. Flowers of the field. Botany. SEDGE FAMILY 541 stems 2—6 in. high, stiff, curved, 3-angled, smooth ; leaves recurved, keeled; siaminate spikckt spindle-shaped, i in. long; pistillate spikelets 1—3, ovoid, sessile, small, close together, 6—lo-flowered ; glumes brown, with a broad pale edge, very blunt, ciliate, as long as the jruit.—Chalk banks in the eastern counties; rare.—Fl. April—June. Perennial, 46. C. caryophvllea (Spring Sedge). —A small, creeping species «ith runners ; stem 6—12 in. high, 3- angled ; leaves short, keeled, curved, densely tufted ; staminate spikelet slender, erect ; p
. Flowers of the field. Botany. SEDGE FAMILY 541 stems 2—6 in. high, stiff, curved, 3-angled, smooth ; leaves recurved, keeled; siaminate spikckt spindle-shaped, i in. long; pistillate spikelets 1—3, ovoid, sessile, small, close together, 6—lo-flowered ; glumes brown, with a broad pale edge, very blunt, ciliate, as long as the jruit.—Chalk banks in the eastern counties; rare.—Fl. April—June. Perennial, 46. C. caryophvllea (Spring Sedge). —A small, creeping species «ith runners ; stem 6—12 in. high, 3- angled ; leaves short, keeled, curved, densely tufted ; staminate spikelet slender, erect ; pistillate spikelets 1—3, oblong, close together; glumes small, broad, with a distinct, fine point, brown edges, and green midrib as long as the ovoid, 3-sided, shortly beaked and slightly downy fruit.— Dry pastures ; common.—Fl. iVpril, May. Perennial. 47. C. tonientosa (Downy-fruited Sedge), known only from Marston Maisey, Wiltshire. Root-stock creep- ing ; stem slender, erect, 12—18 in. high; leaves narrow, erect, short; staminate spikelet terminal, about an inch long ; pistillate spikelets i or 2, at some distance, oblong, erect, nearly sessile, 5 in. long, compact; lower bracts leafy ; glumes small, brown; styles 3-cleft; jruit small, globose, with copious white down.— Wet meadows. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 48. C. pallescens (Pale Sedge).— Stems tufted, without runners, leafv at the base, i—2 feet high ; staminate spikelet terminal, light brown, about 6 lines long ; pistillate spikelets 2 or 3, pale yellowish-green, shortly stalked, erect or slightly drooping, oblong, shorter than the staminate one and at short distances below it ; bracts leafy ; styles 3-cleft : fruit smooth, blunt.—Wet places ; —Fl. June, July, Perennial. 49. C. panicea (Carnation-grass). — A tufted, creeping plant v,-ith runners; steins i—2 feet high, smooth, leafv; leaves rather. ;.4rEX PANicE.\ {Carliatiofl g-rass).. Please note that these images are
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