1168 CAREX. [CLASS XXI. ORDER 111. 
Habitat.—Table lands in boggy situations in the mountains of 
Clove, Scotland. 
Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 
Dr. Boott doubts this really being the C. aquatilis of Wahlenberg, : 
since that author describes his plant as haying scales much narrower 
than the fruit, which is not the case with ours, and the place of 
growth and size as being so very different, “ in ipsis fluviis et lacubus” . 
—‘“‘scepe altitudinem humanam attengens’—“ ad radicem sapius 
pallicem crassa.” See Hooker, British Flora, but our plant is not . 
found off the naked table land of the mountains, and is not known to 
grow actually in water but boggy situations. | 
31. C. acu'ta, Linn. (Fig. 1413.) Slender spiked Carex. Barren | 
spikelets often more than one, fertile about four, long, cylindrical, 
acuminate, slender, erect in fruit, often with barren flowers at the 
extremity ; bractea long, foliaceous, without sheaths; stigmas two ; . 
fruit smooth, ovate, elliptic, sub-compressed, inflated, acuminated, | 
with short entire point; scales lanceolate, longer than the fruit ; 
stem acutely angular, rough; leaves broadly linear; sheaths not 
fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 580.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 119.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 336. —Lindley, Synopsis, p. 291. 
foot extensively creeping. Stem from two to three feet high, . 
erect, smooth and leafy below, rough above. Leaves broadly linear, 
a bright green, somewhat drooping, rough at the edges and keel, 
sheathed at the base, Spike terminal, compound. ‘Terminal spikelets 
barren one, two, or three, slender, linear, cylindrical, seales dark 
brown, oblong, obtuse, with a green mid-rib terminating below the 
apex, fertile spikelets three or four, the upper sessile, the lower 
mostly pedunculated, long, narrow, cylindrical, sometimes the ter- | 
minal florets are barren, scales lanceolate, longer than the fruit 
Bracteas long, leafy, without sheaths, but with a small auricular 
appendage on each side at the base. Fruit smooth, elliptic, ovate, 
inflated, sub-compressed, obsoletely ribbed, acuminated, with a very 
short entire beak. Stigmas two. 
Habitat.—M oist meadows and pastures; frequent. 
Perennial ; flowering in May. 
82. C. stric'ta, Gooden. (Fig. 1414.) Straight-leaved Carex. Barren 
spikelet mostly solitary, fertile about three, cylindrical, elongated, 
closely imbricated, erect, often acuminated, with barren flowers at the 
extremity, nearly sessile; bracteas short, sub-foliaceous, without 
sheaths, but auriculated at the base ; stigmas two; fruit ovate, with a 
very short point, compressed, smooth, elevated on a short stalk ; 
scales ovate lanceolate, shorter than the fruit; stem acutely angular, 
roughish ; leaves long, straight, narrow, linear, glaucous, sheathed, 
and often fibrous at the base. 
