82 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



in Pi-ofcssor Balfoin-'s station, on grassy hillocks on Little Craigindal, 

 in company with Astragalus alpinus; I have specimens from Glen 

 Dole, Clova. It is said to occm* on Ben Lawers; and on low rocks 

 by the roadside- going northwards from the inn of Inch-na-duff 

 (Sutherland), on the right hand, growing with Carex capillaris, 

 according to the Rev. Churchhill Babington. 



Scotland. Perciniial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Rootstock much branched, each branch producing numerous flower- 

 ing stems and barren tufts. Leaves generally withered at the apex 

 by the time of flowering. Stems 2 to 8 inches high. Spike }^ to 1 

 inch long, bearing some resemblance to that of C. pulicaris before the 

 fruits of the latter are defloxed, but with a still greater resemblance 

 to that of the foreign Kobresia spicata. Female flowers 2 to 6. Fruit 

 l inch long, often abortive in British specimens. 



Bock Sedge^ 



French, Carex des roehers. German, Felsen Seggc 



Group D.— LEUCOGLOCHIN. 



Spikes simple, solitary, terminal, androgynous, male at the apex, 

 female at the base. Stigmas 3. Glumes of the female flowers de- 

 ciduous. Fruit deflexed. Leaves setaceous, involute. Bracts none. 



SPECIES v.— CAREX PAUCIFLORA. Light/. 



Plate MDCXIV. 



Bekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIH. Tab. CXCVI. Fig. 526. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1562. 



Rootstock creeping or very shortly chordorrhizal, with elongate 

 stolons. Stems erect, filiform, trigonous, slightly rough towards the 

 apex. Leaves nearly as long as the stem, setaceous, slightly rough 

 towards the apex, pale green, slightly glaucous. Spikes terminal, 

 solitary, simple, androgynous ; male towards the apex, female towards 

 the base, without a bract at the base. Glumes of the male flowers linear, 

 those of the female flowers lanceolate; all acute, pale reddish-ochreous, 

 with Avhite margins, those of the female flowers deciduous, three- 

 quarters as long as the fruit. Fruit fiwn -coloured or ochreous, at 

 length deflexed, linear fusiform, acuminated at each end, gradually 

 attenuated into a subulate smooth beak. Stigmas 3. Nut yellowish, 

 oval-ovoid, bluntly trigonous. 



In boixs in mountainous districts. Rare, except in the Scotch 



