180 87. CYPERACE^E, 



broad, very long. Bracts short, ovate, acute. Spikelets nume- 

 rous, panicled ; branches long, diverging. Fruit ovate, flat on 

 the front, swollen on the back, with a deeply bifid, fringed beak. 



Not common. In marshes and bogs. (B) P. 6. " Kenmuir and banks of the 

 Clyde at New Kilpatrick," Hopk.; Cumbrae and Arran. 



9. C. TERETIUSCULA, Gooden. Lesser-panicled Carex. A 

 smaller plant than the last, 1 2 ft. high, with the spikelets com- 

 pound and contracted. Stem bluntly angular (trigonous), slender, 

 rough above. Le. narrow, glaucous. Bracts small, membranous, 

 ovate, acute. Fruit ovate, convex on the back, faintly nerved. 

 Beak shortly bifid, winged, and serrulate on the edge. 



Rare. In boggy meadows. (B) P. 6. " In a bog on the banks of the Clyde, 2 

 miles beyond Hamilton," Hopk. Little Cumbrae; Arran. 



10. C. VULPINA, L. Great Carex. Stem 2 3ft. high, sharply 

 triquetrous, rough. Le. broad, margin scabrous. Spikelets simple, 

 crowded, large, green. Outer bracts with fine leafy points. 

 Glumes shorter than the fruit, mucronate. Fr. plano-convex, 

 ovate-acuminate. Beak bifid, finely serrate. When ripe the fruit 

 spreads considerably. 



Frequent. Wet shady places. (B) P. 6. "Banks of the Clyde," Ure; Bute; 

 Cumbrae and Arran. 



11. C. MTJRICATA, L. Greater -prickly Carex. Stems 1 2 ft. 

 high, with rough angles. Le. narrow, shorter than the stem. 

 Bracts small, setaceous. Spikelets 4 6, mostly crowded in a 

 .terminal spike, or with the lower ones rather distant. Gl. 

 mucronate, brown. Fruit ovate-acuminate, plano-convex ; beak 

 broad, flat, with sharp edges, finely serrate, bifid; spreading when 

 ripe ; yellowish brown. 



Not common. Gravelly and marshy pastures. (B) P. 5 6. " Rock below 

 Cathcart Castle," D. Don. Near Inverkip ; Cumbrae and Arran. 



12. C. ARENARIA, L. Sea Carex. Rhizome creeping, often 

 10 12 ft. long ; sending up stems at intervals of 4 8 in. Stems 

 triangular, rough, 610 in. high. Le. slightly keeled. Spikelets 

 clustered, sessile, upper ones barren, lower fertile, intermediate 

 ones barren at the end. Lower bract leaf-pointed, slender, the 

 upper resembling glumes. Fruit flattened, ovate, bifid, with a 

 winged serrulate margin, shorter than the acuminate glume. 



Common. On the sandy sea shores. (B) P. G. Near Helensburgh; Dunoon; 

 Cumbrae and Arran. 



D. Terminal spikelets barren, lower fertile. Stigmas 2. 



13. C. VULG^RIS, Fries. Common Carex. Rhizome slightly 

 creeping. Stems laxly tufted, weak, and acutely triangular, 

 10 12 in. high, rough toicards the top. Le. narrow, rolled in- 

 wards when dry. Barren spikelets 1 2, fertile 3 4, compact, 

 sub -sessile, cylindrical. Lower bract leafy, not sheathing, with a 



