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suggests, the habitat is a starved soil lengthy, quite halt an inch broad, making 

 in dry woods ; and although the plant great masses in the wet hollows. Such 

 grows two feet in height, it has a places are generally marked with a vivid 

 slender, feeble character, the spikelets green, all growth suggesting the luxuriant 



cell-formation of the water-loving plants. 

 I have seen the seedling growth of 

 Prunella vulgaris spreading like Duck- 

 weed on the firmer yet saturated 

 ground, with the inevitable Soft Rush 

 tufting up beside the black rotting 

 debris of the woods — broken bark and 

 larch cones spotted with fungi, and all 



CARKX a YL VATIC A. 



being very abbreviated and the fruits 

 few. 



Carex sylvatica, on the contrary, has 

 long fruiting spikelets from one to three 

 inclies, cur\-ing downwards on slender 

 stalks. In damp woods it may grow 

 three feet high, making strong tufted 

 growth. The Great Drooping Sedge (C. 

 pendiilit) is a very imposing species that 



sometimes runs up six feet, hanging out condition passing through the chemical 

 long, closely-set spikelets, with the stalks transformations that eventually extin- 

 hidden in the sheaths. The leaves are guish their recognition. 



Maud U. Clarke. 



GREAT DROOPING SEDGE. 



manner of plant structure in fractional 



