SEDGE FAMILY 



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sub-erect, cylindric, £ — i in. long, long-stalked ; glumes dark brown ; 

 styles 3-cleft ; fruit ovoid, triangular, not beaked. — Damp places; 

 common. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



37. C. magelldnica. — A slender, creeping species; stems a foot 

 or more high, nearly smooth ; leaves linear, flat, smooth-edged, 

 not glaucous ; pistillate spikelets 2 or 3, long-stalked, drooping ; 

 bracts leafy, broad, flat ; glumes purple, lanceolate, with long points; 

 fruit roundish, faintly 

 ribbed, beaked. — 

 Spongy bogs in the 

 north ; rare. — Fl. June. 

 Perennial. 



38. C. limosa (Mud 

 Sedge). — A closely 

 allied, slender, creeping 

 species ; stems 3 — 12 

 in. high, rough ; leaves 

 narrow, glaucous, chan- 

 nelled ; st'aminate spikelet 

 \ — 1 in. long; pistillate 

 spikelets 1 or 2, on 

 slender stalks, drooping, 

 6—8 lines long; bracts 

 leafy ; glumes rather dark** 

 brown with green mid- 

 rib, ovate, upper ones 

 pointed ; styles 3-cleft > 

 fruit rather large, round- 

 ish, compressed, not 

 beaked. — Spongy bogs ; 

 rare. — Fl. June. Peren- 

 nial. 



39. C. r arifldra 

 (Loose-flowered Alpine 

 Sedge). — A creeping 

 plant ; stems 6 — 12 in. high, wiry, smooth ; leaves narrow, erect, 

 rough-edged ; staminate spikelet short, sub-erect ; pistillate spikelets 

 2 or 3, drooping, \ in. long, on slender stalks of the same length, 

 6 — 8-flowered ; bracts with short sheaths ; glumes brown, shining, 

 obtuse, with a minute point ; fruit obovoid, faintly veined, shortly 

 beaked. — Elevated bogs in Scottish Highlands.— Fl. June — August. 

 Perennial. 



40. C. digitdta (Fingered Sedge). — Densely tufted; stems slender, 

 curved, 6 — 10 in. high, sheathed at the base, leafless; leaves 



Carex flacca {Glaucous Sedge). 



