1154 CAREX. [CLASS XXI. ORDER III, 
Root long creeping underground stems, and slender branched 
fibres, the whole plant smooth Stems ascending from three to six 
inches high, slender, angular, furrowed. Leaves few, narrow, linear, 
bristle-shaped, keeled, and channeled, sheathing at the base. Spike 
of few flowers, mostly four, fertile, and a terminal solitary one. 
Scales lanceolate, pale brown or yellowish, soon falling away from 
the fruit, which is lanceolate, awl-shaped, smooth, without ribs, longer 
than the scales, becoming reflexed. Stigmas three. 
Habitat.—Moory places; not unfrequent in the Highland Moun- 
tains of Scotland ; Crag Lake, Northumberland. 
Perennial; flowering in June. 
Sect. 2. Spike compound. Spikelets with barren and fertile flowers, 
in a continuous or interrupted spike. 
* Stigmas two, spikelets with the upper florets barren. 
a. Root creeping. 
6. C. incur'va, Light. (Fig. 1391.) Curved Carex. Spikelets barren 
at their extremity, collected into a roundish head; stigmas two; 
bracteas membranous, shorter than the head; fruit broadly ovate, 
acuminated, the beak smooth, nearly entire at the point ; stem ob- 
tusely angular, curved, smooth; leaves channeled ; root creeping. 
English Botany, t. 927—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 83.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 331.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 285. 
Root with long creeping underground stems and numerous long 
branched fibres. Stem smooth, angular, curved, from two to four 
inches long, striated, leafy at the base. Leaves about as long as the 
stem, linear, acute, smooth, a somewhat glaucous green, channeled, 
striated, dilated, and sheathing at the base. Spike terminal, ovate, 
densely crowded, brown. Spikelets several having the upper florets 
barren, the lower fertile, scale palish brown, the barren ones ovate 
lanceolate, the fertile ones ovate, acute. J’ruit smooth, broadly ovate, 
acuminated, inflated, the beak nearly entire at the point. Stigmas 
two, long. Bracteas short, membranous, not so long as the spikelets. 
Habitat.—Sandy sea shores; North of Scotland. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
7. C. divi'sa, Huds. (Fig. 1392.) Bracteated Marsh Carex. Spike- 
lets barren at the extremity, collected into an oblong head; stigmas 
two ; lower bractea leafy, erect ; fruit ovate, striated more nume- 
rously on the convex back than the nearly flat front, its beak acute, 
bifid, rough on the margins ; scales as long as the fruit, the mid-rib 
terminating in a bristle point ; root creeping. 
English Botany, t. 1096.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 87—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 333.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 286. 
Root with stout widely creeping underground stems and long 
branched fibres. Stem erect, about a foot high, somewhat slender, 
rough above, angular, leafy, scaly at the base. Leaves narrow, erect, 
