CYPERACEJE. 



913 



Star-headed Carex. 

 (Fie 



Carex stellulata, Gooclen. 

 1100.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 806.) 



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 flower- 

 ing 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 spikelet, and a small portion 

 of the base of the two others. Styles 

 2-cleft. Fruit about 2 lines long, the 

 edges slightly rough. 



In marshy places, especially in moun- 

 tain districts, in Europe and Russian 

 Asia, from Spain and Italy to the Arctic 

 regions, and in North America. Frequent in Britain 

 early summer. 



FL 



spring or 



9. Whitish Carex. Carex eanescens, Linn. (Fig. 1101.) 



(O. carta, Eng. Bot. t 



Stems tufted, afoot 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 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. 



In bogs and marshy places, in north- 

 ern 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 Fig. 1101. 



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