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5. CA'REX. CAREX. SEDGE. 



Barren flowers numerous, arranged in one or more, oblong, 

 dense catkins, with scales imbricated all round. Calyx a lance- 

 shaped, permanent chaff-scale. Corolla none. Filaments three 

 hair-like, longer than the scales; anthers linear, two-celled. 



Fertile flowers numerous, arranged in one or more, oblong, 

 dense catkins. Calyx a lance-shaped chaff-scale. Corolla a com- 

 pressed, ribbed, permanent husk. Germen superior, roundish, 

 three-cornered, smooth. Style one, terminal, cylindrical, short ; 

 stigmas three, awl-shaped, long, downy, deciduous. Seed round- 

 ish, three-cornered, loosely covered by the enlarged husk. Named 

 from ceiro, to cut. 



* Catkin solitary, simple. 



1. C. dioica. Creeping dioecious Carer. Spikes simple, dioecious ; fruit 

 egg-shaped, ascending, pointed, striated, rough at the edges ; root creep- 

 ing. Four or five inches high : leaves keeled : scales of the catkins 



brown, with a green rib and white edges. Perennial : flowers in May and 

 June : "rows in boggy places : not uncommon. Eng. Bot. vol. viii. pi. 543. 

 Eng. Ft. vol. iv. p. 77. 1285. 



2. C. Davallidna. Prickly ditEcivus Carex. Spikes simple, dioecious ; 

 fruit lance-shaped, deflected, beaked, ribbed, rough-edged near the top ; 



root tufted. Five or six inches high. Perennial: flowers in May and 



June: grows in marshy places: rare. Near Bath. Eng. Bot. vol. xxx. 

 pi. 2123. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 78. 



3. C. pulicdris. Flea Carex. Spike simple ; flowers of the upper half 

 barren, of the lower fertile; fruit deflected, polished, tapering at both 



ends ; stigmas two. Straws from four to twelve inches high, slender, 



smooth. Perennial: flowers in June : grows in boggy places : common. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. xv. pi. 1501. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 78. 1287. 



4. C. rupeitris. Rock Carex. Spike linear, with a few fertile, lax 



flowers at the base ; fruit inversely egg-shaped ; stigmas three. From 



three to eight inches high. Perennial : flowers in August: discovered in 

 1836, by Mr. Dickie, near Loch Callader, Aberdeenshire. Sutherland. 

 Brit. FL 4th ed. p. 331. 1288. 



5. C. pauciflora. Few-flovered Carex. Spikes simple, loose, few- 

 flowered, the uppermost flowers barren; fruit deflected, awl-shaped, 



smooth ; stigmas three.- From four to eight inches high, erect, 



furrowed: fruit pale-reddish. Perennial: flowers in June: grows in 

 boggy places on high mountains : rare. Goatfell ; Ben Nevis ; Ben Lo^ 

 mond; Hill of Fare, Aberdeenshire: near Crag Lake, Northumberland. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. xxix. pi. 2041. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 79. 1289. 



** Catkins or spikelets aggregate, each composed of barren Jiowers 

 and fertile flowers. Stigmas two. 



6. C. stelluldta. Little prickly Carex. Spikelets three or four, 

 roundish, rather distant ; barren flowers inferior ; fruit spreading, egg- 

 shaped, with a flat beak, rough at the edges. Straw about eight inches 



high, triangular, with roughish edges: fruit brown. Perennial: flowers 

 ia May and June: grows in boggy heaths and meadows : common. Eng. 

 Bot. vol. xii. pi. 806. Eng. Fl. vol.iv. p. 80, 1290. 



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