CLASS XXI. ORDER 11!.] CAREX. Wa be Ay, 
long, broadly linear, striated, roughish on the keel and margins, 
sheathed, and the base enveloped in lanceolate scales, with membra- 
nous margins. SBracteas long, leafy, with close elongated scales. 
Barren spikelet terminal, linear, with oblong lanceolate scale, pale 
brown, fertile three or four, elongated, narrow, loosely flowered, 
drooping, on long slender peduncles, especially the lower ones. Seales 
lanceolate, membranous, pale, with a broad green rib, terminating in 
a longish tapering rough point. J/ruit green, or pale brown, elliptic, 
triangular, smooth, tapering into a long narrow rough beak, bifid at 
the apex. Stigmas three. 
Habitat—Moist Woods ; frequent. 
Perennial; flowering in May and June. 
Linneus, who describes this as a Lapland plant, says it is carded 
and dressed by the inhabitants and used as wadding to protect them 
from cold. Its long pliant stems and leaves might here also be 
applied to many useful purposes. It is very abundant in moist 
woods, but does not appear to be a plant which cattle are fond of. 
46. C. strigo'sa, Huds. (Fig. 1428.) Loose pendulous Carex. Barren 
spikelet solitary, with oblong lanceolate scales; fertile three or four, 
remote, erect, with peduncles, scarcely as long as the sheaths of the 
leafy bractea, filiform, with lax flowers; stigmas three; fruit ovate 
lanceolate, striated, with a very short scarcely bifid beak; leaves 
broadly linear ; root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 994.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 95 —Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 341.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 287. 
Foot with long fibrous branches. Stem erect, about two feet high, 
triangular, smooth, leafy. Leaves broadly linear, a bright green, 
striated, roughish on the margins and keel, with rather long sheathing 
base. Sracteas long, leafy, with close sheaths and obtuse membra- 
nous auricles on each side at the top Sarren spikelet terminal, long, 
narrow, linear, pale brown, with linear lanceolate scales, fertile nearly 
erect, three or four on peduncles, not longer than the sheaths of the 
bractea, long, linear, loosely flowered, with pale membranous lanceo- 
late scales, with a slender mid-rib, shorter than the fruit. uit pale 
brown or green, ovate lanceolate, striated, somewhat curved towards 
the point, the beak very short, obtuse, scarcely bifid. Stigmas three. 
Habitat —Groves and thickets in several of the Middie and East 
parts of England; Armiston Woods, near Edinburgh. 
_ Perennial; flowering in May and June. 
AT. C. pen'dula, Huds. (Fig. 1429.) Great pendulous Carex. Barren 
spikelet solitary, terminal, with brown linear lanceolate scales ; fertile 
mostly four, rather distant, long, cylindrical, densely flowered, droop- 
ing; scales lanceolate, bristle pointed; stigmas three; fruit ovate, 
acuminate, striated, the beak short, bifid; stem short; leaves broad, 
linear ; root fibrous, tufted. 
