creeping. Stems 8 10 inches high. Leaves.very 

 narrow. Fertile spikelets 2 ; cal. glumes dark brown, subapiculate. 

 Fruit greenish brown. 



23. C. rariflora (loose-flowered alpine Carex\ sheaths very 

 short almost none, fertile spikes narrow oblong very few-flow- 

 ered lax pendulous, bracteas subsetaceous, cal. acute longer 

 and broader than the fruit, fruit ovate somewhat acute striated. 



E. jB.f.2516. 



HAB. Mountain at the head of the Glen of Doll, Angus-shire moun- 

 tains. FL June. I/ . 



Root creeping, as in the last sp. Culms about 6 inches in height, 

 Leaves half their length, but broader than in the last. Cal. glumes 

 very deep brown. Fruit ovate. Very near C. limosa, and united 

 with it by Wahlenberg. My specimens, however, appear distinct. 



24. C. Pseudo-cyperus (Cyperus-like Carex), sheath, scarcely 

 any (except sometimes to the lowermost bractea), fertile spikes 

 upon long footstalks cylindrical pendulous, bracteas very leafy, 

 cal. setaceous, fruit oblong very much acuminate cloven at the 

 tips striated. Light/, p. 559. E. B. t. 242. 



