CAREX. 
471 
other ribs faint. beak broad bifid rough Sbt the edges,nut obovoid 
roughish.— ^. £. 1235. Schk. Err. 160. //. b. 39. E. 255.— St. 
triangular, smooth, a foot high. Spikes often very distant ; 
upper stalks often quite included, never much exserted, lower 
often greatly exserted. Gl. dark purple; midrib greenish 
yellow. Fr. brown or deeply tinged with purple, 2 prominent 
ribs always green ; nut brown. Male spike with blunt glumes. 
—Heaths and moors. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
63. C. helddes (Lk.) ; fertile spikes remote cylindrical, stalks 
more or less exserted, bracts sheathing, gl. acute, /r. ovoid atte- 
nvate striate, beak long deeply bifid with rough edges, nut sub- 
pyriform narrowed below triangular smooth. — C. laevigata 
(S,m.).—E.£.l381. ^ScM. Bbb. 116 & Sss. 162. H.h.SS. B. 
254.— St. smooth, 2 — 3 feet high. Spikes distant, erect or droop- 
ing. Gl. often acute on the male spike, always so on the others, 
purple with a paler dorsal longitudinal band. Rarely 2 male 
spikes. Fr. green ; nut yellowi.sh. L. broad. — /3. gracilis {At. 
Benn.) ; 1. much narrower, fertile spikes short, fr. patent 
smaller but more swollen. — Marshes and wet thickets, rather 
rare. P. VI. E. S. I. 
64. C. depauperdta (Curt, ex With.) ; fertile spikes erect remote 
3- or 4.-JI., stalks exserted, bracts sheathing leaflike, gl. acute,/r. 
large nearly globose, beak long bifid with rough edges, nut 
elliptic trigonous with bluntish angles. — E. B. 1098. Schk. M. 
50. — St. 1 — 2 feet high, trigonous, smooth. Gl. of the male 
spike blunt. Fr. very large and few with many ribs. Spikes 
very distant.^ — Dry woods, very rare. P. VI. E. 
ttt Beak of fr. glabrous, terete or compressed. Male spike 
1 (rarely more). Stigmas 3. 
65. C.sylvat'ica (Huds.) : fertile spikes about4distant slightly 
drooping linear with long half -exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 
sheathing,/r. elliptic trigonous obscurely veined narrowed into a 
long cloven smooth beak, nut obovoid-elliptic-triangular, 1. nar- 
rower than in the preceding. — E. B. 995. Schk. LI. 101. H. b. 
55. R. 242. — St. about 2 feet high, smooth, its top and the fr.- 
beak rarely a little rough. Sheaths scarcely half equalling the 
peduncles. Gl. ovate, acute, diaphanous with a green keel. — 
Damp woods. P. V. E. S. I. 
66. C. Pseudo-cyperus (L.) ; fertile spikes about 5 drooping 
cylindrical densely flowered stalked near together, bracts leaflike 
scarcely sheathing, gl. setaceous rough dilated at the base,/r. 
ovoid-lanceolate ribbed narrowed into a deeply bifid beak, nut 
