CAREX. 367 
833. Sehk. V. Xx. 72. H.b. 32. R. 274.—St. usually curved, 
8—12 in. high, bluntly triangular, smooth. Barren spike nearly 
sessile, blunt, its gl. blunt. L. and bracts very narrow, con- 
volute, long.—Marshes, chiefly near the sea. P. VI. 
59. C. punctata (Gaud.); fertile spikes erect cylindrical with 
slightly exserted ped. particularly the lowest, bracts with sheaths, 
gl. ovate shortly awned, fr. ovate tumid obsoletely ribbed pellucidly 
punctate with a linear bidentate smooth beak, nut ovate-rhomboidal 
narrowed at both ends triangular rough.—H. b. 37. Kunze Riedg. 
6. R.251.—St. smooth, 1—2 feet high, slender. Spikes distant 
or the upper ones approximating ; peduncles usually slightly, the 
lowest often greatly exserted, rough; lowest spike frequently 
very distant. Gl. pale red with a broad green longitudinal 
dorsal band. Fr. pale. Nut brown. Gl. of barren spike blunt. 
—Marshy places near the sea. Banks of the Menai near Bangor. 
One mile west of Charlestown, Cornwall. H.and A. Guemsev. 
P. VI. 
60. C. distans (L.); fertile spikes remote erect oblong, upper 
ped. included, bracts with sheaths, gl. mucronate, fr. ovate trique- 
trous equally ribbed pellucidly punctate smooth, edges of the bifid 
narrow beak rough but inner edges of the notch serrulate, nut 
triquetrous roughish oblong-elliptical attenuated at both ends.— 
E. B. 1234, Schk. T. 68. H. b. 42. R. 253.—St. smooth, 
seldom exceeding a foot high, slender. Spikes distant, short ; 
lower ped. half exserted. Gl. brownish. Fr. greenish-brown. 
Nut yellowish. Barren spike cylindrical, clavate, with blunt 
glumes.—Marshy places especially near the sea. P. V. 
61. C. binervis (Sm.); fertile spikes remote the upper ones 
approximating cylindrical their ped. mostly mcluded the lower 
elongated with exserted ped., bracts with sheathing bases, gl. 
mucronate, fr. ovate triquetrous with 2 principal green sub- 
marginal ribs on the outer surface, beak broad bifid rough at the 
edges, nut obovate attenuated below roughish.—E. B. 1235. Schk. 
Rir. 160. H.b. 39. R. 255.—St. triangular, smooth, 1 foot 
high. Spikes often very distant; upper ped. often quite in- 
cluded, never much exserted, lower often greatly exserted. Gl. 
dark purple, with a greenish-yellow midrib. Fr. brown or deeply 
tinged with purple, 2 prominent ribs always green; nut brown. 
Barren spike with brown glumes.—Dry heaths. P. VI. VII. 
62. C. levigata (Sm.); fertile spikes remote cylindrical, ped. 
more or less exserted, bracts with sheathing bases, gl. acute, fr. 
ovate-attenuate striate, beak long deeply bifid with scabrous edges, 
nut subpyriform attenuated below triangular smooth.—E. B. 1387. 
Schk. Bbb. 116. and Sss. 162. H.b. 38. R.254.—St. smooth, 
2—3 feet high. Spikes distant, erect or drooping. Gl. often 
