1162 CAREX. FeLASS XXI. ORDER TIT. 
ovate, with a green mid-rib terminating below the point, and shorter 
than the fruit, smooth. /ruit ovate, acuminate, somewhat com- 
pressed, striated with a bifid apex, the margins rough, with serrated 
teeth, pale green. Stigmas two. 
Habitat—W oods and shady places. 
Perennial; flowering in June. 
21. C. awilla'ris, Gooden. (Fig. 1404.) awillary clustered Carex. 
Spike compound; spikelets alternate, the lower ones remote, often 
three or four together in the axis of long leafy bractea, the upper 
solitary, with short bractea; stigmas two; fruit ovate, plano-com- 
pressed, acuminated into a rough bifid beak, longer than the rough 
ribbed scales ; stem erect ; root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 993.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 84.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 333.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 285. 
Root tufted, fibrous. Stem erect, about two feet higb, rather stout, 
angular, striated, rough, naked above, leafy below, leaves linear, 
long, striated, with a slender tapering point, rough on the margins, 
sheathed at the base. Spike terminal, compound. Spikelets small, 
ovate, the lower ones three or four, crowded together in the axis of the 
long leafy bractea, the upper ones solitary, with a short bristle shaped 
bractea. Scales ovate lanceolate, pale, membranous, with two parallel 
green rough mid-ribs, terminating in the point, shorter than the fruit. 
Fruit ovaie, green, plano-compressed, acuminated into a bifid beak, 
the margin rough, with five serrated teeth. Stigmas two. 
Habitat.—Marshes; rare. Putney. near London; Larsham, 
Norfolk; Over, Cheshire; Killin, and near Crichton Castle, Edin- 
burgh, Scotland. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
This is nearly allied to the last species, but it is a stouter, rougher 
plant, rarely without there being several spikelets crowded together 
in the axis of the lower bractea, and the scales are more rigid, from 
the two rough ribs at the back terminating in a point. 
22. C. cur'ta, Gooden. (Fig. 1405.) White Carex. Spike com- 
pound ; spikelets about six, rather distant, sub-ovate; bractea very 
minute, except the lower one; stigmas two; fruit rather longer than 
the scale, ovate, acute, plane above, convex at the back, slightly 
striated ; beak short, entire, the margins rough ; stem smooth below, 
rough above. 
English Botany, t. 1386.—English Flora, vol. iv. p 81.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 332.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 285.— 
C. canescens, Light.—C. brizoides, Huds. 
Root slightly creeping. Stem erect, about a foot high, angular, 
leafy and smooth below, naked and roughish above, striated. Leaves 
narrow, erect, linear, with a long tapering point, striated, sheathing at 
the base, rough on the edges and keel. Spike terminal, compound, of 
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