CAREX. 393 



tile 3 or 4 long narrowed helow lower ones stalked, bracts leaf- 

 like erect overtopping the stem, fr. elliptic lenticular without 

 veins broader than the gl., nut oblong narrowed below with a 

 short slender beak, st. trigonous smooth.— E. B. 8. 2758. — St. 

 1 — 4 ft. high, with convex faces. Spikes rather distant. Gl. 

 usually short, narrower than the yellowish-green fr., reddish 

 purple with a pale midrib. — Alpine boggy tablelands of the 

 Clova Mountains and in the valley by the bridge at Clova. P. 

 VII. S. 



29. C. vtdgdris (Fries) ; spikes erect, male 1 or 2, fertile 3 — 4 

 subsessile cylindrical, bracts with short auricles leaflike, fr. elliptic 

 plane-convex with many veins below and a short entire beak, 

 nut roundish very blunt, st. triquetrous rough towards the top. 

 — C. ctsspitosa Hm., E. B. 1507. C. Ooodmovii G&j.—St. 

 about a foot high. L. slender, not keeled. Bracts without 

 sheaths. Spikes near together, short. Gl. blunt, shorter than 

 fr., purple ; keel slender, pale green. Fr. greenish or with a 

 purple tinge. Nut rather broader than long. — Marshes, P. V. 

 VI. E. S. I. 



[C. Oibsini (Bah.) -jfr. lanceolate acute, nut broadly obovoid. — 



A. iVi IT. xi, t. 5. — St. 6 — 8 in. high. Perianth nearly ttcice as 

 long as the nut, gradually narrowed from below the middle to the 

 top. Perhaps a monstrosity of C. vulgaris. — Hebden Bridge, 

 Yorkshire. Not recently found. P. "VI.] E. 



tt Nut with S angles. Stigmas 3, rarely 2. 

 X Fruit glabrous. Terminal spike male at its base. 



30. C. alp'ina (Sw.) ; spikes 1 — 4 roundish or oblong conti- 

 guous nearly sessile, fr. obovoid veinless rough above with a 

 short notched beak, gl. acutish falling short of fr., nut obovoid 

 triquetrous blunt with a short cylindrical beak, bract scarcely 

 overtopping the spikes, st. triangular rough towards the top. — 



B. t. 356. 0. Vahlii B. B. S. 2666. Schk. Gg. 94 & Ppp. L54. 

 -ffi. 235. — St. 6 — 12 in. high, erect. Gl. brown or black. — Glen 

 Callater and Glen Fiagh, Clova. P. VII. S. 



31. C. Buxbaum'ii (Wahl.) ; spikes 3 — 4 oblong sessile conti- 

 guous, the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, fr. oval blunt 

 compressed (ultimately trigonous) bidentate roughish above 

 veined, gl. cuspidate lower exceeding fr., nut obovoid trigonous 

 blimtapj'cjrfaife, lower bract leaflike. — E.B.8. 2885. S.h.W. Schk. 

 X. & Gg. 76. B. 235. B. 438.— St. 1—2 feet high, triquetrous, 

 rough. SheatJis of the I. connected by netUkc filaments. Gl. 

 nearly black, with a green keel prolonged into a cuspidate point. 

 Fr. glaucous green. — Harbour Island near Toom Bridge, Lough 

 Neagh. P. VI. ' I. 



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