1170 CAREX. [CLASS XXI, ORDER III. 
solitary, terminal ; fertile two or three roundish ovate, rather distant 
the upper sessile, the lower one mostly pedunculated ; bracteas long, 
leafy, with short sheaths, about as long as the peduncles; stigmas 
three ; fruit ovate, inflated, ribbed, spreading, with a long decurved 
bifid beak, rough on the margins, much longer than the broadly 
ovate acute scales ; leaves broadly linear, acuminate; root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 1294.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 106.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 337.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 289. 
B. Ederi. Fruit with a straight beak. 
C. Gderi—English Botany, t. 1773.--English Flora, vol. iv. p. 
105.—Hooker, British Flora, ed, 4. vol. i. p. 338.—Lindley, Synopsis, 
p- 289. 
toot of long tufted branched fibres. Stem erect, six to eight inches 
high, angular, smooth, naked above, leafy below. Leaves broadly, 
linear, with an acuminated point as long as the stem, striated, flat, 
rough on the margin and keel, sheathed at the base. Bracteas long, 
leafy, with short sheaths, spreading. Spike terminal, compound. 
Barren spikelet linear, stalked, terminal, with narrow lanceolate 
brown scales, fertile spikelets three, sometimes four, the upper sessile, 
and near to each other, the lower one more distant, and elevated on a 
short peduncle, not longer than the sheath of the bracteas. Fruit 
smooth, spreading, broadly ovate, inflated, with a long acuminated 
beak, bifid at the point, distinctly ribbed, and somewhat rough on the 
edges, the beak is more or less recurved, and more than half as long 
as the fruit. Stigmas three. Scales broadly ovate, acute, with a 
green rib shorter than the fruit. 
Habitat.—Wet boggy meadows; frequent. 
Perennial; flowering in May and June. 
35. C. exten'sa, Gooden. (Fig. 1417.) long bracteated Carex. Barren 
spikelet solitary, terminal ; fertile two or three, nearly sessile, oblong, 
ovate, densely flowered, the lower one rather distant, shortly pedun- 
culated; bracteas very long, leafy, with very short scarcely any 
sheaths; fruit ovate, striated, with a short smooth bifid beak; scales 
ovate, mucronate; leaves very narrow, channeled; stem smooth ; 
root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 833.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 108.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i p. 338.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 289. 
Root tufted, with long branched fibres. Stem erect, about a foot 
high, slender, quite smooth, obtusely angular, naked above, leafy 
below. Leaves mostly as long as the stem, narrow, channeled from 
the incurved margins, rough on the margins towards the point, re. 
curved, sheathed below. Spike terminal, compound. Barren spikelet 
terminal, mostly solitary, linear, cylindrical, with oblong obtuse 
brown scales, with a green mid-rib, fertile two or three, the upper 
sessile, or nearly so, the lower on ashort peduncle, oblong, ovate, 
densely flowered, the scales brown, ovate, with a short bristle point, 
