OLASS XX. ORDER III. ] CAREX. 1187 
with a green mid-rib, shorter than the fruit, and dark brown. Fruit 
large, ovate at the base, conical above, smooth, pale green, striated, 
with a narrow compressed tapering beak, bifid at the apex. Stigmas 
three. 
Habitat.—Bogs, the margins of pools, &c.; not very common, 
Perennial ; flowering in May. 
This is nearly allied to the last species, but its leaves are broader, 
flat, brighter green; the spikelets are not so long, broader, and the 
fruit is larger, not globose and obtuse at the base of the beak, but 
ovate at the base, gradually narrowing in a conical manner into the 
compressed beak. 
64. C. paludo'sa, Gooden. (Fig. 1445.) Lesser common Carex. 
Barren spikelets two or three, with the lower scales obtuse; fertile 
two or three, cylindrical, densely flowered, erect, sessile, or pedun- 
culated, the scales lanceolate, acuminate; fruit ovate oblong, com- 
pressed, striated, smooth, with a short acuminate bifid beak; bracteas 
leafy, without sheaths; stem acutely angular, rough; root creeping. 
English Botany,” t. 807.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 120.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 344.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 291. 
Root creeping. Stem erect, about two feet high, acutely triangular, 
and rough, leafy below. Leaves broadly linear, with a tapering point, 
a pale glaucous green, long, rough on the margins and keel, striated, 
and sheathed at the base. Sracteas long, leafy, without sheaths. 
Barren spikelets terminal, three or four, oblong, obtuse, its scales dark 
brown, with a green mid-rib, the lower ones always oblong, obtuse, 
the upper generally so, but sometimes acute, fertile spikelets three or 
four, rather narrow, cylindrical, erect, densely flowered, sessile, or the 
upper ones mostly sessile, rarely pedunculated, and the lower ones 
mostly so, the scales lanceolate, dark brown, with a green mid-rib, 
terminating in an acuminated point, sometimes cuspidate. Fruit 
ovate oblong, compressed, green, smooth, numerously and deeply 
striated, with a short acute beak, more or less bifid, rather longer 
than the scales. Stigmas three. 
Habitat.—Banuks of rivers and ditches; common. 
Perennial; flowering in May. 
65. C. ripar'ia, Curt. (Fig. 1446.) Great common Carex. Barren 
spikelets three to five, with acuminated scales; fertile three to five, 
cylindrical, acute, erect, densely flowered, sessile, or pedunculated, the 
seales lanceolate, or cuspidate ; fruit oblong, conical, smooth, slightly 
striated, with a very short flat deeply bifid beak; bracteas very long, 
leafy, without sheaths; stem acutely angular, rough ; root creeping. 
English Botany, t. 579.—English Flora, vol. iv. p 121.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 344.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 291. 
Root extensively creeping. Stem erect, about three feet high, 
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