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tlie frround, the persistent fuscous scales which are at the base of the 

 totems forming a sort of cushion. Steins stout, 1 to 4 feet high, with 

 flat not convex sitles as in C. teretiuscula and C. ])nradoxa. Leaves 

 nuicli broader and rougliwr. Spike commonly 3 to 6 inches long, much 

 more coniiound, and with the lower spikelets, often 1 or 2 inches long, 

 compound and greatly interrujitcd. Bracts with much broader and 

 more silvery scarious margins, which give a paler aspect to the spikelets. 

 Fruit about the same size as that of C. teretiuscula, but more truncate 

 at the base, less gibbous on the back, more broadly winged and with 

 many more short ribs. From C. panidoxa the fruit differs in being of 

 a duller brown, much less swollen, with the I'ibs far less distinct., and 

 having a more cons]jicuous •wing. The nut resembles that of C. tereti- 

 uscula much more than the remarkable one of C. pai'adoxa, but is 

 more attenuated below. 



In weak specimens the spike becomes almost compound, with the 

 spikelets short, ovoid, and separated; in this state bearing a con- 

 siderable resemblance to C. Bonninghausiana. 



Greater Panicled Sedge. 



French, Carex panieule. German, Bkpige Segge. 



Group G MURICAT^. 



Rootstock CEespitose. Spikes green or yellowish, compound or 

 slightly decompound, continuous or interrupted. Bracts short, only 

 a few of the lowest with setaceous herbaceous points. Spikelets male 

 at the apex, female at the base. Fruit subsessile, spreading, with a 

 long beak. Stigmas 2. Nut plano-convex. 



SPECIES xni— CAREX VULPINA. Linn. 



Plate MDCXXIII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIH. Tab. CCXVII. 

 Billot, n. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2363. 



Rootstock densely ceespitose, without elongated stolons. Stems 

 stout, stiff, ascending, triquetrous, very rough in the upper part. 

 Leaves shorter than the stem, broadly linear, acuminate, flat,* rough 

 on the midrib and margins towards the apex, pale green but not 

 glaucous. Spikes slightly decompound, oblong-cylindrical, continuous 

 or slightly interrupted below, with a bract at the base having a seta- 

 ceous herbaceous point as long as or shorter than the spike. Spikelets 



* The term " flat " is here applied to the loaves of those Carices in which the 

 margins arc deflexed or flat, for in all the Bi-itish species there is a central furrow. 



