2896.
CAR EX parad oxa.
Paradoxical Carex.
MONCECIA Triandria.
Gen. Char. Flowers in imbricated spikes, each
covered by a glume. Barren flowers without
calyx or corolla. Fertile flowers with a single,
urceolate, persistent perigone inclosing a nut.
Style 1. Stigmas 2 or 3.
Spec. Char. Spikes narrowly panicled, androgynous,
sterile at the end ; lower branches short, rather
distant. Stigmas 2. Fruit ovate-gibbous, with
numerous short elevated ribs near its base ; beak
bidentate, serrulate, wingless. Nut rhomboidal,
constricted below, convex on both sides ; beak
very short; style slightly thickened at the base.
Stem trigonous. Root tufted.
Syn. Carex paradoxa. Willd. Act. Berol. 1794. 39.
t. 1./. 1. Caricol. 39. Schk. Car. t. E. no. 21.
“ Wahl. Act. Holm. 1803. 142.” Spr. FI. Hal.ed.
2. v. 1. 405. Hoppe Car. Germ. t. a. 12. Spenn.
FI. Frib. 1048. Gaud. Agrost. v. 2. 90. Kunth
Caric. 390. Koch Syn. FI. Germ. 752. Bab.
Man. Br. Bot. 337.
C. canescens. Host. Gram. v. 1. t. 57.
Vignea paradoxa. Reich. FI. Excurs. no. 410.
D e NSELY tufted. Stems 1-2 feet high, with numerous
dark brown scales at the base, slender, trigonous, the faces
convex, the angles scabrous towards the top. Leaves long,
slender, rough at the edges, triquetrous at the end. Spikes
scarcely panicled, but rather forming a compound oblong spike,
close above but rather lax below. Spikelets with the upper