2971.
CAREX ericetorum.
Heath Carex.
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 perianth, enclosing a nut. Style 1.
Stigmas 2 or 3.
Spec. Char. Barren spike 1. Fertile spikes 1-3,
ovoid, near together, sessile. Bracts not sheathing,
membranous. Glumes obovate, very blunt,
finely ciliate; midrib not extending to the top.
Perianth obovate, trigonous, hairy; with a very
short truncate beak, deeply notched on one side.
Nut subglobose, trigonous, not narrowed below,
nor with a prominent ring at the top. Stigmas 3.
Syn. Carex ericetorum. Poll.Fl.Palat.v.2.580 (1777);
FI. Dan. 1.1756. Schkuhr, Riedgras, v. 2. 50. 1.1.
ƒ. 42. Hoppe, in Sturm, Deutschl. FI. B. t. 26.
Reich. FI. Germ. Exc. 6 4 ; Icon. FI. Germ. v. 8 .
t. 262. Koch, Syn. FI. Germ. ed. 2. 876. Dreg.
FI. Hafn. 299. Gren. et Godr. FI. de Fr. v. 3. 414.
Des Moul. Phaner. de la Dordogne (Actes de la Soc.
Linn, de Bord. v. 20) 335. Anders. Cyper. 30.
t. 7. ƒ. 83. Coss. et Germ. FI. de Paris, ed. 2. 745.
Bab. Man. Br. Bot. ed. 5. 375.
C. ciliata. Willd. in Act. Berol. ann. 1794, 47. t. 3.
Sp. PI. v. 4.pt. 1. 261. Hort, FI. Aust. v. 2. 591.
Kunth, Cyp. 438. Gaud. Agros. Helv. v. 2. 133.
I^H IZ O M E rather thick, branched, creeping, clothed with
brown persistent scales, rooting. Culm 3-6 inches high,
slender, trigonous, smooth, ascending. Leaves scarcely a
line in breadth, much shorter than the stem, nearly flat,