84 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Glumes of the female flowers deltoid-ovate, acute, the lower ones 

 aristate, shorter than the fruit, brown, with pale scarious margins. 

 Fruit pale brown, roundish-ovate, inflated, not ribbed, not winged, 

 rather abruptly acuminated into a subulate smooth entire beak, about 

 one-fourth as long as the fruit. Stigmas 2. Nut roundish-obovate, 

 plano-convex. 



On sandy seashores. Local, and apparently confined to the north- 

 east coasts of Scotland from Forfar to Sutherland and Shetland. It 

 has been reported from the counties of Haddington, Fife, and the Isle 

 of Harris; but these localities require to be confirmed by reliable 

 authority, though the plant is not unlikely to be found there. 



Scotland. Perenniak Summer. 



A well-marked species, with long much-branched creeping rhizomes 

 producing flowering stems 1 to 6 inches long, which become curved 

 after flowering. Spikes or heads ^ to | inch long, truncate at the 

 base, tapering towards the apex, the bract oiten with a very short seta- 

 ceous point. Fruit about ^ inch long, with a raised line round the 

 margins. 



The only recent specimens of this species which I have seen were 

 gathered by myself on the coast of Forfar. 



In the specimens from the Alps the stem is straight, but it is curved 

 in aU the British examples which I have .seen. 

 Curved Sedge. 



SPECIES VII.— C AREX DIVISA. Suds. 



Plate MDCXVI. 



Txnch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VTII. Tab. CCV. Fig. 545. 

 B:IU, Fl. Gall et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2755. 



Rootstock longly chordorrhizal, slightly branched, with short or 

 elongate stolons. Stem erect, rather slender, wiry, erect, triangular, 

 slightly rough on the angles in the upper half. Leaves nearly as long 

 as the stem, narrowly linear, channelled, with triquetrous points, rough 

 on the edges, green, very slightly glaucous. Spikes compound, some- 

 times subcapitate, ovoid and continuous, or oblong and interrupted 

 below, with a foliaceous bract at the base, of variable length, often 

 greatly overtopping the spike. Spikelets 3 to 10, ovate-fusiform, the 

 lower ones with subfoliaceous bracts, all with a few male flowers 

 at the apex. Glumes of the female flowers broadly ovate, acuminate- 

 cuspidate or mucronate, as long as or longer than the fruit, shining 

 brown, with paler margins and midrib. Fruit orange-brown, broadly 

 ovate, plano-convex, faintly many-ribbed, not winged, abruptly acumi- 

 nated into a bifid rough-edged beak about half as long as the fruit. 



