CYPERACEJB. 



915 



remote-flowered forms of the prickly 

 C. it differs in the longer spikelets, the 

 much more leafy lower bract, and the 

 fruit flatter, with very acute edges. 



Generally distributed over Europe 

 and Russian Asia, except the extreme 

 north, but not very common. Yery local 

 in England and Ireland, and not known 

 in Scotland. Fl. early summer. 



Fig. 1103. 



12. Panicled Carex. 



Carex paniculata, Linn. (Eig. 1104.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1064.) 



A stout species, forming large tufts ; 

 the stems attaining from 1 to 3 or even 

 4 feet in height, and more or less trian- 

 gular, but never so much so as in the 

 fox C. ; the leaves in luxuriant specimens 

 longer than the stem, and 3 or 4 lines 

 broad, in poorer specimens much shorter 

 and narrower. Spikelets numerous, 

 brown, crowded into a compound spike 

 or panicle, sometimes 4 or 5 inches long, 

 with the lower branches spreading and 

 an inch long, sometimes contracted into 

 a spike like that of the fox C, but more 

 slender. The individual spikelets are 

 sessile, mostly with a few male flowers 

 at the top, the outer bracts scarious at 

 the edges, the lowest sometimes with 

 short, fine points. Styles 2-cleft. Emits 

 ovate, beaked, marked on the inner face 

 with several longitudinal ribs or veins. 



Fig. 1104. 



