100 ENGLISH BOTANV. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high. Spike li to 2 J inches lon<r, with 7 to 12 

 spikelets -^^ to ^ inch long. Fruit Jl inch long, remarkable for its 

 numerous strong ribs, and tapering, slightly deflexcd, and nearly entire 

 beak. 



An alpine variety has been distinguished under the name C. Geb- 

 hardi, Schkxhr (A'?<»/A, Enum. Plant, vol. ii. p. 402). This has the 

 spikelets fewer-flowered, and consecjuently consi(leral)ly shorter than 

 in the typical form. Professor Babington includes it in his Manual, 

 but gives no station for it, and I have seen no British specimens. 



Elongated Sedge. 



French, Carex alonge. German, Verliingerte Segge. 



SPECIES XX.- CAREX LAGOPINA. WaJd. 



Plate MDCXXXIII. 



Bekli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIII. Tab. CCIV. Fig. 543. 



C. leporina, " Linn." ScJikuhr, Eng. Bot. Suppl. No. 2815. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. 

 ed. viii. p. 502. Kunth, Enum. PI. Vol. II. p. 393. 



Rootstock thinly ctespitose, with short stolons. Stems decumbent- 

 ascending, usually curved below, very slender, wiry, triangular, slightly 

 rough immediately under the spike. Leaves much shorter than the 

 stem, recurved-erect, narrowly linear, flat, slightly rough on the 

 margins at the apex, deep bright green, fiot glaucous. Spike very 

 short, compound, not interrupted, without a foliaceous bract of the 

 base. Spikelets 2 to 4, ovoid or ovoid-fusiform, simple, male at the 

 base, with scarious bi'acts. Glumes of the female flowers broadly- 

 ovate, acute or mucroiiate, dark reddish-brown, with yellowish keels 

 and very narrow white scarious margins, a little shorter than the fruit. 

 Fruit reddish-brown, ascending, sessile, oval-elliptical, slightly bi- 

 convex, atteiniated at the base, with numerous rather strong ribs on 

 each face, rather abruptly acuminated into a straight triangular-subulate 

 smooth-edged entire beak about one-third the length of the rest of the 

 fruit. Stigmas 2. Nut pale reddish brown, oval, plano-convex. 



On damp rocks and grassy places on high mountains. Very rare. 

 Discovered in 183G by Dr. Dickie, on the south-west comer of the 

 table top of Loch-na-gar, 200 or 300 feet below the top : I found it 

 in 1851 plentifully by the side of a small loch on the north side of 

 the hill, the name of the loch being, I believe, Loch-an-ean. Spar- 

 ingly on the slope of Cairn-towl, ascending from the Garachary Burn. 



Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Plant growing in small tufts, with 2 to 8 flowering stems and 

 several barren shoots in each tuft. Stems 3 inches to 1 foot long, 



