146 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Group X._FULViE. 



lioofstock ca'ppitose or subco?spitose or shortly creeping, wdth or 

 without elongate stolons. Spikes remote or distant, more rarely 

 approximate. Male spike 1, conspicuously stalked, or rarely sub- 

 sessile or sessile, rarely with a few female flowers, rather thick, rarely 

 with a second small male spike at the base. Female spikes 2 to 4, 

 dense, on exserted or included stalks, the upper ones on shorter stalks 

 or subsessile, ascending or spreading, erect or drooping. Glumes of 

 the female flowers reddish-brown or chestnut-brown, with a broad 

 green or olive stripe down the middle. Bracts all foliaceous, long, 

 sometimes falling short of and sometimes exceeding the apex of the 

 male spike ; the lowest one or all with closed sheaths which are often 

 long. Fruit brown or olive, or green changmg to yellow or yellowish- 

 olive, ovate and plano-convex- or turbinate- or ovoid-trigonous, con- 

 siderably inflated, glal)rous, shining or dull, often pmictate, more or 

 less distinctly ribbed, with a long rough-edged plano-convex or rarely 

 subulate beak ending iu 2 short or subulate teeth. Stigmas 3. Nut 

 trigonous or triquetrous, loosely covered by the perigynium. 



Stem leafy throughout or only at the base. Leaves rather narrow, 

 rarely broad. 



SPECIES LI— CAREX L.ffiVlGATA. Sm. 



Plate MDCLXVI. 



Eekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIII. Tab. CCLIV. Fig. 623. 

 Blllof, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1574. 



Rootstock subcffispitose, with short thick creeping branches, each of 

 which produces several flowering stems, and several barren shoots at 

 the apex. Stem erect, rather slender, rather stifl', triangular, smooth 

 and leafy throughout. Leaves shorter than the stem, rather flaccid, 

 broadly linear, those on the barren shoots longer and broader than 

 those on the stem, flat, very slightly rough on the margins at the apex 

 only, pale green, not glaucous. Male spike 1, longly stalked, fusiform- 

 cylindrical, trigonous, with oblong-lanceolate subacute or mucronate 

 fiiwn-coloured glumes with a narrow green midrib. Female sjjikes 2, 

 more rarely 3, distant, the lowest on a long moderately e.xserted 

 stalk, the upper on a short slightly exserted stalk, at length inclined 

 or pendulous, cylindrical or oblong-cylindrical, rather dense, many- 

 flowei'ed. Bracts sheathing, foliaceous, the lamina of the lowest one as 

 long as or longer than its own spike, but not reachmg the apex of the 

 male spike. Glumes of the female flowers ovate, acuminate, and 



