492 THE SEDGE FAMILY. [Carex. 
point. Styles 2-cleft. Fruits flat, with a scarious wing or border, C. 
ovalis, Good. | 
In moist meadows, and pastures, over the whole of Europe and tem- 
perate Asia, found also in the Rocky Mountains of North America. 
Generally diffused over Britain. Fl. summer, rather early. 
6. C. lagopina, Wahlenb. (fig. 1116). Hare’s foot C.—Very near 
C. leporina, but a smaller plant, seldom above 8 or 9 inches high, form- 
ing rather dense tufts, with the leaves about half the height of the 
stems. Spikelets usually 3 or 4, very close together, of the shape 
of those of C. leporina, but rather smaller, and the fruits, though flat, 
are not winged. | 
An Alpine plant, not unfrequent in northern Europe, Asia, and 
America, at high latitudes, and in the higher mountain ranges of — 
central and southern Europe. In Britain, only on the loftiest moun- 
tains of Aberdeen, and there extremely rare. /l. summer. 
7. C. elongata, Linn. (fig. 1117). Llongated C.—When first flower- 
ing this plant has the appearance of tall, luxuriant specimens of C. 
canescens, often attaining 2 feet, but the spikelets are browner, and the 
ripe fruit attains near 2 lines, tapers into a point, and spreads more or 
less from the axis, projecting far beyond the glumes. The spikelets 
are longer, narrower, and not near so close as in C. leporina, and the 
fruits are not at all winged. 
In marshes, in central and northern Europe, and northern Asia, from 
northern Spain and Italy almost to the Arctic circle, and in North- 
West America. Rare in Britain, although it has been found in several 
counties of England, in the south of Scotland, and in Antrim in Ireland, 
Fl. early summer. 
8. C. echinata, Murr. (fig. 1118). Star-headed C_—A tufted species, 
rarely above 6 or 8 inches high, with the leaves mostly shorter than 
the stem. Spikelets 3 or 4, at some distance from each other (except 
sometimes the 2 uppermost), oval-oblong, and about 3 lines long when 
they first come out; but as the flowering advances, the long-beaked 
fruits spread in every direction, giving the spikelets a nearly globular 
form. The male flowers occupy the lower half of the terminal spike- 
let, and a small portion of the base of the two others. Styles 2- 
cleft. Fruits about 2 lines long, and edges slightly rough. C. stellulata, 
Gooden. 
In marshy places, especially in mountain districts, in Europe and 
Russian Asia, from Spain and Italy to the Arctic regions, and in North 
America. Frequent in Britain. Fl. spring or early summer. 
9. C. canescens, Linn. (fig. 1119). Whitish C.—Stems tufted, a 
foot high or rather more, with rather long leaves. Spikelets 4 to 6, at 
some distance from each other, or the uppermost closer, 3 or 4 lines 
long, of a pale green. Fruits not longer than the glumes, rounded at 
the top, with a small point, not tapering into a beak as in the last three 
species. Styles 2-cleft. Male flowers generally very few, at the base 
of most of the spikelets. C. curta, Good. 
In bogs and marshy places, in northern and Arctic Europe and Asia, 
and in the mountains of central and southern Europe to the Caucasus, 
and in North America. Spread over many parts of Britain, and 
abundant in some bogs, but not very general. FI. carly summer, An 
alpine variety, with smaller spikelets, has been distinguished under 
