CLASS XX1. ORDER IIT. | CAREX. 1169 
English Botany, t. 914.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 118.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed, 4. vol. i. p. 837.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 291.—C. 
cespitosa, Linn. 
Root creeping. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, acutely 
triangular, roughish at the top, smooth and leafy below. Leaves 
erect, narrow, linear, of a somewhat glaucous green, rough on the 
angles and keel, sheathed and fibrous at the base. Spike terminal, 
compound, the top one sometimes two, narrow, linear, cylindrical, 
barren, the scales oblong, ovate, obtuse, with a pale mid-rib, fertile 
spikelets three or four, sessile, or elevated on a short peduncle, cylin- 
drical, crowded, imbricated, sometimes tapering towards the top with 
barren florets, scales lanceolate, almost black, the mid-rib green, 
shorter than the fruit. 2 rwit elevated on a short footstalk, ovate, 
compressed, smooth, green, with a very short entire beak. Stigmas 
two. racteas short, somewhat leafy, without sheaths, but with an 
auricular appendage on each side at the base. 
Habitat.— Marshes ; frequent. 
Perennial; flowering in May. 
33. C. sawat'ilis, Linn. (Fig. 1415.) Sussex Carex. Barren spike- 
let solitary, linear; fertile two, ovate, obtuse, the lower ones pedun- 
culated; bracteas leafy, auriculated at the base; stigmas two; fruit 
spreading, elliptical, inflated, with a short bifid beak, longer than the 
ovate scales; stem acutely angular, rough; leaves linear, acuminate; 
root creeping. 
C. pulla.—Lindley, Synopsis.—English Botany, t 2045.—English 
Flora, vol. iv. p. 104 —Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 887. 
foot somewhat creeping, with long stout fibrous roots. Stem 
erect, about eight inches high, obtusely angular, rough above, smooth 
and leafy below. Leaves linear, striated, rough at the margins and 
keel, remarkably acuminated at the point, sheathed at the base. 
Bracteas without sheaths, but with an auricular appendage at the 
base on each side, the lower one leafy, the upper small, setaceous. 
Spike terminal, compound, the terminal spikelet cylindrical, linear, 
barren, with dark brown ovate acute scales, fertile spikelets two, 
ovate, obtuse, the upper sessile, the lower on a slender peduncle, 
somewhat drooping. Scales ovate, somewhat acute, brown, with a 
green mid-rib, shorter than the elliptical pale brown fruit, which is 
inflated, smooth, obsoletely ribbed, the beak short, bifid. Stigmas 
two. 
Habitat.—Near springs on the high mountains of Scotland ; rare. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
ek Stigmas three. ° 
a. Fruit smooth. 
1. Fertile spikelets nearly sessile. 
34. C. flava, Linn. (Fig. 1416.) Yellow Carex. Barren spikelet 
