96 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES XVI— CARE X RE MOT A, Unn. 



Plate ]\IDCXXVII. 



llckh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Hclv. Vol. VIII. Tab. CCXH. 

 r.ilhit, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 867. 



Rootstock densely ctcspitose, with very shortly creejiing chordor- 

 rhizal branches, but no elongate stolons. Steins slender, weak, bluntly 

 trigonous, smooth, or sometimes very slightly roughened, immediately 

 below the spike. Leaves about as long as the stem, narrowly linear, 

 very slightly channelled, slightly rough on the margins towards tlie 

 apex, pale bright green, not glaucous. Spike long, compound, greatly 

 interrupted, especially below, with a foliaceous bract at the base 

 exceeding the spike. Spikelets 3 to 10, ovate-fusiform, simple, male 

 at the base, female at the middle and apex, 3 or 4 of the lowest 

 spikelets \\\t\\ long foliaceous bracts. Glumes of the female flowers 

 oval-lanceolate, acute, very pale greenish, with a green keel and broad 

 pure wliite scarious margins, shorter than the fruit. Fruit pale-olive, 

 adpressed-ascending, elliptical-lanceolate, attenuated at the base, plano- 

 convex, with 3 to 7 fine ribs on the back, and about 3 very faint 

 ones on the face, rather abruptly acuminated into a roughish-edged 

 bifid beak, not half the length of the fruit. Xut whitish, ovate-oval, 

 apiculate, plano-convex. 



In moist woods and on hedgebanks. Ratlier frequent throughout 

 England. More rare in Scotland, and not extending to the extreme 

 north. Not unfrequent, but widely distributed in Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Sumnier. 



Stems very numerous, growing in dense tufts; the branches of 

 the rootstock producing several stems one before the other, so that 

 technically the species is chordorrhizal, though from the extreme 

 closeness of the stems this is not readily noticeable. Stems weak, 

 arching, 1 to 2 feet high, with two of the angles more rounded off 

 than is usual in the genus, the rachis of the panicle usually the only 

 part which is rough. Leaves very narrow, not above yV inch broad. 

 Spikes 3 to 6 inches long, with 3 to 8 spikelets, tlie lower ones very 

 distant and with remarkably long foliaceous bracts. Fruit about ^ 

 inch long. 



Carex tenella {Sm. Engl. Fl. vol. xiv. p. 83, non Sclilin'.) is said 

 to be a starved state of C. remota. I have a ])lant from Fareham, 

 Hants, collected by Dr. IMacreiglit, which evidently belongs to C. 

 remota, and appears to agree with Smith's description of his C. tenella, 



