OLASS XXI. ORDER III. ] CAREX. 1179 
three or four, cylindrical, remote, densely flowered, on long peduncles, 
at length drooping ; scales almost black, oblong; bracteas leafy, the 
lower ones sheathed ; stigmas three; fruit elliptic, obtuse, with a 
short entire beak, smooth or roughish; stem triangular, smooth ; 
leaves linear, rough ; root creeping. 
English Botany, t. 1506.—English Flora, p. 114.—Hooker, British 
Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 342.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 290.—C. Miche- 
liana.—English Botany, t. 2236, (fruit smooth).—C. stictocarpa, 
Smith.—English Botany, t. 2772.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 127.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 292.—C. glauca, Scop. 
fioot creeping. Stem erect, from twelve to eighteen inches high, 
acutely angular, smooth and leafy below, roughish above. Leaves 
linear, a glaucous green, rough on the edgesand keel. Bracteas leafy, 
the lower one long, and sheathed at the base, the upper small, without 
sheaths, all with a dark brown membranous auricle at the base. 
Barren spikelets one, two, and occasionally three, linear, with dark 
brown almost black oblong lanceolate scales, with a slender pale mid- 
rib, fertile three or four, linear, cylindrical, densely flowered, but not 
unfrequently, the lower spikelets are loosely and sometimes distantly 
flowered at the base, and the upper ones are sometimes barren, the 
lower spikelets are on long slender at length drooping peduncles, and 
the upper ones are sessile, or nearly so. Scales dark brown, almost 
black, ovate lanceolate, or acute, with a slender pale mid-rib, shorter 
than the fruit. uit elliptic oblong, obtuse, bluntly angular, a rusty 
green, becoming black, smooth or roughish, with a short entire or 
slightly notched beak. Stigmas three, 
Habitat.— Moist meadows, moors, groves, and alpine rocks. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
This is a generally distributed plant, and variable in its size and 
rigidity from the different situations of its growth; its very glaucous 
leaves, dark obtuse scales, and obtuse short beaked fruit smooth or 
roughish, well distinguish it. 
++ Fertile spikelets short. 
50. C. capillar'is, Linn. (Fig. 1482.) Dwarf capillary Carex. 
Barren spikelet solitary, with lanceolate scales; fertile two or three, 
drooping, of few lax flowers, on slender peduncles; scales ovate, ob- 
tuse, pale, membranous; fruit oblong, triangular, acuminated, and 
both ezds smooth, shining, longer than the scales; stigmas three ; 
bractea leafy, sheathed ; leaves linear, flat ; root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 2069.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 100.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 8340.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 288. 
Root fibrous, tufted.- Stem slender, erect, roundish, striated, 
smooth, leafy below, two to six inches high. Leaves linear, plane, 
searcely half as long as the stem, pliant, spreading, rough only 
towards the apex. Bractea mostly solitary near the top of the stem, 
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