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1166 CAREX. [CLASS XXI. ORDER III, 
the barren more lanceolate, all with a greenish mid-rib, terminating 
in a point. Fruit roundish ovate, compressed, with a short slightly 
bifid beak, smooth, pale green, or tawny. Stigmas three. 
Habitat.—Alpine rocks and pastures, in Wales and Scotland. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
Sect. 4. Terminal spikelet barren, solitary, (rarely mare than one), 
the rest fertile. 
* Stigmas two. 
27. C. caespito'sa, Linn. (Fig. 1410.) tufted Bog Carex. Barren 
spike mostly solitary, fertile ones three, sessile, the lower one rarely 
pedunculated; bracteas leafy, without sheath, but auricled at the 
base ; stigmas two; fruit smooth, elliptic, obtuse, with a very short 
entire beak, closely imbricated ; scales ovate, obtuse ; leaves linear, 
erect ; root creeping. 
English Botany, t. 1507.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 117.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p 336.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 291.—C. 
angustifolia—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 127.—C. Goodenovii, Gay.— 
Bab. British Bot. p. 341. 
Root creeping. Stem erect, from six to twelve inches high, 
angular, striated, smooth below, rough above, a pale glaucous green, 
as well as the leaves, which are erect, or somewhat spreading, rather 
rigid, linear, narrow, rough on the angles and keel, sheathed at the 
base, and enveloped in dark reddish brown sheaths. Spike terminal, 
compound, the terminal spikelet barren, narrow, cylindrical, solitary, 
rarely with one or two other small ones, the fertile ones three, rarely 
four, sessile, the lower one sometimes on a short peduncle. DBracteas 
leafy, without sheaths, but with a dark ovate auricular appendage at 
the base, the lower one long, the others shorter. Scales dark brown, 
almost black, the barren ones ovate, obtuse, the fertile ones ovate, 
acute. Jruit smooth, green or brownish, elliptic, obtuse, with a very 
short round entire beak, its angles obtuse, convex at the back, plane 
in front, longer than the scales. Stigmas two, nearly sessile, 
Habitat.— Marshes and wet places; frequent. 
Perennial; flowering in May and June. 
28. C. rig'ida, Gooden. (Fig. 1411.) rigid Carex. Barren spike 
mostly solitary, fertile ones three, sessile, the lower one often pedun- 
culated ; bracteas leafy, without sheath, but auriculated at the base; 
stigmas sessile, two; fruit obovate, attenuated at the base, somewhat 
stalked, the beak a very short entire point; scales ovate, obtuse; 
leaves broadly linear, mostly recurved ; root ereeping. 
English Botany, t.2047.—English Flora, vol. iv. p 116.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 336.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 290. 
This is similar to the last species, from which it differs in being 
more rigid, the stem four to six inches high, curved. The leaves and 
bracteas are broader, not erect, but more or less recurved. Stigmas 
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