1160 CAREX. [CLASS XXI. ORDER I1!. 
Scales ovate, membranous, of a silvery brown colour, with a faint 
mid-rib terminating below the point. Bracteas short, except the 
lower ones, which are narrow, leafy, and as long or longer than the 
spike. eaves narrow, channeled. /ruit as long as the glume, erect, 
lanceolate, smooth, plano-convex, the beak tapering, attenuated, 
serrated on the margin from below the middle bifid. Stigmas two. 
HTabitat—Near Hereford.—Rev. W. H. Coleman. 
Perennial; flowering in June. 
This species is distinguished from C. remota and C. awillaris, by 
the habit of the plant, and its fruit being more tapering and equalling 
the scales. 
17. C. stellula'ta, Gooden. (Fig. 1400.) Little prickly Carex. 
Spike compound; spikelets about four, remote, roundish, barren at 
the base ; stigmas two; fruit ovate, with a long slender beak, bifid, 
rough on the margins, striated, spreading, longer than the ovate acute 
scales; stem smooth ; root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 806.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 80.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 331.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 284. 
Root tufted, with long tough fibres. Stem erect, from six to twelve 
inches high, slender, triangular, nearly smooth, leafy and scaly at 
the base. eaves narrow, linear, flat, tapering, and rough towards 
the point, sheathed at the base, about as long asthe stem. Spike 
terminal, lax,’of about four roundish spikelets, of crowded florets, the 
lower ones barren. Sracteas membranous, ovate, the lower ones 
sometimes with a slender leafy point. Scales pale, membranous, 
ovate, acute, with a green mid-rib terminating below the point. 
Fruit ovate, brown, smooth, convex at the back, and striated, flat or 
concave in front, the beak long, tapering, with a narrow green mem- 
branous rough margin, the apex scarcely bifid. Stigmas two. 
Habitat.—Marshes and heathy places. 
Perennial; flowering in May and June. 
18. C. lepori'na, Linn. (Fig. 1401.) Hare's-foot Carex. ‘“ Spikelets 
three, rarely four, ovate, contiguous; fruit elliptic, rostrate, plano- 
convex, smooth, nerved, with a scariose bi-dentate finally entire 
orifice, scarcely longer than the ovate obtuse scales, which are 
scariose at the margins.” 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. v.i. p. 332. Schkh.—F.F.F.F. f. 129.— 
C. Lachenaliit.—Schkh. y. f. 79.—C. lagopina, Wahl.—C. approzi- 
mata, Hoppe. Gand. (not allion ).—C. parviflora, Gand. (not Host.) 
“ Root fibrous. Stem four to eight inches high, smooth, rarely 
rough below the spike. eaves a line broad, shorter than the stem. 
Spikelets brown. Bracteas broad, ovate, obtuse, the-lowest aristate, 
rarely foliaceous, and larger than the spikelets. Seeds elliptic, plano- 
convex, pale yellow.”—Boott. 
