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bract transversely crimped at the base. I have gathered this form in 

 the Deu of Lawers, Brcadalbane, Perth, but it does not deserve to be 

 considered even as a variety. 



Pale Sedge. 



French, Carex pule. German, Blasse Segge. 



Group S— PANICEiE. 



Rootstock creeping, with short or elongate stolons. Spikes remote 

 or distant, rarely approximate. Male spike 1, stalked, usually longly 

 so, sometimes with a few female flowers, sometimes with a small 

 male or androgynous spike at the base. Female spikes 1 to (5, 

 rather lax, or more rarely rather dense, erect, on short included 

 stalks, the lowest ones usually on long and exserted stalks. Glumes 

 of the female flower purplish-brown or brown, commonly with pale 

 margins. Lowest bract foliaceous, rather short, rarely reaching 

 even the base of the male spike, with a long closed sheath. Fruit 

 glaucous green, ultimately yellowish-olive or cream colour, ovoid, 

 acuminated, subtrigonous, not depressed, inflated, smooth, dim or 

 slightly shining, faintly or obsoletely ribbed, with a short or rather 

 short smooth entire or slightly notched straight or deflexed beak. 

 Stigmas 3, rai'ely 2. Nut trigonous (rarely lenticular), loosely covered 

 by the perigynium. 



Stems leafy for only a short distance above the base. Leaves 

 rather stiff". 



SPECIES XLIII.-C ARE X PAN ICE A. Linn. 



Plate MDCLVIII. 



Bekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VHI. Tab. CCXLV. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1570. 



Rootstock extensively creeping, with short or elongate stolons. 

 Stem erect, often slightl}' curved in fruit, rather slender, stiffs, very 

 bluntly trigonous, smooth, glaucous. Leaves suberect, much shorter 

 than the stem, rather stiff", linear, flat, slightly rough on the margins, 

 very glaucous. Male spike 1, usually longly stalked, subcylindrical, 

 sometimes with a small second male or male-tipped spike at its 

 base. Female spikes 2 to 3, remote or distant, the lowest with 

 a long stalk more or less exserted beyond the sheath of its bract, 

 the upper ones with short included stalks, erect, oblong or cylindrical, 

 rather lax, especially at the base, many-flowered. Bracts sheathing, 

 foliaceous, the lowest one longer than its spike, but rarely reaching to 



