94 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



usually two, stalked, erect, rather distant, with an intermediate 

 sessile barren one, not rising so high as the uppermost. Brac- 

 teas solitary, at the base of each stalk or catkin, tubular, or in- 

 volute, red brown, with a white, membranous, oblique margin, 

 acute, very rarely tipped with a minute leafy point. Scales obo- 

 vate, abrupt, red brown, with a green keel, and membranous 

 white margin, broadest in those of the barren catkin, which are 

 most imbricated. Stam. 3. Stigm. 3, on a short style. Fruit 

 obovate, abrupt, triangular, green, downy, entire at the summit. 

 -Seed brown, smooth, sharply triangular. 

 C. pedata, long a doubtful plant, which could not be determined 

 by the works or the herbarium of Linnaeus, whose synonyms are 

 incorrect, has been recovered by Dr. Wahlenberg, and figured 

 in his i^. Lapp. 1. 14. Nothing, as he observes, can be more 

 distinct from our digitata ; as well as from C. ornithopoda of 

 Willdenow, the pedata of Schkuhr, t. H./. 37, Haller's n. 1375, 

 and Micheli's t.32.f. 14. The corymbose inflorescence of this 

 last keeps it separate from C. digitata. 



22. C. clandestina. Dwarf Silvery Carex. 



Bracteas membranous, scarcely leafy. Fertile catkins re- 

 mote, of few flowers, inclosed in the sheathing bracteas. 

 Leaves channelled. 



C. clandestina. Gooden. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 2. 1C7. Ft. Br. 980. 



Engl. Bot. v.30.t.2l 24. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 254. Schk. Car. 8 1 . 



t.K.f.43. 

 C. n. 1370. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 189. 

 C. humilis. Leys. Hal. 1 75. Schreb. Lips. 65. " Host. Gram. v. \. 50. 



t. 67." Ehrh. Phytoph. 88. 

 C. prostrata. Allion. Pedem. v. 2. 267. 

 Cyperoides montanum humile angustifoliiim, culmo veluti folioso, 



spicis obsesso. Scheuchz. Agr. 407. t. 10./. 1. Mich. Gen. 63. 



t.32.f.S. 



On dry exposed limestone rocks, very rare. 



On St. Vincent's rocks, Bristol, just below the Hot wells. Mr. Sole. 



Perennial. May. 



Root woody, with many stout fibres. Stems from 1 to 3 inches 

 high, erect, sheathed with bracteas, not leafy. Leaves radical, 

 numerous, tufted, linear, narrow, channelled, smooth, lasting 

 through the winter, and spreading widely as they advance in 

 age. Edges of the bracteas, as well as of the scales of each cat- 

 kin, remarkable for their silvery wliiteness. Barren catkin ter- 

 minal, erect, acute, many-flowered. Fertile ones 2 or 3, of 

 very fewjlorets, concealed, except their 3 long stigmas, in the 

 hollows of the bracteas. Stam. 3. Style scarcely any. Fruit 

 obovate, triangular, downy, entire at the summit. Seed trian- 

 gular. 



