OLASS XXI. ORDER I1.] CAREX. 1163 
about six ovate tumid neat looking spikelets, the lower ones rather 
distant, of a pale silvery grey hue. Bracteas small, except the lower 
one, which is sometimes lanceolate. Scales ovate, acute, pale, thin, 
membranous, rather shorter than the fruit, with a slender mid-rib. 
Fruit ovate, acute, somewhat tumid, smooth, with a short entire beak, 
the angles obtuse, rather rough, all imbricated one over the other in 
a very regular manner. Stigmas two. 
Habitat —Bogs in several parts of England; not common. 
Perennial; flowering in May and June. 
The pale neat ovate imbricated spikelets tumid, with small bracteas, 
and the ovate almost elliptical entire pointed fruit, readily distinguish 
this species. 
23. C. elonga'ta, Linn. (Fig. 1406.) elongated Carex. Spike com- 
pound ; spikelets oblong, rather distant, numerous ; bracteas minute ; 
stigmas two; fruit patent, lanceolate, compressed, convex at the back, 
numerously striated; beak attenuated, scarcely bifid, the margins 
rough, somewhat recurved, longer than the ovate acute scales; stem 
erect, angular, rough, shorter than the leaves. 
English Botany, t. 1920.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 82.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol i. p. 332.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 285. 
Root tufted, with long fibres. Stem erect, from twelve to eighteen 
inches high, angular, striated, rough, especially above, leafy below, 
naked above. Leaves linear, striated, roughish on the margin and 
keel, sheathed at the base, as long or longer than the stem. Spike 
terminal, compound. Spikelets oblong, numerous, brownish green, 
rather distant. Bracteas small, ovate, membranous, bristle pointed. 
Scales membranous, ovate, acute, with a green mid-rib, terminating 
below the point. Fruit somewhat spreading, lanceolate, brownish 
green, numerously striated, the beak somewhat recurved, the apex 
slightly bifid, and the margin rough, almost as long again as the 
scales. Stigmas two. 
Habitat.—Marshes, rare. Aldwark, near Sheffield, Yorkshire ; 
Pit side at Over, Cheshire; Shropshire. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
This rare species of Carex was discovered as a native plant by Mr. 
Jonathan Salt, a Sheffield Botanist, who, from the midst of the busy 
scenes of the merchant’s counting-house, found time to pursue in the 
midst of the surrounding fields and woods and moors his favourite 
recreation; and few persons have left behind them a more valuable 
token of perseverance and industry, united with an ardent zeal and 
accuracy of observation than he has done in the excellent collection 
of native plants which now are deposited in the Museum of the 
Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society His early morning 
hours and evening's leisure, apart from business, were spent in in- 
vestigating the works of nature, and when by necessity separated 
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