CYPERACE7E. 



919 



17. Curved Carex. Carex incurva, Liglitf. (Fig. 1109.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 927.) 



Eootstock creeping ; the stems not 

 above 2 or three inches high, often 

 curved as well as the rush-like leaves, 

 which are usually about the same length. 

 Spikelets 3 or 4, closely packed into a 

 broadly ovoid, brown head, each with a 

 few male flowers at the top. Styles 

 2-cleft. Fruits broad, rather inflated, 

 tapering into a short beak projecting 

 beyond the glumes. 



A northern, chiefly Arctic species, in 

 Europe and Russian Asia, and perhaps 

 also in the Alps of central Europe and 

 Asia, but there generally replaced by a 

 closely allied species with a 3-cleft style. 

 In Britain, only on the sandy sea-shores 

 of northern Scotland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 1109. 



18. Russet Carex. Carex saxatilis, Linn. (Fig. 1110.) 

 (C.pulla, Eng. Bot. t. 2045, and C. Grahami, Suppl. t. 2923.) 



Eootstock creeping; the scaly run- 

 ners ending in tufts of leaves. Stems 

 usually shortly decumbent at the base, 

 8 inches to a foot high or rather more, 

 and leafy. Spikelets about 3 or 4, dis- 

 tant from each other ; the terminal one 

 or two cylindrical and small ; the lower 

 3, 2, or 1 female, ovoid, of a dark brown, 

 about 6 or 8 lines long ; the lowest on a 

 slender stalk, with a leafy bract at its 

 base. Style 2-cleft. Fruit ovoid, in- 

 flated, longer than the glume, with a 

 very short point or beak. 



Limited to the Arctic and high north- 

 ern regions of Europe. In Britain, only 

 in the higher Scotch mountains. Fl. 

 summer. Fig. 1110. 



