C A R E X stictocarpa.
Dotted-fruited Car ex.
MONCECIA Triandria.
Gen. Char. Flowers diclinous, in a closely imbricated
spike. Scales single-flowered. Male:
Perianthium none. Stamens 3. Female: Pe-
rianthium monophyllous, capsular, persistent,
contracted at the top, awnless at the base. Stigmas
2 or 3. Nut included within the enlarged
perianthium.
Spec. Char. “ Fertile catkins two, ovate, stalked.
Scales pointed. Sheaths scarcely any. Fruit
obovate, obtuse, pointless, finely dotted.”
Syn. Carex stictocarpa. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 4. 127.
“ J l\ jOOT creeping extensively, with brown scaly runners,
much like C. hirta. Stem erect, about a foot high,
triangular, smooth, leafy in its lower half. Leaves erect,
linear-lanceolate, pointed, flat, the breadth of C. hirta, but
quite naked and smooth, except a roughness at the edges
and keel near the extremity; the under surface rather
glaucous; the sheaths long, close and abrupt. Bracteas
leafy, as tall as the stem, very slightly or not at all sheathing
at their base, destitute of auricles. Barren catkins 2,
rather distant, erect, linear, obtuse, the upper, or largest,
near an inch long; scales obovate, obtuse ; pointless, dark
brown, with a pale rib. Fertile catkins 2, not more distant
than the barren ones, ovate, not half an inch long,
erect, each on a stout triangular stalk about its own length;
scales ovate, dark brown, each with a very strong, green