460 GYPERAOEuE. [Carex. 



43. C. hu'milis, Leyss. ; stems shorter than the stiff involute curved 

 leaves, bracts glumaceous, spikelets very remote slender lax-fid., perigynia 

 stipitate narrow-obovoid 3-gonous pubescent embraced by the very broad 

 scarious glumes, beak short entire or 0. G. elandestHna, Good. 



Dry grassy hills, Hereford, Gloster, Wilts, Somerset, Dorset, Hants ; fl. May. 

 Rootstock very stout, creeping, tufted. Stems 1-3 in., 3-gonous, smooth, 

 concealed amongst the narrow leaves. Spikelets white, scattered up the 

 whole stem ; male solitary, narrow, j-§ in. ; female 3-5, £-| in., enveloped 

 in the obtuse apiculate or truncate scarious silvery bracts. Glumes silvery, 

 clouded with pink and green. Perigynia greenish, 1-ribbed on 2 faces. Nut 

 3-quetrous, pale brown, smooth, beaked. — Distrib. From Belgium southd., 

 Siberia. 



*** Stigmas 3 (2-3 in 59, paludosa). Fruit with a long, usually slender, often 

 forked beak (beak short in 46 externa, 55 strigosa, 56 vesicaria sub-sp. 

 saxatilis, 59 paludosa, and 60 riparia ; see also 34 vaginata and 35 capil- 

 laris). 



t Perigynia hairy, nerved. Male spikelets several. 



44. C. hir'ta, L. ; leaves long flat hairy, bracts leafy, sheaths long, 

 spikelets long-pedicelled erect cylindric, perigynia ovoid turgid ribbed 

 much longer than the ovate awned glumes, beak 2-cuspidate. 



Damp copses, &c, from Inverness southd. ; ascends to 1,200 ft. in N. England ; 

 Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. May-June. — Rootstock long, creeping, jointed, 

 scaly. Stems slender, 1-2 ft., leafy, glabrous, 3-gonous, shining. Leaves \-\ 

 in. broad, sheaths split. Spikelets : male 2-3, close, |-1 in., pale, glistening ; 

 female 2-5, 1-1| in., green, distant ; pedicel exserted; lower bract exceeding 



• the stem. Glumes small, broad, scarious, midrib green ; awn rigid scabrid 

 often spreading ; of male lanceolate, hyaline. Perigynia large, £ in., sessile, 

 plano-convex, narrowed into the beak. Nut 3-quetrous, beaked, pale brown. 

 — Distrib. Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia. — Var. hirtcefor'mis, Pers., with 

 glabrous leaves and glumes ; and Vak. ebractea'ta, Syme (found'near Epsom), 

 with glabrous obtuse glumes and leaves and bracts reduced to a subulate 

 point, are abnormal forms. 



45. C filifor'mis, L. ; slender, leaves very long, margins involute, 

 bracts long, sheaths short, spikelets erect, perigynia narrow-ovoid turgid 

 pubescent equalling the lanceolate acuminate glumes, beak 2-cuspidate. 



Bogs and marshes, local, Sutherland to Devon and Hants ; Ireland; fl. May. 

 — Rootstock creeping, stoloniferous. Stems 2-3 ft., slightly scabrid above, 

 3-gonous, leafy. Leaves numerous, very slender, stiff ; sheaths red -brown, 

 stout, lower 2-3 very long, edges filamentous, without a blade. Male spike- 

 lets 2-3, very slender, l-2h in., brown ; female 1-3, |-1 in., rather lax-fid. : 

 lower bracts filiform, overtopping the stem. Glumes chestnut-brown, mar- 

 gins concolorous ; midrib green, of male fl. narrower and more membranous. 

 Perigynia £ in., plano-convex, green, narrowed into the beak. Nut stipitate. 

 3-quetrous.— Distrib. Europe (Arctic), Siberia, N. America. 



