1186 CAREX. [OLASs XXI. ORDER III 
Habitat.—Wet shady places and pastures ; frequent. 
Perennial ; flowering in May and June. 
b. Fruit smooth. 
62. C. ampulla'cea, Gooden. (Fig. 1443.) Slender beaked Bottle 
Carex. Barren spikelets one to three, linear, with oblong scales ; 
fertile two or three, rather distant, long, cylindrical, on short pedun- 
cles, erect, with lanceolate scales; fruit sub-globose, inflated, smooth, 
with a slender linear bifid beak; bracteas leafy, withont sheath ; 
leaves linear, channeled, glaucous; stem obtusely angular; root 
creeping. 
English Botany, t. 780.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 124.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed 4. vol. i. p. 343.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 292. 
fioot creeping. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, obtusely 
angular, smooth, or a little rough at the top. eaves linear, with a 
long tapering point, striated, a glaucous green, rough on the edges 
and keel, towards the point sheathed. Sracteas leafy, the lower one 
very long, without or with very short sheaths. Barren spikelets two 
or three, terminal, long, slender, cylindrical. Scales oblong, ovate, 
brown, with a narrow white membranous margin, often torn, fertile 
spikelets two or three, rather distant from each other, erect, or 
slightly drooping, from one to two inches long, cylindrical, densely 
flowered, with pale brown lanceolate scales, with a green rib. Fruit 
globose, inflated, smooth, green, striated, the beak slender, linear, 
compressed, more than half as long as the fruit, the beak bifid. 
Stigmas three. 
Habitat.—Pools, marshes, and the banks of rivers; not very 
common; most frequent in Scotland. 
Perennial ; flowering in May. 
63. OC. vesicar'ia, Linn. (Fig. 1444.) Short-spiked Bladder Carex. 
Barren spikelets one to three, linear, with lanceolate scales; fertile 
two to four, rather distant, oblong, cylindrical, sessile, or on short 
peduncles, erect, with lanceolate scales; fruit ovato-conical, inflated, 
smooth, with a slender tapering bifid beak; bracteas leafy, without 
sheaths; leaves broadly linear, flat; stem acutely angular, rough ; 
root creeping. 
English Botany, t. 779.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 123.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 8343.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 291. 
Root creeping. Stem erect, about two feet high, acutely angular, 
and rough, especially upwards, leafy below. Leaves rather broadly 
linear, bright green, rough on the margins and keel, striated, sheathed 
at the base. Bracteas leafy, without sheaths, the lower ones long, 
erect. Barren spikelets two or three, linear, long, with dark brown 
lanceolate scales, with a pale mid-rib and scarious margin, fertile two 
to four, oblong, cylindrical, the upper ones mostly sessile, the lower 
on short peduncles, densely floweced, the scales narrow, lanceolate, 
