“OLASS XXI, ORDER III.] CAREX. 1183 
acute, mucronate ; stem weak, angular, rough ; leaves linear, rough ; 
root fibrous. 
English Botany, t. 885.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 112.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 342.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 290. 
Root fibrous, tufted Stem slender, ascending, triangular, striated, 
rough above, leafy below, from six to twelve inches high. Leaves 
narrow, linear, striated, rough on the margins and keel, shorter than 
the stem, sheathed at the base, and enveloped in purple scales, be2 
coming fibrous. Bracteas short, leafy, without sheaths. Barren 
spikelet terminal, solitary, linear, smatl, with lanceolate acute scales, 
brown, membranous, with a pale margin and mid-rib, fertile spikelets 
three or four, sessile, roundish, mostly crowded together, except the 
lower one, scales ovate, acute, brown, with a rough green mid.rib, 
terminating in a bristly point, about as long as the fruit. ruit sub- 
globose, acutely pointed, somewhat triangular, green, clothed with 
short pubescence, the beak short, obliquely pointed. Stigmas three. 
Habitat—Moory ground; frequent. 
Perennial; flowering in June. 
2. Fertile spikelets stalked. 
57. C. tomento'sa, Linn. (Fig. 1438.) Large downy fruited Carex. 
Barren spikelet solitary, with oblong acute scales; fertile one or two, 
cylindrical, obtuse, erect, with ovate acute scales; bracteas leafy, 
erect, with a short sheath; stigmas three; fruit globose, with a short 
beak, scarcely bifid, densely downy; stem erect, slender, rough ; 
leaves linear, flat, somewhat hairy ; root creeping. 
English Botany, t. 2046.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 113.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4 vol. i. p. 343.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 290. 
foot creeping, and with long fibrous radicles. Stem erect, slender, 
acutely angular, roughish above, leafy below, about a foot high. 
Leaves linear, acute, rather broad, flat, short, somewhat hairy, rough 
on the edges and keel, enveloped at the base in purgle scales. 
Bracteas \eafy, erect, the lower ones only with short sheaths Barren 
spikelets terminal, solitary, oblong, ovate, with brown oblong acute 
scales, and a pale mid-ribs, fertile spikelets two or three, sometimes 
single, the upper nearly sessile, the rest on short peduncles, rough, 
erect, the scales ovate, acute, brown, with a green mid rib, terminating 
in a short bristly point. Fruit sub-globoso-obovate, somewhat 
iriangular, with a short beak, bifid, thickly clothed with grey pube- 
scence. Siigmas three. 
Habitat.— Meadows near Merston Mearsy, Wiltshire. 
Perennial ; flowering in June. 
58. C. clandesti'na, Gooden. (Fig. 1439.) Dwarf silvery Carex. 
Barren spikelet solitary, pedunculated, with ovate lanceolate scales ; 
fertile two or three, remote, few flowered, concealed by the membra- 
nous bracteas ; stigmas three; fruit obovate, triquetrous, with a short 
