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Female spikelets about 2 inches, on slender stalks. Glumes and fruits 

 spreading, with long points 43. Cyperus-lilce C. 



Female spikelets 4 to 6 inches. Stalks almost concealed in the sheaths. 

 Fruits small, scarcely beaked 44. Pendulous C. 



Fruits obtuse. Spikelets dark brown. Leaves glaucous 40. Glaucous C. 



Fruits beaked or pointed. Spikelets brown-green. Stems tall, with 

 long leaves 50 



Fruits much flattened, pointed 47. Marsh C. 



Fruits inflated, abruptly contracted into a long beak . . 45. Bottle C. 



Fruits inflated, tapering into a short beak 46. Bladder C. 



1. Dioecious Carex. Car ex dioica, Linn. (Fig. 1093.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 543, and C. Davalliana, t. 2123.) 



A slender dioecious plant, seldom 

 above 6 or 8 inches high, with a creep- 

 ing rootstock ; the leaves very narrow* 

 much shorter than the stem, the radical 

 ones loosely tufted. Spikelets brown, 

 solitary on each stem ; those of the male 

 plant linear, about 6 lines long ; the fe- 

 males much shorter, and ovoid. Fruits 

 longer than the glumes, contracted into 

 a point, and more or less spreading when 

 ripe. Styles 2-cleft. 



In spongy bogs, in northern and Arctic 

 Europe, Asia, and America, and in the 

 mountain ranges of central Europe. 

 Common in Scotland, northern Eng- 

 land and Ireland, but very rare in the 

 south. Fl. early summer. 



Fig. 1093. 



2. Flea Carex. Carex puliearis, Linn. (Fig. 1091.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1051.) 



A small tufted species, not creeping, 3 to 6 inches high, the leaves 

 narrow, almost subulate, shorter than the stem. Spikelet solitary and 

 terminal, about 9 lines long, male in the upper half, 3 to 7 of the lower 

 flowers female. Style 2-cleft. Fruit ovate, sessile, and erect when 



