152 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES LV.— CAREX PULVA. Good. 



Plates MDCLXIX. MDCLXX. 



Bdlot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1087. 



C. Hornsuchiana, " Hoppe." Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 884. Gi-en. 

 & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 425. Eartm. Handbk. i Scand. Fl. ed. ix. p. 227. 



Rootstock subcsespitose, or more frequently creeping, with rather 

 long creeping branches, each of which produces 1 flowering stem and 

 several barren shoots, and usually rather elongate stolons. Stem 

 erect, slender, stiff, triangular, smooth throughout or slightly rough at 

 the apex (rarely rough throughout), leafy only near the base. Leaves 

 much shorter than the stem, firm, linear, flat, rough on the margins 

 towards the apex, pale green, scarcely glaucous. Male spike 1 (rarely 

 with a small one at the base), longly (more rarely shortly) stalked, 

 linear-fusiform, subacute, with oblong-lanceolate obtuse orange-brown 

 glumes with broad pale scarious margins. Female spikes 1 to 3, 

 remote, the lowest one much above the middle of the stem, on a 

 long included or more or less exserted stalk, the upper ones on 

 short included stalks, erect, oval-oblong or ovate-ovoid, dense, many- 

 flowered. Bracts sheathing, foliaceous, thejamina of the lowest one 

 longer than its own spike, but not reaching the apex of the male 

 spike. Glumes of the female flowers ovate, acuminate, acute but not 

 mucronate, chestnut-brown, usually with a green midrib and broad 

 silvery-wliite scarious margins (rarely wholly orange-brown with a 

 green midrib), shorter and a little narrower than the fruit. Fruit 

 spreading or spreading-ascending, not stipitate, oval-elliptical, narrowed 

 towards the base and apex, ovoid-trigonous, considerably inflated, 

 with several rather strong ribs, and 2 stronger marginal ones, bright 

 green, ultimately yelloAvish-olive, concolorous, rather abruptly nar- 

 rowed into a rather long straight plano-convex rough-edged rather 

 shortly 2-toothed beak, about two-thirds as long as the rest of the 

 fruit; teeth of the beak erect, with membranous inner margins. 

 Stigmas 3. Nut pale yellow, oval-obovate, triqueti'o-trigonous, trun- 

 cate and with a short apiculus at the apex, loosely covered by the 

 perigynium. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Plate MDCLXIX. 



Uekli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIII. Tab. CCLII. Fig. 620. 



Carcx fulva, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1295 ; and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 107. Beicli. 

 Ic. I.e. p. 23. 



Stem slightly rough towards the top. Stalk of the lowest female 



