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THE SEDGE FAMILY. 



The intermediate C. (C. intermedia, 

 Eng. Bot. t. 2042, C. disticha, Bab. 

 Man.) appears to be merely an inland 

 variety, not uncommon in marshy ground 

 and wet meadows, in Europe and Rus- 

 sian Asia, and occurring in various parts 

 of England, Ireland, and southern Scot- 

 land. It is usually taller and more 

 slender and leafy, and the fruits are 

 generally, but not always, longer and 

 less distinctly winged. 



Fig. 1107. 



16. Divided Carex. Carex divisa, Huds. (Fig. 1108.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1096.) 



Roots tock creeping, hard, and almost 

 woody ; the stems usually short, but al- 

 ways more slender than in the sand C. 

 Spikelets few and short, crowded into an 

 ovoid or oblong spike or head, seldom 

 above half an inch long, all, especially 

 the upper ones, with several male flowers 

 at the top. Styles 2-cleft. Fruits scarce- 

 ly flattened, not winged, varying much 

 in the length of their beak. 



Chiefly a seacoast plant, but found 

 occasionally inland, in marshes and 

 swamps, in southern Europe, extending 

 eastward to the Caucasus and Himalaya, 

 and up the western coasts to the British 

 Channel. In Britain, frequent on some 

 of the eastern and southern coasts of 



and Ireland, but scarcely extending to the north of England. 



summer. 



Fig. 1108. 



England 

 Fl. early 



