2666
C A R E X Vahlii.
Close-headed alpine Car ex.
MONCEClA Triandria.
Gen. Char. Spikes imbricated, dioecious or androgynous.
Calyx a single glume. Barren flowers;
Cor. none. Fertile flowers; Cor. urceolate, of
one piece, persistent and inclosing a nut. Stigmas
2—3.
Spec. CkTar. Spikes 3—4, roundish or oblong, aggregated
; the terminal one with barren flowers
at its base. Stigmas 3. Fruit obovate, scabrous
above with minute crystalline prickles, shortly
beaked, longer than the ovate, obtuse calyx.
Stem triangular, rough at the edges.
Svn. Carex Vahlii. Schkuhr, Caric. t. Gg. no. 94. 8$
App. 46. t. Ppp. no. 154. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4.252.
C. alpina. FI. Dan. t. 403. Wahl. FI. Lapp. 241.
FI. Suec. p. 606. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3.815.
E a r l y in the month of August last (1830), Professor
Graham made an excursion to the mountains of Braemar,
Cairngorm, and Clova, in which he was accompanied by a
few botanical friends, and some of the most zealous of his
students. In the course of this excursion the present in-
teresting addition to the British Flora was discovered by
Mr. Balfour and myself, growing on moist declivities among
some precipitous rocks which surround a small loch about
two miles above Loch Callader*. It is much to be regretted
that the party had not sufficient time to examine the glens
and corries of that district more carefully, as there is every
reason to conclude many good things would have been found
* Loch Callader is about six miles from Castleton in Bræmar.