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THE SEDGE FAMILY. 



not very general. Fl. early summer. An alpine variety, with smaller 

 spikelets, has been distinguished under the names of C. vitilis or C. 

 Fersoonii. 



10. Remote Carex. Carex remota, Linn. (Fig. 1102.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 832.) 



Distinguished from all other British 

 species, with mixed spikelets male at the 

 base, by the small pale spikelets at con- 

 siderable distances from each other, the 

 outer bracts of the 3 or 4 lower ones al- 

 ways very long and leaf-like. Stems 

 slender, a foot high or more. Spikelets 

 smaller than in the whitish C. Fruits 

 tapering into a point, but not so long as 

 in the elongated C. The terminal spikelet 

 has male flowers in the lower half, the 

 others only a few at the base, and the 

 lowest is often entirely female. 



In woods, and moist, shady places, 

 generally dispersed over Europe and 

 central and Russian Asia, except the ex- 

 treme north. Frequent in England and 

 -p. 1102 Ireland, less so in Scotland. FL early 



11. Axillary Carex. Carex axillaris, Gooden. (Fig. 1103.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 993, and C. Bosnninghauseniana, Suppl. t. 2910.) 



A rather tall species, with leafy stems often 2 feet high, allied on the 

 one hand to the remote C, but the spikelets are not so distant, and the 

 lowest is either branched, or there are 2 or 3 together, either sessile or 

 very shortly stalked, and only one or two of the lower bracts are leaf- 

 like. On the other hand, the clustered lower spikelets show an ap- 

 proach to the panicle C, and, as in that species, there are a few male 

 flowers at the top of the terminal spikelets ; but the inflorescence is 

 much more slender, the spikelets much more distant, and there are 

 usually a few male flowers at the base of most of them. From the 



