CYl'EliACE^. 125 



hidden by the lai'ge silvery-edsjfed glunielike bracts. Fruit J inch 

 lonfj, similar to that of C. digitata, but with none of the sides hollowed 

 in the middle, the base less attenuated, and the apex more so, and the 

 beak slightly oblique. 



Von J.eysser's name, C. humilis, is certaiidy the oldest, and being 

 now generally adoi)ted on the Continent, and in this country by Pro- 

 fessor Babiugton and Mr. Bentham, it is unadvisable to retain Dr. 

 Goodenough's much more expressive name for this plant, C. clau- 

 destina. 



Dwarf Silvery Sedge. 



French, Carex clandestiii. German, Niedrige Segge. 



Group Q.— MONTANA. 



Rootstock caespitose or more or less creeping, without stolons or 

 with short or elongate stolons. Spikes approximate, or rarely the 

 lower ones remote. Male spike 1, subsessile or very shortly stalked. 

 Female spikes 1 to 4, sessile, or the lower one shortly stalked, dense, 

 erect. Glumes brown, or rarely purplish-black, with or without 

 narrow scarious margins. Lowest bract short, setaceous, or subulate- 

 herbaceous, rarely foliaceous or wholly scarious, without a closed 

 sheath or with a very short one. Fruit green or light brown, obovate- 

 trigonous, not depressed or inflated, downy, very rarely glabrous,* 

 with an extremely short entire or nearly entire point or beak. 

 Stigmas 3. Xut trigonous or triangular, closely covered by the 

 perigynium. Flo^vering stems with leaves only at the base, but no 

 leafless sheaths. 



SPECIES XXX\ai.— CAREX MONTANA. Linn. 



Plate ilDCLH. 



Eclch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIH. Tab. CCLXI. Fig. 633. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 869. 



C. collina, Willd. Eook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 518. Eunth, Vol. II. p. 437. 



Rootstock .subcajspitose, with short thick creeping branches, but no 

 elongate stolons. Stem erect, slightly curved at the apex when in fruit, 

 very slender, weak, triangular, rough at the apex. Leaves spreading or 

 ascending, flaccid, those of the barren shoots sometimes as long as the 

 stem, but usually shorter ; those on the base of the flowering stem 

 extremely short ; all narrowly linear, flat, rough on the margins, dull 

 yellowish-green, not glaucous. Male spike 1, fusiform, sessile. Female 



• C. supina, Walil. belongs to this group. 



