CAREX. 375 



with a setaceous leaflike point, fr. obovate trigonous narrowed 

 below equalling gl., beak short nearly entire, " nut elliptic-oblong 

 triangular shortly-stalked and shortly-beaked." — E. B. 616. 

 Schk. H. 38. H. b. 14.— St. 6—8 in. high, erect, sheathed at 

 the base, leafless, taller than the flat radical leaves. — Woods on 

 Umestone, rare. P. IV. V. E. 



+++++ Fr. hairy or downy or scabrous. Brads not sheathing 

 {except slightly in No. 60). — \. Barren spike 1. 



47. C. preecox ( Jacq.) ; fertile spikes 1 — 3 oblong-ovate near 

 together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest leaflike and slightly 

 sheathing, gl. broadly ovate-acuminate, /r. ovate-rhomboidal tri- 

 gonous with an entire mouth, nut obovate narrowed below trigo- 

 nous, base of the style surrounded by a prominent ring, stoloni- 

 ferous.—E.B. 1099. Schk.F. 27. H.b.24.— St.3— ISin.high. 



Lowermost spike sometimes slightly stalked. — Dry places. P. 



48. C. montana (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 —3 ovate crowded sessile, 

 bracts small membranous the lowest with an awlshaped point, 

 gl. of fertile spikes obtuse notched and mucronate,/r. narrowed 

 below oblong-obovate trigonous with a short notched beak, nut 

 oblong narrowed below with a pyramidal beak, root fibrous from 

 a shaggy thick branched rhizome.— £. B S. 2924. Schk. F. 2.9. 

 H. b. 21. R. 262. C. collina H. and A. — St. about a span long, 

 slender. L. narrow ; sheaths of lower 1. red. Gl. very dark ; 

 midrib narrowly yellowish. Fr. hairy, its beak purple.— Near 

 Tonbridge Wells. Wynd Clifi; Chepstow. P. IV. V. E. 



49. C. pilulifera (L.) ; fertile spikes about 3 roundish near 

 together sessile, bracts small lowest scarcely leaflike awlshaped 

 not sheathing, gl. broadly-ovate mucronate, fr. stalked subglobose 

 with a short bifid beak, nut subglobose subtrigonous narrowed 

 below, root fibrous.— E. B. 885. Schk. I. 39. H. b. 20. R. 260. 

 — St. 6 — 12 in. long, slender, at length decumbent. Base of the 

 style enlarged.' — Wet heaths. P. V. 



50. C. tomentosa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 nearly sessile cy- 

 lindrical blunt, lowermost bract leaflike with a very short sheath, 

 gl. broadly ovate acute, fr. obovate subtrigonous scarcely beaked 

 slightly emarginate, nut obtuse trigonous narrowed below with a 

 short beak constricted at its base, stoloniferous. — E. B. 2046. 

 Schk. F. 28. H. b. 28. R. 263.— St. a foot high, with 3 sharp 

 angles, rough upwards, erect. Beak of nut slightly swelling 

 upwards. Fr. with copious white down, mouth very broad. — 

 Water-meadows at Merston Measey, Wilts. P. VI. E. 



