340 MONOECIA — TRTANDRIA. [Carex. 



40. C' panic^a, L. (Pink-leaved Carex); sheaths elongated 

 shorter than the fiowerstalks, fertile spikes suhcylindrical with 

 distant flowers, bracteas leafy, fruit subglobose somewhat in- 

 flated obtuse glabrous entire at the point. E. Sot. t. 1505. 



Marshy places and bogs, common. Fl. June. 1^. — Stems I — 1| foot 

 high. Leaves rather broad, glaucous, rough at the edges, much resem- 

 bling, as Sir J. E. Smith observes, the foliage of C. recurva ; but the 

 characters of the two are widely different. Calyx-scales dark browir, 

 the keel green. Fruit greenish-brown. 



41. C. phcEostdclu/a, Sm. (short brown-spiked Carex); barren 

 spike solitary, fertile ones 1 — 3 erect lax-flowered distant stalk- 

 ed, the stalks longer than the sheathing subfoliaceous bracteas, 

 fruit smooth obsoletely nerved elliptic-lanceolate with an acu- 

 minate obliquely bifid recurved beak, longer than the ovate 

 scale. (Boott.) Forst. in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2731. — C. salinay 

 Don, Herb. Brit. n. 216, (tiot Sw.) — C. Mielochoferi, Sm. Forst. 

 in E. Bot. t. 2273. — C. Scotica, Spreng. — C.panicea, /3. Wahl, 



Highland mountains. Craigchallaich. Borrer. Cairngorum and Ben- 

 y-mac-dowie. G. Don. Clova. J. D. Hooker. Fl. i\i\y. If. — In de- 

 ference to the opinion of Mr Borrer, I rank this as a species ; but it 

 is probably only a var. of C panicea, with less glaucous (greener) her 

 bage and a bifid beak to the fruit. Tlie above synonyms are referred 

 hither at the suggestion of Dr Boott. 



42. C. depaiiperdta, Gooden. (starved Wood Carex); sheaths 

 much shorter than the flower stalks, fertile spikes erect remote 

 very few-flowered, fruit large nearly globose inflated terminat- 

 ing in a long beaked bifid point. E. Bot. t. 1098. 



Dry woods, rare. Godalmin, Surrey ; Charlton wood, Kent ; and 

 near Forfar. Fl. May, June. 11. — 1 — 1^ ft. high. ,S/>?7^es very distant ; 

 their hw flowers, and large inflated beaked /rM2V, decidedly marking the 

 species. 



c. Fertile spikes stalked, drooping. 



a. Fertile spikes abbreviated. 



43. C. capilldris. L. (dwarf capillary Carex); common sheath 

 half the length of the fiowerstalks, fertile spikes few-fiowered 

 lax drooping, fruit oblongo-obovate acuminate as long as the 

 ovate membranous deciduous calyx. E. Bot. t. 2069. 



Plentiful on some of the Highland uiouutains, especially the Bread- 

 albane range. On Ben-y-Gloe. Fl. June, July. If. — 2 — 6 inches high. 

 Leaves mostly railieal, scarcely half the length of the stem, soft. One 

 single bractea includes with its sheathing base the lower part of all 

 the jieduncles. Sterile spike single, frequently below the fertile ones. 

 Fruit dark brown, shining. 



44. C. Ii?n6sa, L. (Mud Carex); sheaths extremely short 

 scarcely any, fertile spikes oblongo-ovate pendulous, bracteas 

 subsetaceous, calyx acute as long as the fruit, fruit elliptico- 

 rotundate striated shortly mucronated. E. Bot. t. 2043. 



Bogs and marshes. Rare in England ; mostly found in the northern 



