CLASS XXI. ORDER 11. ] CAREX. 1161 
Habitat—Rocks on the west side of Loch-na-gar, Scotland, 
August, 1836.—Mr. Dickie. 
Perennial ; flowering in July. 
Native specimens of this plant we have not seen. It is nearly 
related to the following, from which it is not considered distinct by 
some of the Continental Botanists. The above description we have 
taken from Hooker. 
19, C. ova'lis, Gooden. (Fig. 1402.) Oval-spiked Carex. Spike 
compound ; spikelets about six, alternate, ovate, approximate, barren 
at the base; stigmas two; fruit ovate, plano-convex, acuminated into 
a bifid beak, striated with a roughish membranous margin, erect, 
longer than the lanceolate scales ; stem smooth; root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 306.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 82.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 332.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 286. 
toot fibrous, tufted, somewhat creeping. Stem erect, from one to 
two feet high, angular, smooth below, scarcely rough above, leafy 
below. eaves linear, tapering, smooth, striated, shorter than the 
stem, sheathing at the base, and with a short membranous ligule. 
Spike terminal, oblong, of about six, ovate, alternate, smooth, 
shining, pale brown. Spikelets a little separate from each other. 
Bracteas ovate lanceolate, membranous, the lower ones rarely leafy, 
or longer than the spikelets. Scales pale brown, membranous, with 
a green mid-rib, lanceolate, rather shorter than the fruit, smooth. 
Fruit ovate, with an acuminated_beak, more or less numerously 
striated, convex at the back, flat or concave in front, the margins 
with a thin membranous rather broad margin, smooth or roughish 
towards the bifid beak. Stigmas two. | 
Habitat—Bogs and marshy places. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
20. C. remo'ta, Linn. (Fig. 1403.) Distant spiked Carex. Spike 
compound ; spikelets alternate, solitary, remote, barren at the base, 
small; stigmas two; fruit ovate, plano-compressed, acuminated into 
a rough bifid beak, longer than the ovate acute scales; bracteas very 
long, narrow, leafy ; stem slender, smooth, not fibrous, tufted. 
English Botany, t. 832.—-English Flora, vol. iv. p. 84.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 3382.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 285.—C. 
tenella, Schkh.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 83. 
Root tufted, with numerous fibrous branches, whole plant pale 
green. Stem angular, slender, roughish above, leafy, from one to 
two feet high, often drooping. Leaves narrow, linear, rough on the 
margins and keel, sheathing at the base. Spike terminal, compound, 
of alternate sessile spikelets, small, pale green, the lower florets 
barren, the lower spikelets distant in the axis, of long leafy bracteas, 
the upper ones nearer, with short scaly bracteas. Scales pale green, 
