CABEX. 
373 
leak 0, md linear-eJUptic trigonous— 1^. B. 2185. Schk. Kk. 99. 
U. b. 44.— St. slender, triquetrous, rough above, 1— 15 foot 
hiffh. Spikes blunt, pule green ; tlie barren one sessile, darker. 
— -Mai-shy places. P. VI. E- S. I. 
35. C. pan'tcea (L.) ; fcdile spikes erect remote subcylindrical 
on asserted stalks icith distant f ., bracts leaflike sheathing, gl. 
rather acute, fr. c vate-suhylohose injlated veinless with a short 
terete truncatc'beak, nut obovate-oblong ti-igonous with a cylin- 
drical beak.— £. 1505. Schk. LI. 100. JI. b. 33.— St. 1—2 ft. 
high, erect, smooth. Fertile splices about 2. Gl. oblong, more 
or less acute, dark brown with a green keel and membranous 
pale margins. Lowermost bract about as long as its spike, the 
rest shorter, sheaths close. — Marshy places. P. VI. E. S. I. 
36. C. vagimita (Tausch !) ; fertile spikes erect remote on ex- 
serted stalks with distant fl., bracts sheathing scarcely leaflike, 
gl. bluntish, //•. ovate triquetrous glabrous veinless with a short 
terete smooth very obliquely truncate and emarginate beak, nut 
elliptic triangulai- "icith a beak slightly thicketied upwards."— 
H. b. 17. Kunzc Riedq. 15. C. phaostachya Sm., E. B. S. 2731. 
C. Meilichoferi Sm., E. B. 2293.— St. 5—6 in. high, smooth. 
Fertile spilies 1 — 2. Glumes bluntish. Bracts with funnelshaped 
sheaths. — Highland moimtains. P. VII. S. 
37. C. limdsa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 upon verj' long stalks 
drooping ovate densely-Jloivered " with occasionally a few male 
fl. at their top," bracts auiicled sUnder sti-ongly keeled, gl. ovate 
mucronate, fr. roundish-obovate compiressed strongly ribbed with 
a very short entire beak, nut obovate bluntly tiigouous with a 
beak, /. narrow linear channeled rough at the edqes thi-oughout. 
—E. B. 2043. Schk. X. 78. B. 238. BooU's 'Carejc, t. 216.— 
Creeping. St. 1 ft. high. L. and bracts veiy flender. Gl. pur- 
ple, with a green keel, about as long as the pale fr. which is 
broadesft above the middle. TVut pale. — Spongy bogs. P. VI. 
E. S. I. 
38. C. iiriff 'ua (Hoppe) ; feHile spikes 2 or 3 drooping upon 
long stalks oblong densely-flowered ^c^th occasionally a few 
malefl. at their base, bracts auiicled leaflike rather broad nearly 
flat, gl. ovate-lanceolate attenuate acute, fr. roundish-ovate com- 
pressed faintly ribbed with a very short entire beak, nut elliptic 
triangular with a bealj, I. linear flat smooth at the edges except 
near the tip.— B. S. 2895. R. 238. C. Magellanica Lam., 
Boott's Carex, t. 219. — Creeping. St. a foot or more in height. 
L. and bracts 2 or -3 times as broad as in the preceding. Gl. 
wholly purple, usually longer than the pale fr. which is broadest 
below the middle. Nut pale. — Spongy bogs. Muckle Moss, 
Northunib. TeiTegles, Dumfries. JBen Mime neai' Loch Lo- 
mond. P. \1. E. S. 
