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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 

 compressed, ribbed, permanent husk. Germen superior, round- 

 ish, three-cornered, smooth. Style one, terminal, cylindrical, 

 short ; stigmas three, awl-shaped, long, downy, deciduous. 

 Seed roundish, three-cornered, loosely covered by the enlarged 

 husk. Named from ceiro, to cut. 424. 



* Catkin solitary, simple. 



1 . C. dioica. Creeping dioecious Carex. Spikes simple, dioecious ; 

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



root creeping. Four or five inches high : leaves 'keeled: scales 



of the catkins brown, with a green rib and white edges. Peren- 

 nial : flowers in May and June : grows in boggy places : not un- 

 common. Eng. Bot. vol. viii.pl. 543. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 77. 1285. 



2. C. Davallitina. Prickly Dioecious Car ex. Spikes simple, dioe- 

 cious ; 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. 1286. 



3. C. pulicdris. Flea Car ex. Spike simple ; flowers of the upper 

 half barren, of the lower fertile; fruit deflected, polished, taper- 

 ing 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. rupestris. 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 Au- 

 gust : discovered in 1836, by Mr. Dickie, near Loch Callader, 

 Aberdeenshire. Sutherland. Brit. Fl. 4th ed. p. 331. 1288. 



5. C. pauciflora. Feio-jloivered 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. Goat- 

 fell ; Ben Nevis ; Ben Lomond ; 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 flowers 

 and fertile jiowers. 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 in 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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