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Lomond, Clova Mountains, and Hill of Knock, Dunfermline." The 

 only place in which I have ever gathered it was in Glenquay Moss, 

 Perthshire, 3 or 4 miles north-east of Dollar, where I found it in 

 1838. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootstock shortly creeping, the branches usually short, with the 

 flowering stems in small tufts. Stems 8 to 18 inches high. Leaves 

 |- incli broad or a little more, 5 to 9 inches long. Male spike \ to 

 ^ inch long ; female spikes :f to f inch. Lowest peduncle ^ to 1 inch 

 long. Fruit ^ inch long. 



For the differences between this and C. limosa see the remarks 

 under the following species. 



Broad-leaved Mud Sedge. 



German, Gletscher-Segge. 



SPECIES XXXni— CAREX LIMOSA. Linn. 



Plate MDCXLVH. 



Bekli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VTH. Tab. CCXXXVIII. Fig. 592. 

 BiUof, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1350. 



C. limosa, a, WaJil. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 515. Kuntli, Enum. Plant. 

 Vol. n. p. 461. 



Rootstock creeping, the branches with 1 or 2 stems at the apex, 

 and rather short stolons. Stem erect from a curved base, almost 

 setaceous, weak, triquetrous, rough m the upper part. Leaves erect, 

 rather stiff, shorter than the stem, very narrowly linear, channelled, 

 with long triquetrous points, rough on the margin throughout,, 

 glaucous. !Male spike 1, linear-fusiform or clavate-cylindrical, some- 

 times with a few female flowers at the apex. Female spikes 1 or 

 2, rather remote, on rather long capillary stalks, ultimately drooping, 

 ovate-oblong, usually abrupt at the base, dense- and many-flowered. 

 Lowest bract foliaceous or setaceous, usually not reaching to the base 

 of the male spike, and never extending beyond its apex, scarcely 

 sheathing, with 2 short nearly free auricles at the base, which are 

 sometimes slightly united below, so as to form a very short sheath. 

 Glumes of the female flowers ovate, shortly cuspidate or mucronate, 

 concave, dark brown or chestnut, or fawn-colour, usually with a pale 

 or green midrib, about as long and as broad as the fruit. Fruit 

 ascending, subsessile, ovate-elliptical, trigonous-lenticular, not inflated, 

 faintly ribbed, glaucous green or fawn-colour, rather abruptly acumi- 

 nated into an extremely short entire point or beak. Stigmas 3. Nut 



