Carex.] MONOECIA — TRIANDRIA. 331 



at the margin upwards, leaves and stem smoothisli, root creep- 

 ing. E.Bot.t.54S. 



Spon^ry bogs. Fl. Maj', June. If. — A span high. Stigmas 2. 



2. C. DavalUdna, Sm. {prxckhj separate- headed Carex); spike 

 simple dioecious, fruit ovate much acuminated recurvato-deflexed 

 rougli at the margin upwards, leaves and stem rough, root 

 tufted. E. Bot. t. 2123. 



Lansdowii, near Bath. On the slope of a hill on which there is a 

 clump of firs. Fl. June. 1+. — A span to a foot high. 



W Androgynous. 



3. C piilicdris, L. (/lea Carex); spike simple, upper half with 

 barren flowers, fruit Jax oblongo -lanceolate acuminate reflexed, 

 stigmas 2, £. Bot. t. 1051. 



Bogs, frequent. Fl. May, June. If. — A span high. Stems smooth. 

 Leaves setaceous or filiform. Fruit dark brown, shining, smooth. 



** Spike simple. Stigmas 3. 



4. C. rupestris, All. (Rock Carex); spike linear with a few 

 fertile lax flowers at the base, fruit obovate triquetrous ros- 

 trate appressed with an entire orifice scarcely longer than the 



obtuse or cuspidate scale. Schkh, Car. n. n. n. n.f. 200 C. 



petrcea, Wahl. — Schkh. k. k. k. f. 139. — C. attenuata, Br. in 

 Frankl. App. p. 753. 



Discovered in 1836, on shelves of rocks extending from the small 

 round lake at the top of Glen Callader, eastward to the " breakneck 

 fall." 3Ir Dickie and Mr Templeton. Fl. Aug. If. — Hoot creeping. 

 Stem 3 — 8 inches high, rough upwards. Leaves flat, ending in a long 

 attenuate, tortuous, rough, triangular point. Barren flowers most nume- 

 rous :^?-^2/e 3 — 6, lax; lower scales sometimes acute or cuspidate. (Boott.) 



5. C. paiicijiora, Lightf. (few-jlowered Carex); spike simple 

 of few flowers the uppermost barren, fruit lax lanceolato-subu- 

 late patenti-reflexed, stigmas 3. £". Bot. t. 2041 — C. leucoglo- 

 chin, Ehrh. 



Not unfrequent on the Highland mountains, in moory places. Crag 



Lake, Northumb. Mr Winch. Fl. June. 1^ Fruit pale yellowish, 



striated. 



*** Spike compound, androgynous. Styles 2. 

 •|- Spikelels capitate. 



6. C. incHrva, Liglitf. (curved Carex) ; spikelets sterile at 

 their extremity collected into a roundish head, bracteas mem- 

 branaceous sliorter than the spikelets, fruit broadly ovate acu- 

 minated nearly entire at the point, stem obtusely angular, leaves 

 channelled. E. Bot. t 927. — C.juncifolia, All. 



Sandy sea-shores in the N. of Scotland. Fl. June. If. — Root much 

 creeping. Stems 2 — 4 inches high, curved. Head o^ flowers large. 



ff Spikelets alternate, sterile at their base. 



7. C. stelluldta, Gooden. (little prickly Carex); spikelets few 



