2923.
CAREX Grahami.
Graham’s Car ex.
MONCECIA Triandria.
Gen. Char. Flowers in imbricated spikes, each
covered by a scale. Barren flowers without
calyx or corolla. Fertile flowers with a single
urceolate persistent perigone, enclosing a nut.
Style 1. Stigmas 2 or 3.
Spec. Char. Spikes 4 or 5, cylindrical, ferruginous.
Barren spikes 2, rarely 1, slender, acute. Fertile
spikes 2 or 3, subserrate, thick, obtuse, the
lower ones stalked, evaginate, subnutant. Stig.
2. Perigone oblong-ovate, beaked, bifurcate, inflated,
nerved, suberect, ferruginous, pale below,
twice as long as the ovate acute scale, which is
of a dark brown colour, white at top, with a
pale nerve.
Carex Grahami. Boott Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 19.
p. 215. Bab. Man. Br. Bot. ed. 2. 363.
C. saxatilis, Linn. (C. pullae, Good, forma), {Bot.
Anglicorum.)
C. vesicaria. Var. alpigena. Fries Nov. FI. Suec.
Mant. 3. 142. (excl. syn. Drej. et Hook.)
R o o t fibrous, woody, stoloniferous. Culm 2 feet high,
acutely triquetrous, striate, rough towards the top, straight,
firm, clothed at base with the purplish rudiments of leaves,
which are often torn into shreds at the edges, and with sheathing
leaves. Leaves 2 lines broad, shorter than the culm, striate,
carinate, rough. Bracts leafy, without sheaths, flat, generally
exceeding the culm, and furnished with 2 very short, roundish
obtuse, ferruginous auricles, which are scarious at the edges.
Spikes 4-5, occupying a space from 3 to 4 | inches long at
the apex of the culm. Barren spikes 7-9 lines long, 1-1^