CLASS XXI. ORDER 111, | CAREX. 1153 
isk Stigmas two, spike with the upper florets barren. 
3. C. pulica'ris, Linn. (Vig. 1888.) Flea Carex. Spike terminal, 
simple, the upper half barren flowers only; stigmas two; fruit lax, 
oblong, tapering at each end, without ribs, becoming reflexed; scales 
deciduous; leaves setaceous. 
English Botany, t. 1051.—Knglish Flora, vol. iv. p. 78.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 331.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 284. 
Root tufted, of numerous slender branched fibres, the whole plant 
slender, smooth. Stem erect, from six to twelve inches high, angular, 
striated, leafy below. Leaves long, bristle-shaped, keeled and 
striated, sheathed at the base, and with a membranous auricle. 
Spike terminal, simple, the barren flowers at the top with brown 
lanceolate scales, and a green mid-rib, the fertile flowers below 
loosely imbricated, their scales shorter, obtusely pointed, and soon 
falling away from the fruit, which is ovate lanceolate, tapering at 
each end, smooth, and without ribs, becoming reflexed. Stigmas two. 
Habitat Bogs ; frequent. 
Perennial; flowering in May and June. 
kick Stigmas three, spike with the upper florets barren. 
4, C. rupes'tris, Allion. (Fig. 1389.) Rock Carex. “Spike linear, 
with a few fertile lax flowers at the base ; fruit obovate, triquetrous, 
rostrate, appressed, with an entire orifice, scarcely longer than the 
obtuse or cuspidate scale.”— Hooker. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 331.—Schkh. Car. n.n.n.n. 
f. 200.—C. petrea, Wahl.—Schkh. Car. kkk. f 189.—C. attenuata, 
Be. in Frankl. App. p. 753. 
“ Root creeping. Stem three to eight inches high, rough upwards. 
Leaves flat, ending in a long attenuated, tortuous, rough, triangular 
point. Barren flowers most numerous, fertile, three to six, lax, lower 
scales sometimes acute or cuspidate.” 
Aabitat.— Discovered in 1836 on shelving rocks, extending from 
the small round lake at the top of Glen Callader, eastward to the 
breakneck fall.’—JZr. Dickie and Mr. Templeton. Inchnadamff, 
Sutherland.— Mr. C. Babington. 
Perennial; flowering in August. 
We have not seen native specimens of this plant, and have made 
the drawing from a Swiss one. It is found on the Alps of Switzer- 
land, and in the Tyrole, but is not very common. 
5. C. pauci'flora, Lightf. (Fig. 1390.) Few-flowered Carex. Spike 
terminal, simple, of about four flowers, the upper one barren ; stigmas 
three ; fruit lanceolate, subulate, reflexed, its scales deciduous; leaves 
setaceous. 
English Botany, t. 2041.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 79—Hooker, 
Peis Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 331,—Lindley, ee p- 284.--C. 
patula, Hudson.— C. leucogloshin, Ehrh. 
