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CVI. CYPERACEjE. 
[ Carexi 
Herbarium there are specimens given him in 1809 by Prof. Beattie 
under the name of C. dioica, (the sterile from “ Rubislaw, &c.,” 
the fertile from “ Garvock,”) which have apparently no creeping 
rhizomes, and the fruit much acuminate and recurved : but the stems 
are very slightly scabrous, and scarcely more angled than is usual in 
C. dioica. 
** Androgynous. ( Stamens and pistil in the same spikelet . ) 
3. C. pulicdris L. (Flea C.) ; spikelet simple, upper half with 
barren flowers, fruit lax oblong-lanceolate acuminate reflexed. 
E. B. t. 1051. 
Bogs, frequent. If.. 5,6 . — Stems 3 — 12 inches high, smooth. 
Leaves setaceous or filiform. Fruit dark brown, shining, smooth. 
ii. Spikelet solitary, terminal. Stigmas 3. 
4. C. rupestris All. (Rock C .) ; spikelet linear with a few 
fertile lax flowers at the base, fruit obovate triquetrous rostrate 
adpressed with an entire orifice scarcely longer than the obtuse 
or cuspidate persistent glume. E. B. S. t. 2814. C. petrsea 
Wahl. C. attenuata Br. 
Shelves of rocks ; top of Glen Callader, corrie of Loch Ceannor 
(? Ceann-mor), Little Craigendal, Aberdeenshire ; Glen Dole, Clova; 
Inchnadamff, Sutherland ; Ben Lawers. 7. — Rhizome creeping. 
Stem 3 — 8 inches high, rough upwards. Leaves flat, ending in a long, 
attenuate, tortuous, rough, triangular point. 
5. C. paucflura Lightf. (few-flowered C .) ; spike simple of 
few flowers the uppermost barren, fruit lax lanceolato-subulate 
terete patent or reflexed longer than the deciduous glume. E. 
B. t. 2041. C. leucoglochin Ehrh. 
Not unfrequent on the Highland mountains, in moory places. 
Lowther hills near Dalvene pass, and meadow above Drumlanrig 
Castle, Dumfries-shire. Crag Lake, Northumberland; between 
Pickering and Whitby, Yorkshire. 2f . 6, 7. — Rhizome creeping. 
Fruit pale-yellowish, striate. 
iii. Spikelets androgynous in a compound,spike. Stigmas 2. 
* Spikelets capitate, barren at the end. Brncteas not foliaceous. 
6. C. incurva Lightf. (curved C .) ; spikelets barren at their 
extremity collected into a globular head, bracteas membranous 
shorter than the spikelets, fruit broadly ovate acuminate nearly 
entire at the point, stem obtusely angular, leaves channelled. 
E. B. t. 927. C. juncifolia All. 
Sandy sea-shores in the north of Scotland. H-. 6 . — Rhizome 
extensively creeping. Stems 2 — 4 inches high, curved. Head of 
spikelets large. 
