1172 CAREX. [CLASS XXI. ORDER IIT. 
spikelet terminal, solitary, linear, cylindrical, with brown obtuse 
scales, the mid-rib and margin pale, fertile spikelets two or three, 
distant, cylindrical, linear, the upper ones with the florets loose, the 
lower one with the florets especially towards the base distant, the 
seales dark brown, ovate lanceolate, with a green mid-rib Fruit 
sub-globose, ovate, somewhat inflated, quite smooth, ribbed, longer 
than the scales, the beak very short, bifid, a greenish brown colour. 
Stigmas three. 
Habitat.—Marshy places ; common. 
Perennial; flowering in May and June. 
38. C. speirosta'chya, Sm. (Fig. 1420.) Short brown spiked Carex. 
Barren spikelet solitary; fertile spikelets one to three, remote, erect, 
with lax flowers, on slender peduncles, longer than the sheaths of the 
leafy bracteas; fruit smooth, obsoletely ribbed, elliptic lanceolate, 
with an acuminate obliquely bifid recurved beak, longer than the 
ovate scales; leaves broadly linear, smooth, except the margins near 
the point ; stem smooth, striated; root creeping. 
English Botany, t. 2731.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 98.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 340.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 288 —C. 
sabina, Don. Herb. Brit. n. 216.—C. Scotica, Spreng.—C. vaginata, 
Tausch. Bot. zig. 1821. 
Root creeping. Stem erect, slender, triangular, striated, quite 
smooth, from twelve to eighteen inches high, leafy below. Leaves 
somewhat glaucous green, broadly linear, acuminate, flat, smooth, 
except on the margin towards the point. racteas short, leafy, erect, 
sheathed. Parren spikelets terminal, solitary, linear, with oblong 
brown scales, with a green mid-rib and narrow pale margin, fertile 
spikelets one to three, distant, on slender erect peduncles, the upper 
one as long, the lower longer than the sheath of the bracteas, flowers 
lax, not distant, as in the last species, the scales ovate, acute. Fruit 
smooth, pale green, or brownish upwards, elliptic lanceolate, with an 
acuminated beak, obliquely bifid, and somewhat recurved, longer 
than the scales, triangular, ribbed. Stigmas three. 
Habitat —High Mountains of Scotland. Craigchallaich.—Mr. 
Borrer. Cairngorum and Ben-y-mac-dowie.—Mr. G. Don. Clove.— 
Mr. T D. Hooker. 
Perennial; flowering in July. 
- 89. OC. ful'va, Gooden. (Fig. 1421.) Tawny Carevx. Barren spikelet 
terminal, solitary ; fertile erect, ovate, densely flowered, pedunculated, 
remote; bracteas sheathed ; stigmas three; fruit ovate, sub-inflated, 
smooth ribbed, acuminated into a straight beak, bifid at the apex, 
rough on the margins; scales ovate, acute ; stem rough ; root tufted. 
English Botany, t. 1295.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 107—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 338.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 289. 
B. speriostachya. Yertile spikelets mostly three; fruit with a 
membranous orifice, nearly smooth; stem nearly smooth. 
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