2924.
CAREX montana.
Mountain Carex.
MONCECIA Triandria.
Gen. Char, (see p. 2923.)
Spec. Char. Spikes 2 or 3, sessile, crowded, dark
purple. Barren spike terminal, oblong, cylindric. Fertile spikes 1 or 2, ovate, few-flowered. Stig.
3. Perigone oblong, triquetrous above, at length pyriform, rostellate, with an emarginate, fringed mouth, hairy, nerved, longer than the oblong-
obtuse, emarginate, mucronate, fringed scale. Syn. Carex montana. Linn. Sp. PI. n. 15 (1753).
FI. Suec. 845 (1755), fide speciminum in Herb. Linn, asserv. Vill. FI. Delph. v. 2.211. Wahl.
Act. Holm. 150. FI. Carpat. 301. FI. Upsal. 313. FI. Suec. 605. Schkuhr t. F. n. 29.
Host Gr. Austr. v. 1. t. 66. Besser Prim. FI.
Gall. Austr. 258. Gaud. Agrost. Helv. v. 2. 129.
FI. Helv. v. 6. 76. Wimmer et Grab. FI. Sites,
v. 2. 306. Reich. FI. Ger. Exc. 64. Icon.
FI. Germ. t. 261. f. 633. Hoppe Car. Ger.
t. 21. b. Drejer FI. Exc. Hafn. 298. Koch Syn.
FI. Ger. ed. 2. 876. Bab. Man. ed. 2. 368.
C. conglobata. Allion. FI. Ped. 2314 (1785).
C. globularis. Willd. Act. Ber. 45. t. 2.ƒ. 1. (1794).
C. collina. Willd. Sp. Pl.v. 4.260. Kunth CypA31. C. emarginata. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4.262. Schkuhr
t. Ooo. n. 153.
C. pubescens. Gaudin Etr. de FI.
Cyperoides montanum, foliis angustis,&c. Scheuch.
Agrost. 419. t. 10.ƒ. 8, 9 (1719).
Cyperoides Alpinum saxatile, capillaceo folio, &c.
Micheli Nov. Gen. 64. t. 32. f. 3 (1729).
R h iz o m a thick, branched, creeping, clothed with the
pale persistent fibres of the leaves, throwing out tortuous
woody roots, “ latum spatium occupans,” as Linnaeus observes.
Culm 6-12 inches high, slender, triquetrous, rough at top,
leafy below, erect, or finally inclined. Leaves about a line
in breadth, shorter than the stem, (those of the antecedent
year longer,) of a soft texture and a yellowish green colour,