98 MONOECIA-TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



27. C. Mielichoferi. Loose-spiked Rock Carex. 



Sheaths not half the length of the flower-stalks. Fertile 

 catkins three, distant, erect, lax. Fruit ovate, tumid, 

 triangular, rough-edged ; its beak cloven, membranous 

 at the summit. 



C. Mielichoferi. Willd. Sp. PL v. 4. 276. " Schk. Car.f. 198." 



Comp. erf. 4. 152. Engl. Bot. v. 32. t. 2293. Hook. Scot. 264. 

 C. alpinaj Hoppe. Willd. 



On alpine rocks in the Highlands of Scotland, 



Upon the rocky ledges of Craig Challoch, Breadalbane. Mr. JV. 

 Borrer. 



Perennial. August. 



Root dark brown, creeping. Stems a foot high, leafy, smooth, 

 roundish. Leaves flat, smooth. Bracteas like them, but more 

 tapering. Fertile catkins 3, on stalks thrice the length of the 

 sheaths, erect, hardly an inch long, cylindrical, lax ; the lower- 

 most of about 1 'IJiorets, uppermost of half as many ; barren one 

 of nearly the same shape and size, with more Jlorets, and longer 

 blunter scales. Stam. 3. Stigm. 3. Fruit ovate-oblong, trian- 

 gular; the edges rough upwards ; beak short, rounded, mem- 

 branous and cloven at the end j longer than the rounded, rusty 

 scales. 



28. C. speirostachya. Dense short-spiked Carex. 



Sheaths shorter than the flower-stalks. Fertile catkins 

 about three, distant, erect, ovate, dense, many-flowered. 

 Fruit ovate, triangular, ribbed, smooth, with a deeply 

 cloven beak, membranous at the orifice. 



C. speirostachya. Swartz Ms. 

 C. distans. Fl. Dan. t. 1049. 

 C. n. 1382 j3. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 193. 

 C. n. 1383. Hall. Nomencl. 125. 



In marshes among the Scottish hills. 



About Mugdoch castle, 9 miles north of Glasgow ; also on the hills 

 of Lanarkshire and Perthshire. Mr. David Don. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root brown, creeping. Stem from 9 to 15 inches high, erect, 

 firm, triangular, smooth ; leafy at the base. Leaves chiefly ra- 

 dical, upright, firm, flat, taper-pointed, for the most part smooth, 

 except a slight and partial marginal roughness, their height 

 scarcely half that of the stem. Bracteas narrower ; the lower 

 ones with a sheathing base, seldom half so long as the fiower- 

 stalks; the upper much shorter. Fertile catkins mosth 3, half 

 or three quarters of an inch long, tawny, ovate, dense', many- 

 flowered, with acute, but not pointed, scales; barren one lanceo- 



