CAREX. 
463 
a foot high. L. slender, not keeled. Bracts without sheaths. 
Spikes near together, short. Gl. blunt, shorter than fr.. 
purple ; keel slender, pale green. Fr. greenish or with a 
purple tinge. Nut rather broader than long.— [a slender ca>spitose 
form with narrow convolute I. is var. juncella (Fr. as C. vulgaris var.).] — 
Marshes. P. V. VI. E.S.I. 
[C. Gibsoiii (Bab.) ; fr. lanceolate, acute, nut broadly obovoid. 
— A. Ji. H. si. t. 5. — St. 6 — 8 in. high. Perianth nearly twice 
,t.-< long as the nut, gradually narrowed from below the middle 
to the top. Perhaps a monstrosity of C. vulgaris. — Hebden 
Bridge, Yorkshire ! Not recently found. P. VI.] E. 
32. C. trincr'cis (Degl. ex Lois.); spikes erect, maU 2 — 4 (rarely 1), fertile 2—5 
.v'ii//-( stout often male at the top sessile, bracts sheathing with brown auricles, 
exceeding the spikes, fr. ellipsoid-oblong compressed usually strongly 3 — 5-veined 
with very short beak, nut narrowing to the beak, st. trigonous strongly ribbed 
fmooth. — Kunze Fdedgr. t. 1.— Stoloniferous. Rootstock stout. St. 5—15 in. 
iM-spitose. L. faintly keeled often exceeding the spikes. Bracts broadening into 
strongly-ribbed auricled sheaths. Spikes near together very stout. Gl. bluntish 
narrower than in sp. 31 shorter than or equalling the fr., keel broail greenish- 
white. Fr. brownish-green, nut longer than broad. — A plant from Ormesby, 
Xorf., 1869, Mr H. G. Glasspoole, has been referred to this sp. P. VI. E. 
tt Nut with 3 angles. Stigmas 3, rarely 2. 
1 Fruit glabrous. Terminal spike male at its base. 
33. C. alpina (" Sw. in" Liljeb.); spikes 1 — 4 roundish or 
oblong contiguous nearly sessile, fr. obovoid veinless rough 
above with a short notched beak, gl. acutish falling short of 
fr., nut obovoid triquetrous blunt with a short cylindrical 
beak, bract scarcely overtopping the spikes, st. triangular 
rough towards the top.— 5. t. 356. C. Vahlii E. B. S. 2666. 
S<-hk. Gg. 94 & Ppp. 154. E. 235. 1 C. Halleri Gunn.— St. 
6 — 12 in. high, erect. Gi. brown or black. — Glen Callater and 
Glen Fiagh, Clova. Glen Lyon. P. VII. E. 
34. C. polycfama (Schk.) ; spikes 3 — 4 oblong sessile con- 
tiguous, the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, fr. oval 
blunt compressed (ultimately trigonous) bidentate roughish 
above veined, gl. cuspidate lower exceeding fr., nut obovoid 
trigonous blunt apiculate, lower bract leafiike. — E. B. S. 2885. 
^.b. 11. Schk.X.&Gg.lQ. R.2Zb. 5.438. C.Bu.rbaumii 
(Wahl.), C. fusca (Bailey not All.).— St. 1—2- feet high, 
triquetrous, rough. Sheaths of the I. connected by netlike 
filaments. Gl. nearly black, with a green keel prolonged into 
a cuspidate point. Fr. glaucous green. — Arisaig, W. Inverness. 
Mr W. F. Miller. Harbour Island near Toom Bridge, Lough 
Neagh. P. VL S. L 
