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C A R E X fulva.
Tawny Car ex.
MON OECIA Triandria.
G en. Char. Male, Catkin imbricated. Cal. o f l scale.
Cor. none. Female, Catkin imbricated. Cal. o f
1 scale. Cor. none. Stigmas 2 or 3. Seed clothed
with a swelling tunic.
Spec. Char. Sheaths long, but shorter than the flower-
stalks. Female spikes ovate. Fruit beaked, straight.
Stem rough.
Syn. Carex fulva. Gooden. Tr. o f Linn. Soc. v. 2. 177.
t. 20. f . 6. v. 3. 77. Sm. FI. Brit. 991.
TIJTQ
r , DeT sPecies was first described and figured by Dr
f o v M r ° w V r0m sPeci“ ens gathered in Shropshire by the
M rW in ^ x f S‘ M,r- G° tJ0bed has since found h near felon,
it L r n ^ ew? t-e’ and se.veral of our friends have sent
fln„„ • Scot,Tand- 1S perennial, growing flowering in June or July. 5 in marshes5, and
. **?“ 6reCt’ slenderJ about a foot high,
u n n e rn tri heranS eS sharP " ul very rough> at least in all the
"PP h P? A Le,fVeS uP?ght’ narrow, shorter than the stem,
d at the edges and keel, but not on the upper side.
HsTnaThWlth,l°nglSh br0^ n' tlPPed sheaths, their points not
rnrelv q tbe Stem' ^ a*e sP‘ke linear. Female ones 2,
, ‘h l l u f a? 7, oyate’ erect> remote, on stalks which are
about halt as long again as their sheaths. Glumes ovate, never
awned, obscurely nerved. Fruit longer than the glumes
brownish pointing upwards (not recurved), beaked, smooth,
vefln u ' hC GdgeS ° f the beak> cloven at the tip. Seed
yellowish brown, twice as large as in the preceding
more^k" l,he CEUSe of this mistake- C. fulva h rather
more akin to distant; t 1234, but smaller, and distinguished
beaked roufh-edgS l ^ T “ T f " “ ™
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