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The Flora of Wiltshin 



rough, a little glaucous. Fertile spikes 3 or 4, the upper ones 

 generally terminated with barren flowers ; male ones mostly 2 or 3, 

 drooping with the top of the stem. Fruit oblong, lenticular, veined. 

 Nut roundish-obovate, with a short, slender beak. Glumes acute. 



13. C. vulgaris, (Fries.) common Carex. C. coespilosa, (Sm.) 

 Engl. Bot. t. 1507. C. Goodenovii (Gay). 



Locality. In pastures, meadows and marshes. P. Fl. May, June. 

 Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Frequently distributed throughout the county. 

 A variable species. Stem about 1 foot high, but in dry soils scarcely 

 6 inches high. Leaves slender, Spikes erect, male 1 to 2, fertile 3 

 to 4, subsessile, cylindrical. Fruit elliptic, plane, convex, with a 

 short entire beak. Nut roundish, very blunt. Glumes dark-brown 

 or black, often with a green midrib shorter than the fruit. 



14. C. pallescens, (Linn.) pale Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 2185. 



8M. Kk. 99, H. b. 44. 



Locality. In marshes and moist meadows. P. Fl. June. Area, 

 ■x- * * 4^ 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. Spye Park, but not general. Stem 1 

 foot or 18 inches high, acutely triangular. Leaves slightly downy, 

 rough on the edges. Fertile spikes 2 or 3, on long, slender peduncles ; 

 the barren one sessile, darker. Fruit ovate oblong, convex on both 

 sides, veined, blunt. Nut linear elliptic trigonous. The whole 

 plant is of a pale hue, but not glaucous, and may be readily recog- 

 nised by the pale-green colour of its obtuse spikes when in fruit. 



15. Q.pariicea, (Linn.) pinked-leaved Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 1505. 

 Schk. L. 1. 100, H. b. 33. 



Locality. In bogs and marshy meadows. P. Fl. June. Area, 

 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Not unfrequent in the Districts. Stem erect, 12 to 

 18 inches high, obtusely triangular. Leaves short, broad, glaucous, 

 rough on the edges. Fertile spikes about 2. Glumes ovate, acute, 

 shorter than the fruit, brown, with white edges and a green keel. 

 Fruit tumid, subglobose, with a short, terete, truncate beak. Nut 

 obovate, oblong, trigonous, with a cylindrical beak. 



16. C. strigosa, (Huds.) loose pendulous Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 

 994. Schk. N. 53. 



