1164 CAREX. [CLASS XXI. ORDER III, 
from his favourite studies, he indulged in a mood of feeling, which 
the poet seems to have interpreted in these lines— 
“ ——— © ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, 
Think not of any severing of our loves! 
Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might; 
I only have relinquished one delight, 
To live beneath your more habitual sway. 
I love the brooks which down their channels fret, 
Even more than when I tripped lightly as they; 
The innocent brightness of a new-born day 
Is lovely yet; 
The clouds that gather round the setting sun 
Do take a sober colouring from an eye 
That hath kept watch o’er man’s mortality; 
Another race hath been, and other palms are won. 
Thanks to the human heart by which we live, 
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears, 
To me the meanest flowers that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.” 
—— | 
Wordsworth. 
Sect. 3. Terminal spikelet with barren and fertile flowers, the rest 
Fertile. Stigmas three. 
24. C. Vah'lii, Schkh. (Fig. 1407.) Close-headed alpine Carex. 
Spike compound; spikelets three or four, roundish oblong, the ter- 
minal one with barren flowers at its base; stigmas three; fruit 
obovate, scabrous above, with minute crystalline prickles, shortly 
beaked, longer than the ovate obtuse scales; stem triangular, rough ; 
root creeping. 
English Botany, Suppl. t. 2666.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. 
i. p. 335.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 333. 
foot tufted, and somewhat creeping. Stem erect, from six to 
twelve inches high, rigid, triangular, and rough on the edges, espe- 
cially above, leafy below. Leaves narrow, linear, tapering to an 
acute point, flattish, the edges rough, sheathing at the base. Spike 
terminal, of three or four roundish or oblong spikelets, the lowest on a 
short footstalk, the rest sessile, the terminal spikelets only with barren 
flowers, which are mostly at the base. Bractea of the lower spikelet 
leafy, rising obove the spike. Scales of the fertile flowers dark 
brown, almost black, broadly ovate, acute, those of the barren flowers 
paler, and more lanceolate. Fruit obovate, longer than the scales, 
green, or somewhat tawny, the beak short, bifid, rough, as well as the 
upper part of the angles, with smal] crystalline prickles. Stigmag 
three. 
Habitat—Alpine rock, Scotland, Head of Loch Callater, in 
Bremar; Glen on the south side of Glen Dole; about six miles from 
Castleton. 
Perennial ; flowering in August and September. 
