OLASS XXL. ORDER II1.] CAREX. VT74 
the apex of the green mid-rib. Bracteas with short scarcely any 
sheaths, long, leafy, becoming deflexed, the lower one almost as long 
as the stem, narrow, channeled. J’ruit ovate, green, striated, with a 
short beak, bifid, quite smooth. Stigmas three. 
Habitat.—Marshes near the sea; rare. On the East and South 
Coasts of England; near Liverpool and Menai; Fifeshire, Scotland ; 
and several parts of Ireland. 
Perennial; flowering in June. 
This is a very distinct species, readily known by its nearly sessile 
spikelets in the axis of the very long leafy at length deflexed bracteas, 
its quite smooth stem, and long narrow convolute leaves, the smooth 
short beaked striated fruit finely punctated, and obtuse mucronate 
scales. 
2. Fertile spikelets stalked, erect. 
36. C. palles'cens, Linn. (Fig. 1418.) Pale Carex. Barren spikelet 
terminal, solitary; fertile scarcely drooping, approximate, oblong- 
ovate, densely flowered; bracteas leafy, sheathed; stigmas three; 
fruit elliptic, oblong, obtuse, tumid, striated, smooth, scarcely beaked ; 
leaves slightly downy, sheathed ; root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 2185.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 105.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4 vol. i. p. 338.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 289. 
Root tufted, fibrous. Stem erect, about a foot high, slender, 
angular, rough, naked above, leafy below. Leaves linear, flat, 
striated, rough on the margins and keel, more or less downy, espe- 
cially the sheaths. Bractea leafy, erect, with very short sheaths. 
Barren spikelets terminal, linear, cylindrical, with “pale brown lanceo- 
late scales, fertile spikelets elevated on slender peduncles, about three, 
the lower one remote from the others, and with a rather longer pedun- 
cle, and somewhat drooping, oblong, ovate, obtuse, densely crowded. 
Fruit green, smooth, elliptic, oblong, obtuse, slightly striated, without 
or with a very short beak, longer than the oblong acute scales, brown, 
with a green mid-rib, terminating in the point. Stigmas three. 
Flabitat.—Marshy places; frequent. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
37. C. pani'cea, Linn. (Fig. 1419.) Pink-leaved Carex. Barren 
spikelet solitary; fertile spikelets mostly two, remote, erect, with 
distant flowers, especially the lower one; bracteas leafy, sheathed ; 
stigmas three; fruit sub-globoso-ovate, smooth, with a short beak, 
entire; leaves linear ; stem smooth; root creeping. 
English Botany, t. 1505.—English Flora, vol. iv. p 114.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 340.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 290. 
_ Root creeping. Stem erect, from twelve to eighteen inches high, 
smooth, slender, angular, leafy below. eaves linear, a glaucous 
green, flat, sheathed, smooth, except on the margins and keel towards 
the point. Bracteas leafy, erect, the sheaths long, pale. Darren 
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