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Fruit swollen, obtuse, without veins, greenish brown. Beak very 

 short. 

 Common. In bogs and marshes. (B) P. 6. Possil marsh ; Frankfield loch, &c. 



24. C. PALLESCENS, L. Pale Carex. Stems tufted, leafy at 

 the base, triquetrous, rough above, 12 18 in. high. Le. slightly 

 downy. Barren spikelet single, sessile, light brown; fertile 2, 

 rarely 3, ovate, stalks longer than the sheaths, approximate. 

 Bracts leafy, shortly sheathing, Gl. mucronate. Fruit ovate- 

 oblong, swollen, veined, obtuse with no beak, or very short. 



Not common. Marshy places. (B) P. 6. Crossbasket ; marsh near Milngavie. 



25. C. LiMOSA, L. Mud Carex. Rhizome creeping, 8 12 in. 

 high. Le. narrow, channelled, rough on the edge. Fertile spike- 

 lets 2, on long peduncles, slightly drooping. Lower bract leafy, 

 without a sheath, or with a scarious auricle. Gl. ovate- 

 acuminate,, dark brown. Fruit compressed, elliptical, strongly 

 ribbed, not distinctly beaked. 



Rare. Marshes at Bowling, the late Win. Qourlie, Esq. (S) P. 6. 



Var. irrigua, Hoppe. Le. broader, flat, short, rough at the 

 triquetrous point. Lower glumes long and narrow, upper broader 

 and shorter, midrib pale brown. Fr. faintly ribbed. 

 " Bogs and marshes, near Lanark," Mr. Dunlop. 



ttt Fruit smooth. Beak bifid. 

 1. Fertile spikelets erect. 



26. C. EXTENSA, Gooden. Long -bracteate Carex. Stems tufted, 

 smooth, about 12 in. high. Le. long, stiff, erect, convolute, 

 Barren spikelet 1, fertile 3 4, nearly sessile, almost close 

 together. Bracts leafy, lowest one nearly horizontal, often 4 5 

 in. long, convolute. Glumes slightly mucronate. Fruit swollen, 

 ovate, ribbed, tapering into a smooth, bifid, conical beak. 



Frequent. In marshes on the sea coast. (B) P. G. Skelinorlie; near Largs; 

 Cumbrae and Arran. 



27. C. FLAVA. Yellow Carex. Stems densely tufted, 6 12 

 in. high, obtuse-angled. Le. broad, flat. Barren spikelet 1, 

 fertile 1 3, sub-sessile, globose or oval. Bracts leafy, scarcely 

 sheathing, at length spreading or deflexed. Glumes blunt. Fruit 

 ovate, swollen, ribbed; beak deflexed and tapering, rough-edged. 

 Nut minutely punctate. 



Frequent. In turfy bogs and pastures. (B) P. 56. Cathkin hills; Possil 

 marsh; Gourock; Cumbrae and Arran. 



Var. (Ederi. Spikelets close together. Beak long, rough- 

 edged, straight. Fruit smaller than in the species. 



28. C. FULVA, Gooden. Tawny Carex. Stems slightly tufted, 

 about 12 in. high, acutely triangular, scabrous. Le. narrow, flat. 



