CAEEX. 
365 
many-veined angles rough near the top, nut roundish oval, 
terete st. and 1. roughish, stoboliferous. — £. B. 543. Schk. A. 1. 
S. a. 1. R. 194. — About 6 in. high. Sometimes the male spike 
.has fruits at its base. — Spongj' bogs. P. V. Y\. E. S. I. 
2. C. Davallidna (Sm.); fr. deflexed ovate-lanceolate angles 
rough near the top, nut " linear-oblong," st. and mai-gins of the 
1. rough, csespitose. — E. B. 2123. B. 194. — About 6 in. high. — 
' Lansdown near Bath : now lost by drainage, P. VI. E. 
** Spike male at the tc^. Stigtnas2. 
8. C. ptdicdris (L.) ; half of spike male,//", remote at length 
deflexed oblong-lanceolate compressed, nut oblong- obovate plane- 
convex.— i'. B. 1051. Schk. A. 3. H. a. 3. R. 195.— St. 
slender, 6 — 12 in. or more in height, erect, smooth. L. slender, 
erect. Glumes deciduous. Fr. dark brown. — Bogs. P. Yl. 
E. S. I. 
*** Spike male at the top. Stigmas '6. 
4. C. rupes'tris (All.) ; half of spike male, //•. obovate tri- 
Sonous with a very short beak adpressed scarcely longer than 
le persistent gl., "nut obovate acutely tiiquetrous."— B. S. 
2814. H. b. 4. R. 198.— Stoboliferous. St. 3—6 in. high, 
triquetrous, rough upwards. L. flat, ending in a wavy rough 
slender triangular /)08w<. Gl. fuscous. Fr. paler. — Lofty moun- 
tains. P. vn. s. 
5. C. pai(c{fl6ra (Lightf ) ; 1 — 3 terminal Jl. male, fr. 2 — 4 
lanceolate-subulate terete patent or reflexed longer than the 
deciduous gl., nut linear-oblong trigonous. — E. B. 2041. Schk. 
A. 4. IT. h. 1. R. 196. — Stoboliferous. St. usually about 5 
inches high, slender. L. 2 or 3, much shorter than the stem. 
Fr. pale yellow.— Bogs in the North. P. YI. VII. E. S. 
ii. Homostachyce. Spikelets in a compound continuous or 
interrupted spike, male at one or both ends or nearly imisexual. 
Nut plane-convex or compressed. Stigmas 2. (Sp. 6 — 25.) 
t Spikelets nearly unisexual. Stobole far-creeping. 
6. C. dis'ticha (Huds.); spikelets in an oblong interrupted 
spike upper and lower ones fertile intennediate mostly male,fr. 
ovate-lanceolate veined narroxvly margined bifid with seiTate 
edges above, nut oval, gl. shorter than the fr. acute its mid- 
rib not reaching the top, st. with rough angles. — C. intermedia 
always taken from the fertile spike imless it is otherwise stated. Schk. 
refers to the plates of Scfihehr's Riedgrdser ■ H. to Hofpe's Caricol. 
Germ, in Sturm DeutscM. Flora ; and R. to Reichenhach Ic. Fl. Germ. 
Cent. viii. See also for excellent Monographs Andersson's PL Scand., 
and Lang in Linncsa^ sxiv. 481. 
