cyi'eracf;e. 103 



by wliich the two can be separated, and that disappears to a f]^reat 

 extent in cultivation. 



I have had the var. 3 growing for several years. The original root 

 was sent from Aberdeenshire by Mr. C. Bailey. 



White Sedge. 



German, Weissgraue Segge. 



Group L.— OVALES. 



Rootstock ca-spitose. Spike very slightly interrupted. Bracts 

 minute, very seldom foliaceous, rarely even setaceous. Spikelets brown, 

 rarely white, male at the base, female at the apex. Fruit ascending 

 or erect, substipitate or sessile, with a rather long bidentate beak, and 

 a more or less evident wing on the margins. Stigmas 2. 



SPECIES XXn.— CAREX OVALIS. Good. 



Plate MDCXXXIV. 



Beicli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VTH. Tab. CCXI. 



C. leporina, Linn. Fl. Suec. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 869. Fries, 



Summ. Vcg. Scand. p. 73. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Ft. Vol. HI. p. 397. Pari. 



Fl. Ital. Vol. II. p. 139. Eeicli. Ic. I.e. p. 8. 



Rootstock rather densely ctespitose, without stolons. Stems ascend- 

 ing, rather slender, stiff, triquetrous, slightly rough immediately 

 below the spike. Leaves shorter than the stem, erect, narrowly 

 linear, flat, slightly rough on the margins, bright green, not glaucous. 

 Spike short, compound, continuous, without a setaceous bract at the 

 base, or Avith a very short one, rarely with an elongated foliaceous 

 bract. Spikelets 3 to 6, oval- or obovate-ovoid, simple, nW male at 

 the base, with scarious bi'acts; lowest bract alone with a short 

 point. Glumes of the female flowers lanceolate-ovate, acute, reddish- 

 broAvn, wnth a green midrib and narrow white scarious margins, 

 about as long as the fruit. Fruit yellowish-brown with green ^vings, 

 erect, substipitate, rhombic-ovate, faintly-ribbed, piano- or concavo- 

 convex, abruptly narrowed at the base, and rather abruptly acumi- 

 nated into a long triangular-subulate rough-edged deeply bifid beak, 

 the whole surrounded by a nai'row membranous wing. Stigmas 2. 

 Nut chestnut, obovate-oval, nan-owed at the base, rounded at the 

 apex, plano-convex. 



Var. a, getizcina. 



Bract of the lowest spikelet without a foliaceovis point, or with one 

 shorter than the spike. 



