CAREX. 
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Tribe IV. Caricem. 
10. Carex Linn.' 
i. Spike simple, solitary. Stigmas 2. — * Dicecious. 
1. C. dioica (L.) ; fern, spike ovate dense, glumes obtuse, fr. 
ascending ovate manj’-nerved angles rough near the summit, nut 
roundish-oval, st. and 1. smooth, root creeping. — E. B. 543. Schk. 
A. 1. H. a. 1. R. 522. — About (i in. high. Sometimes the male 
spike has a single fruit at its base. — -Spongy bogs. P. V. VI. 
2. C. Davalliana (Sm.); fr. defiexed ovate-lanceolate ribbed 
I angles rough near the summit, nut “ linear-oblong,” st. and mar- 
gins of the 1. rough, root fibrous. — E. B. 2123. Schk. A. 2. W. 2. 
H. a. 2. R. 523. — About (i in. high. — Lansdown near Bath, now 
lost by drainage. Several other stations have been given, but it 
is doubtful if they refer to this j)lant. P. VI. E. S.? I.? 
! ** Androgynous. 
3. C.pulicaris (L.); spike with the upper half barren, /r. re- 
mote at length defiexed oblong narrowed at both ends compressed, 
nut oblong-obovate, glumes deciduous. — E. B. 1051. Schk. A. 3. 
H. a. 3. R. 524. — St. slender, 6 — 12 in. or more in height, 
erect, smooth. L. slender, erect, smooth. Fr. dark brown. — 
Bogs. P. VI. 
ii. Spike simple, solitary. Stigmas 3. 
4. C. rupestris (AW.) ; spike with the upper half barren, /r. 
ohovate triquetrous with a very short beak adpressed scarcely 
longer than the persistent glumes, “ nut obovate acutely trique- 
trous.” — E. B. S. 2814. H.h.4. R. 531. — St. 3 — (5 in. high, 
acutely triangular', rough iqjwards. L. flat ending in a tortuous 
rough slender triangular point. Glumes fuscous. Fr. paler. 
Leighton’s fig. appears to have been taken from an immature 
fruit. — Lofty mountains. Glen Callater and Little Craigindal, 
Braemar. InclmadamiF, Sutherland. Rev. Churchill Babington. 
Glen Dole, Clova. Dr. Balfour. P. VII. S. 
5. C. paucifiora (Lightf.); spike with 1 or 2 terminal barren 
fioretSjfr. 2 — 4 lanceolate-subulate terete patent or refle.xed longer 
than the deciduous glumes, nut linear-oblong obtusely trigonous. 
* In the description of the Carices fruit must be understood to mean 
the nut or true capsule covered by the persistent bottleshaped perigone, 
I and it is to be examined when ripe. See plates in Leighton’s FI. of 
i Shropshire. The described is always taken from the fertile spike 
I unless it is otherwise stated. Schk. refers to the plates of Schkuhr’s 
I Riedgrdser ; H. to Hoppe’s Caricol. Germ, in Sturm Deutschl. Flora ; 
1 and R. to Reichenbach lo, FI. Germ. Cent. viii. 
