OLASS XXI. ORDER I11.] CAREX. Lise 
margin, the mid-rib green, roughish. Jruit sub-ovate, broad and 
obtuse at the base, with many ribs on both sides, smooth, the back 
conyex, the front plane, or somewhat concave, the margin sub-mem- 
branous, finely serrated, the beak deeply bifid. Stigmas two, sessile. 
Habitat.—W et pastures and spongy bogs. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
1l. C. teretius'cula, Gooden. (Fig. 13896) Lesser panicled Caren. 
Spike compound, oblong; spikelets ovate, crowded or interrupted ; 
stigmas two; fruit sub-ovate, convex, and marked with three or four 
central ribs at the back, the beak bifid, acuminate, with narrow 
toothed membranous margins; scales ovate, acute, as long as the 
fruit; bracteas membranous, ovate; stem triangular, rough above; 
root somewhat creeping. 
English Botany, t. 1065.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 91.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 334.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 286. 
Root slightly creeping, with long branched fibres. Stem erect, one 
to two feet high, slender, triangular, the edges rough, and the in- 
terstices striated, convex, leafy. Leaves linear, narrow, as long or 
longer than the stem, dark groen, striated, the margins and keel 
rough. Spike terminal, compound, oblong, continuous or inter- 
rupted, one to two inches long. Spikelets ovate, the terminal florets 
barren. Scales ovate, acute, with a green mid-rib. Syracteas mem- 
branous, the lower ones are sometimes leafy, but short. Fruit brown, 
ovate, convex at the back, tumid, and marked with three or four ribs 
in the centre, tapering upwards into a narrow beak, rough on the 
margin, with a narrow membranous edge, the apex bifid. Stigmas 
two. 
Habitat Boggy places; but not very common, 
Perennial; flowering in May and June. 
This is a much smaller plant than the last species, and grows less 
tufted; its leaves are narrow, and as long, or nearly so, as the stem, 
and of a more glaucous hue. 
12. C. vulpi'na, Linn. (Fig. 1397.) Great Carex. Spike compound, 
ovate oblong, dense, or interrupted; spikelets with the upper florets 
barren; stigmas two; fruit ovate-acuminate, plano-convex; beak 
bifid, the margins rough, acute, five to seven ribbed, spreading ; 
scales bristle pointed, shorter than the fruit; stem acutely triangular, 
rough ; root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 307.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 90.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 384.—Lindley, Synopsis p. 286. 
Foot with long branched fibres, tufted. Stem erect, from two to 
three feet high, leafy below, naked above, acutely triangular, the 
edges rough and sharp, the interstices concave, striated, smooth. 
Leaves a dark glaucous green, sheathed at the base, and auricled, with 
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