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TRIANDRIA. M0N0GYNIA. Carex. 
Scorched Alpine Carex. Mountains of Clova, and Ben Lawers. Mr. G. 
Don. P. July. Hook. E.) 
41. C. atrata. Sheaths hardly any; all the spikes with barren and 
fertile florets; upper spikes on fruit-stalks, when in fruit, pen¬ 
dent ; capsules egg-shaped, rather pointed. 
( E. Bot. 2044. E.)— FI. Dan. 158— Scheuch. 11. 1 and 2. 
Boot fibrous. Straw triangular, a foot high, angles acute, roughish. 
Leaves broad, shorter than the straw, rough at the edge and on the keel. 
Upper spike mostly fertile, the lower part only barren, with an intermix¬ 
ture of perfect florets ; which is often the case with the others. Spikes 
oblong, acute, half an inch high, on long fruit-stalks, near together: 
pendent when ripe. Scales black, with a green keel; rather longer than 
the capsules. Floral-leaf, one to every spike, leaf-like, inclosing a very 
small part of the fruit-stalk. Capsule green, egg-shaped, often acute, 
compressed, slightly cloven at the end. Filaments two. Style with 
three hairy summits. This should, from the disposition of the barren 
and fertile florets, have been arranged under the second subdivision, but 
its habit strongly enforces its present situation. The black egg-shaped 
spikes, and the want of sheaths are sufficient to distinguish it. Gooden. 
Leaves ash-coloured sea-green, when dried yellowish green. Scheuchz. 
Spikes oval-spear-shaped, when in flower rising nearly to the same 
height, the uppermost without floral-leaves, unequal, frequently one or 
two small ones beneath the uppermost; the upper with barren flowers 
at the base, the rest mostly composed of fertile flowers. Scales spear- 
shaped, black, with a brown keel, but when viewed in a strong light, of 
an extremely rich reddish brown. Stamens two. Summits mostly three, 
sometimes two. Woodw. (Sowerby often finds three stamens. E. Bot. E.) 
Black Seg. Mountains of Wales about Llanberris, plentiful. Highland 
mountains, frequent. (On rocks in Breadalbane. Mr. Don. Near the 
summit of Snowdon, and Carnedd Llew r ellyn. Mr. Griffith. E.) 
P. June—* Aug. 
42. C. pul/la. Stigmas two; sheaths none; spikes egg-shaped, the 
lower one stalked; capsules egg-shaped, inflated, with a short 
bifid beak. 
E. Bot. 2045— Linn. Tr. 3. 14. 
Boot thick, creeping. Leaves nearly upright, narrow, rough at the edges 
and on the keel. Stem ascending, a span high, three-sided, the acute 
angles roughish. Barren spike terminal, upright, lanceolate, of numerous 
triandrous flowers. Fertile spikes mostly two, remote, egg-shaped, erect, the 
lowermost on a rough slender stalk, the upper one almost sessile, short¬ 
ened as it were, and often wanting. Glumes all elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, 
dark brown, with a thin, narrow, pale edge and an obsolete nerve. Fruit 
rather spreading, longer than the corresponding glume, elliptical, inflated, 
smooth, without ribs, pale at the base, of a dark shining brown at the 
summit when ripe, and terminating in a short cloven beak. Seed trian¬ 
gular. Gooden. 
Russet Carex. Mountains of Scotland. Ben Lawers. Mr. J. Mackay. 
Ben Lomond. Mr. G. Don. First fully described and figured in Linn. 
Tr. by the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle. Banks of the Tilt, 
Perthshire. Anderson. Hook. Scot. P. July. E.) 
43. C. pilulipera. Sheaths none; barren spike slender, fertile, 
somewhat globular, sessile, crowded; straw feeble. 
