CLASS XXI. ORDER UT, | CAREX. 1173 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 338.—S. speriostachya, 
Sw.—English Botany, t. 2770.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 98.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 288.-—C. Horuschuchina, Hoppe-—C. Hosteana, 
De Cand. 
Root tufted, somewhat creeping. Stem erect, slender, about a foot 
high, leafy below, naked above, angular, and smooth or roughish up- 
wards. eaves linear, acuminate, erect, short, striated, rough on the 
edges and keel, sheathed, and with an oblong membranous stipule. 
Bracteas leafy, with close sheaths, those of the upper spikelets nearly 
as long as the peduncle, of the lower about half as long. Barren 
spikelet terminal, cylindrical, slender, its scales brown, membranous, 
ovate, obtuse. Vertile spikelets ovate, obtuse, erect, two or three, 
when there are three two are near together towards the top of the 
stem, the lower one is always distant, and on a slender peduncle. 
Fruit rather lax, spreading, greenish brown, ovate, somewhat inflated, 
striated, smooth, acuminated into a rather long straight beak, bifid at 
the apex, and more or less rough on the margins, longer than the ovate 
acute brown scale, with a pale membranous margin. Stigmas three. 
Habitat Boggy meadows; not unfrequent. &. Mugdoch Castle, 
and several other parts of Scotland. 
Perennial; flowering in June. 
40. C. puncta'ta, Gand. (Fig. 1422.) Dotted fruited Carex. Barren 
spikelets one, rarely two, with obtuse ferruginous scales ; fertile three 
or four, erect, remote, densely flowered, pedunculated, the lower one 
longer than the sheath of the leafy bractea; stigmas three; fruit 
ovate, tumid, smooth, pellucidly punctate, diverging, of a pale green, 
obsoletely ribbed, except at the margins, the beak short, acuminate, 
bifid, smooth, larger than the ovate acute mucronate scale; stem 
smooth; leaves narrow, linear, plane, sheathed, with an oblong 
ligula; root creeping. 
Hooker, British Flora, ed 4. vol i. p. 338.—C. Helvetica, Schleich. 
Root creeping, and with tough woody fibres. Stem erect, from 
twelve to eighteen inches high, smooth, angular, striated, leafy be- 
low. eaves narrow, linear, flat, shorter than the stem, with a 
striated sheath, and an opposite oblong obtuse membranous ligule. 
Bracteas leafy, with striated sheaths, auricled at the top. Barren 
spikelet single, rarely two, linear, cylindrical, with brown obtuse 
seales, fertile three, rarely four, ovato-cylindrical, erect, pedunculated, 
the upper ones with short stalks, and approximate, the lower longer, 
and more distant, the scales ovate, acuminate, with a short point, 
brown, membranous, with a pale narrow margin and green mid rib, 
shorter than the fruit, the peduncles roughish. uit ovate, tumid, 
convex on both sides, green, smooth, obscurely ribbed, except on the 
margins, green, shining, and beautifully punctated under a mag- 
nifying power, the beak linear, about one-third the length of the 
fruit, bifid. Stigmas three. 
