932 



THE SEDGE FAMILY. 



with narrow leaves, sometimes as long 

 as the stem, sometimes much shorter. 

 Terminal male spikelet ^ to near 1 inch 

 long. Females 1 or 2, on slender stalks, 

 drooping, rather loose, 6 to 8 lines long. 

 Bracts leafy, without sheaths, or with 

 a short, scarious one. Glumes rather 

 dark-brown, ovate, the upper ones 

 pointed. Styles 3-cleft. Fruits rather 

 large, roundish, compressed, scarcely 

 pointed, and not distinctly beaked. 



In bogs and mountain marshes, in 

 northern and Arctic Europe, Russian 

 Asia, and North America, and in the 

 higher ranges of central Europe. In 

 Britain, chiefly in Scotland, Ireland, and 

 northern England. FL summer. The 

 C. rariflora (Eng. Bot. t. 2516) is a high 

 northern or Arctic variety, with the 

 glumes almost black, and more obtuse, 



and only 5 or 6 fruits in each spikelet. It occurs, but rarely, in the 



Scotch Highlands. 



Fig. 1131. 



40. Glaucous Carex. Carex glauca, Scop. (Fig. 1132.) 



{C. recurva, Eng. Bot. t. 1506, C. Miclieliana, t. 2236, and C. sticto- 



carpa, Suppl. t. 2772.) 



The creeping rootstock, glaucous foli- 

 age, and most of the characters, are those 

 of the carnation C, but there are gene- 

 rally 2 or 3 male spikelets, the female 

 ones are rather more compact, on longer 

 stalks, and more or less drooping when 

 ripe, except in very dry situations, and 

 the sheaths of the leafy bracts are usually 

 shorter. Stems, in dry situations, 6 or 

 8 inches high, with short, curved leaves ; 

 in rich meadows, 1 to 1^ feet, with 

 erect leaves as long as the stems. Fe- 

 male spikelets 2 or 3, varying from £ to 

 above 1 inch in length. Glumes dark- 

 brown. Styles 3-cleft. Fruits ovoid, 

 not ribbed except the 3 obtuse angles, 

 and without any beak. 



In meadows and marshes, in central 

 Fig. 1132. ^ind southern Europe, extending east- 



ward to the Caucasus, and northward far into Scandinavia, and in 



