CYPERACEiE. 



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points ; the female spikelets are shorter, 

 with much darker glumes ; and the 

 fruits are twice as long, with acute 

 angles, and are rather hairy than downy. 

 In pastures and heaths, with the ver- 

 nal C, in central and southern Europe 

 and western Asia, and extending north- 

 ward into Scandinavia. In Britain, said 

 to have been found in Sussex, and near 

 Chepstow, in Monmouthshire. Fl. 

 spring. 



Fig. 1119. 



28. Pill-headed Carex. Carex pilulifera, Linn. (Fig. 1120.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 885.) 



Stems 6 inches to a foot high, form- 

 ing broad and sometimes loose tufts, but 

 scarcely creeping at the base. Leaves 

 shorter than the stem, weak and flexi- 

 ble. Eemale spikelets 2 or 3, short and 

 compact, close under the terminal male 

 one. Bracts leafy, usually short, with- 

 out sheaths. Glumes brown, more or less 

 pointed. Styles 3-cleft. Fruits small, 

 obovoid or nearly globular, scarcely 

 beaked, covered with a minute down. 



In hilly pastures, and moors, generally 



distributed over Europe, and the same, 



or a closely allied species, across Hussian 



Asia and in North America. Common 



in Britain. Fl. early summer. 



* Fig. 1120. 



29. Downy Carex. 



Carex tomentosa, Linn. (Fig. 1121.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 2046.) 



Hootstock creeping. Stems erect, slender, a foot high or more. 

 Leaves narrow, erect, much shorter than the stem. Terminal male 



