upwards. Spikes brown, «the terminal onb largest, the
others sometimes all fertile. Bracteas broad, ovate, obtuse,
the lowest aristate, rarely foliaceous, and longer than the
spikelet. Fruit smooth, slightly nerved, with smooth margins,
and a slightly bifid scarious mouth which in maturity
appears entire. Scales scarious at the margin. Seed elliptic,
plano-convex, pale yellow.
This species, first described by Linnaeus in his FI. Lap-
ponica, was afterwards confounded in his FI. Suec. ed. 2. and
Sp. PL 1763, with C. ovalis, Good: whence the misconceptions
that have prevailed about the original C. leporina.
It is found on the Continent of Europe from the Alps to
Lapland, and is a native of Greenland, Arctic America, the
Rocky Mountains, and Mexico. It was discovered on rocks
in Lochnagar, Scotland, in August 1836, by Mr. Dickie and
Mr. Clark.—F. B.
