CL. XXI.] MONOECIA TRIANDKJA. 353 



30. C. plueostdchya. Short brown-spiked Carer. Sheaths shorter than 

 the flower-stalks ; fertile catkins two, distant, egg-shaped, erect ; fruit 

 egg-shaped, three-cornered, smooth, with a cleft beak ; scales of the barren 



catkin pointed, of the fertile ones obtuse. Stem five or six inches high, 



erect, furrowed, smooth. Perennial: flowers in June: grows in rocky 

 places on the higher mountains of Scotland. Eng. Eot. Sttppl. pi. 2731. 

 Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 99. 1314. 



31. C. cap'Mdris. Dwarf Hair-like Carex. Common sheath much 

 shorter than the drooping, hair-like flower-stalks ; fertile catkins egg- 

 shaped, rather loose, pendulous ; fruit egg-shaped, three-cornered, pointed, 



ribless, membranous at the tip ; root fibrous. From two to four inches 



high. Perennial : flowers in July and August : grows on the higher 

 mountains of Scotland. Eng. But. vol. xxix. pi. 2069. Eng. FL vol. iv. 

 p. 100. 1315. 



32. C. rariflnra. "Loose-flowered Alpine Carex. Sheaths very short, 

 scarcely any ; fertile catkins loose, drooping, few-flowered ; fruit inversely 



egg-shaped, slightly pointed, ribless ; root creeping. Straws about six 



inches high. Perennial: flowers in July : grows at the head of a glen, 

 called the Dole, in the Clova mountains, found there by Mr. G. Don. 

 Sutherland. Eng. Bot. vol. xxv. pi. 2516. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 100. 



1316. 



33. C. Pseudo-cyperus. Cyperus-like Carex. Sheaths scarcely any ; 

 fertile catkins dense, cylindrical, drooping, many-flowered ; scales awl- 

 shaped ; fruit lance-shaped, spreading, furrowed, rough-edged, with a 



deeply cleft beak. Straw about a foot high, with three sharp, rough 



corners. Perennial : flowers in June : grows in marshy places, and by 

 rivers and lakes : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. iv. pi. 242. Eng. Fl. 

 vol. iv. p. 101. 1317. 



34. C.limosa. Green and gold Carex. Sheaths scarcely any; fertile 

 catkins egg-shaped, dense, drooping, many-flowered ; fruit broadly ellip- 

 tical, compressed, ribbed, smooth-edged, without a beak ; root creeping. 

 Straws about eight inches high, three-cornered, roughish. Peren- 

 nial : flowers in July : grows in bogs and marshes : not common. Eng. 

 Bot. vol. xxix. pi. 2043. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 102. 1318. 



35. C. ustuldta. Scorched Alpine Carex. Sheaths very short ; fertile 

 catkins egg-shaped, dense, pendulous ; fruit elliptical, compressed, rough- 

 edged, with a cleft beak ; root tufted, somewhat creeping. Straw 



three or four inches high. Perennial : flowers in July : grows on the 

 higher mountains of Scotland : very rare. Eng. Bot. vol. xxxiv. pi. 2404. 

 Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 103. 1319. 



36. C. atrdta. Black Carex. Sheaths scarcely any ; catkins stalked, 

 egg-shaped, drooping, the terminal one with many barren flowers at the 



base ; fruit elliptical, compressed, smooth, with a notched beak. 



Straw about a foot high, three-cornered, smooth ; catkins reddish-black. 

 Perennial: flowers in June and July : grows on the higher mountains 

 of Scotland. Eng. Bot. vol. xxix. pi. 2044. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 103. 



1320. 



37. C. patlescens. Pale Carex. Sheaths scarcely any ; fertile catkins 

 cylindrical, stalked, somewhat drooping; fruit inversely egg-shaped, 



three-cornered, inflated, smooth, with a minute abrupt point. Straws 



a foot or more high, acutely three-cornered ; catkins pale-green. Peren- 



