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THE SEDGE FAMILY. 



a. Tawny distant C. (C. fulva, Eng. Bot. t. 1295, and C. speirosta- 

 chya, Suppl. t. 2770), with short, pale-coloured spikelets, and a rather 

 long beak to the fruit. 



b. Starred distant C. (C. depauperata, Eng. Bot. t. 1098), with only 

 4 or 5 fruits to the spikelet, but each one larger, somewhat inflated, 

 with a very long beak. 



c. Two-nerved distant C. (C. binervis, Eng. Bot. t. 1235), with darker 

 spikelets and more angular fruits. 



d. Smooth distant C. (C. laevigata, Eng. Bot. t. 1387), like the last, 

 but the slender green spikelets often 1 to 1^ inches long, much like 

 those of the wood C, but erect, not drooping. 



36. Dotted Carex. 



Carex punctata, Good. (Fig. 1128.) 



Very much like the common seacoast 

 form of the distant C, of which it may 

 be a mere variety ; but the fruits appear 

 to be entirely without longitudinal ribs, 

 except the 3 angles, which are slightly 

 prominent. 



Indicated here and there in various 

 parts of the area of the distant C, and 

 has been found in two or three localities 

 on the west coast of England, and in 

 Ireland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 1128. 



37. Carnation Carex. Carex panicea, Linn. (Fig. 1129.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1505. Carnation-grass.) 



Stems tufted, but emitting creeping runners from the base, 1 to 1\ 

 feet high, with rather short, erect, flat leaves, more or less glaucous. 

 Spikelets usually 3, the terminal one male, the others female, distant, 

 erect, stalked, cylindrical, \ to 1 inch long, often loosely imbricated ; 

 the flowers, especially in the lowest one, at some distance from each 

 other. Bracts shortly leafy, with rather long sheaths. Glumes brown. 

 Styles 3-cleft. Fruits ovoid, without ribs except the 3 angles, obtuse, 

 with a very short beak or point, like those of the glaucous C, from 

 which plant this species differs chiefly in the more erect, loose female 

 spikelets, and in the male spikelet always solitary. 



