C A R E X pulla.
Russet Carex.
MONOECIA Triandrta.
GfiN. Char. Male, Catkin imbricated. Cal. of one
scale. Car. none. Female, Catkin imbricated.-
Cal. o f one scale. Cor. none. Stigmas 2 or 3 .
Seed clothed with a swelling tunic.
Spec. Char. Stigmas two. Sheaths none. Spikes
ovate ; the lower one stalked. Fruit elliptical, inflated,
with a short notched beak.
Syn. Carex pulla. Gaoden. Tr. o f Linn'. Soc. v. 3 .
7 8 . t. 14. 8m. FI. Brit. 9 8 3 . Hall. 2 0 8 . '
CoMMfJNICATED wild from the mountain of Ben L awers
by our lamented friend Mr. J. Mackay, at different times,
several years ago. It flowers in July, and is perennial. ,
Root creeping, with thick fibres. Stem ascending or erect,
about a span high, triangular, striated, the angles rough in
the upper -part. Leaves nearly erect, flat, rough-edged.
Brae tea leafy, rough-edged, embracing the stem, but not
forming ,a sheath. Male spike terminal, upright, lanceolate,
of numerous triandrous flowers. Female spikes mostly two,
remote, ovate, erect, the lowermost on a rough slender stalk
which varies in length; the upper one almost sessile, shortened
as it werfi, and often wanting. Glumes all elliptic-lanceolate,
obtuse, dark-brown, with a thin narrow pale edge and an
obsolete nerve. Fruit rather spreading, longer than the
corresponding glume, elliptical, inflated, smooth, without
ribs,, pale at the base, of a dark shining brown at the
summit when ripe, and terminating in a short cloven beak.
Stigmas two, acute. Seed triangular.