CYl'ERACEiE. 89 



spherical hump on the back tow.ards the base, on which there are 2 to 

 4 ribs. 



Var. 3, for specimens of Avliich I am indebted to Mi*. J. Sidebothani, 

 diflers only in having tlie stems more numerous from each root, more 

 triquetrous above, the spike longer, 1 to 1\ inch, and the lower 

 spikelets frequently compound. 



Lesser Panicled Sedge. 



Frcncli, Carrx arwiKli. German, Bamlliche Scrjge. 



SPECIES XL— CAR EX PARADOX A. Willd. 



Plate MDCXXI. 



Tteieh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. YIH. Tab. CCXXTI. Fig. 573. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 678. 



Rootstock densely csespitose, growing in large tufts, without elong- 

 ate stolons. Stems slender, wiry, trigonous, rough in the upper 

 2)art. Leaves as long as the stem, narrowly linear, channelled, rough 

 on the edges, green, not glaucous. Spikes usually slightly decom- 

 pound, rarely greatly compound, ovoid or fusiform, continuous or in- 

 terrupted belowy with a bract at the base having a short setaceous 

 herbaceous point usually much shorter than the lowest spikelet. 

 Spikelets 5 to 8, fusiform or cylindrical, usually slightly compound 

 towards the base, only the lowest spikelet with a short herbaceous 

 bract, all of them male at the apex and female below. Glumes of the 

 female flowers ovate, acuminate, reddish-brown with narrow pale 

 margins, about as long as the fruit. Fruit chestnut-brown, green on 

 the margins towards the apex, paler on the beak, shortly stipitate, 

 ovate-truncate at the base, greatly swollen on the back, where there 

 are 7 to 9 short ribs, slightly convex on the face, where there are 5 

 to 7 short ribs, rather abruptly acuminated into a flattened 2-toothed 

 beak, as long as the rest of the fruit and serrulate on the margins, 

 but not winged. Styles slightly thickened towards the base ; stigmas 

 2. Nut brown, rhomboidal-ovoid, doubly convex. 



In wet bogs. Very local. At Hoveton, Norfolk ; and in Yorkshire, 

 where it is plentiful in Askham bogs and in a carr between Healaugh 

 and Askham Richard. In Ireland it is plentiful in the boggy wood 

 at Ladiston, on the shore of Belvedere Lake, near MuUingar, co. 

 Westmeath. 



England, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Much more densely tufted than C. teretiuscula, and with more 

 numerous black sheaths at the l)ase of each stem. Stems similar but 

 usually taller, being commonly 2 to 3 feet liigh. Spikes longer, 1 to ?> 



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