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CVI. CYPERACEA;. 
[ Carex. 
43. C. vagindta Tausch ( short brown-spiked C .) ; barren 
spikelet solitary, fertile ones 1 — 3 subcylindrical erect lax- 
flowered distant stalked, the stalks longer than the elongated 
loose sheaths, bracteas subfoliaceous, fruit smooth obsoletely 
nerved elliptic-lanceolate triangular with an acuminate ob- 
liquely bifid recurved beak longer than the ovate glume. C. 
phseostachya Srn. : E.B. S. t. 2731. C. salina Don: Herb. 
Brit. n. 216. C. Mielichoferi Sm. (not Schk .) : E. B. t. 2293. 
C. Scotica Spreng. C. panicea /3. Wahl. 
Highland mountains. Craig Cailleach and Meal-cuachlar, near 
Killin ; Cairngorm and Ben Mac Dhuie, Aberdeenshire ; about the 
falls at the head of Glen Fiadh, and in the ravines of the White 
Water, Clova. g. 7. — “Differs from C. panicea in its broader 
leaves, shorter bracts with inflated sheaths, green triangular (not 
inflated) fruit with an emarginate beak and obtuse ferruginous 
glumes:” M'Laren. The name given by Tausch in 1821, being the 
oldest, we adopt it. Mr. Bentham follows Wahlenberg in uniting it 
to the following species. 
If Beak of fruit entire. 
44. C. panicea L. (pink-leaved C .) ; barren spikelet solitary, 
fertile ones about 2 subcylindrical lax-flowered distant stalked, 
the stalks longer than the close elongated sheaths, bracteas leafy, 
fruit subglobose somewhat inflated obtuse glabrous with a short 
terete beak. E. B. t. 1505. 
Marshy places and bogs, common, g. 6. — Stems 1 — 1 4^ ft. high. 
Leaves rather broad, glaucous, rough at the edges, much resembling, 
as Sir J. E. Smith observes, the foliage of C. ylauca ; but the cha- 
racters of the two are widely different. Glumes dark brown, the keel 
green. Fruit greenish-brown. 
45. C. pallescens L. (pale C .) ; barren spikelet 1 sessile, fer- 
tile spikelets stalked oblong-cylindrical approximate scarcely 
pendulous much longer than the very short sheaths, bracteas 
foliaceous, fruit obovate-elliptical tumid striate obtuse gla- 
brous. E. B. t. 2185. 
Marshy places, frequent, g. 6. — A foot or more high. Leaves 
slightly downy. Spikes obtuse, pale green. Fruit very obtuse, with- 
out a beak. Acliene narrow-elliptical, tapering at both ends. 
** Fertile spikelets abbreviated, stalked, drooping. 
f Beak of fruit entire. 
46. C. capilldris L. (dwarf capillary C .) ; fertile spikelets 
few-flowered lax drooping, the stalks twice as long as and 
included within a common sheath, fruit oblong-obovate with a 
short beak rather longer than the membranous ovate obtuse 
deciduous glume. E. B. t 2069.. 
