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30. C. phcBostdchya. Short brown-spiked Carex. 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. Bot. Suppl. pi. 2731. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 99. 1314. 



31. C.capittdris. 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-cor- 

 nered, 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. Bot. 

 vol. xxix. pi. 2069. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 100. 1315. 



32. C. rariflora. 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 moun- 

 tains, 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 elliptical, compressed, ribbed, smooth-edged, without a 

 beak ; root creeping. Straws about eight inches high, three- 

 cornered, roughish. Perennial : 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, com- 

 pressed, 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. pallescens. Pale Carex. Sheaths scarcely any ; fertile cat- 

 kins 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 ; cat- 



