MONOCOTYLEDONS. CYPERACE.^. CaVe.V. 1/5 



a lomulish head, fruit broadly rotundato-ovate shortly acumina- 

 ted swelling- on botii sides nearlyentire at the point, culm obtuse- 

 lyansular, leaves channelled, p. 261. — Sandy sea-shores, rare. 



6. C. arenaria, lower spikelets fertile upper ones sterile all 

 crowded, fruit with a membranous margin, bracteas membra- 

 naceous the lower ones subfoliaceous, culm triangular, leaves 

 plane. p.2i)\.—Sandy sea-sfiores. 



7. C. intermedia, inferior and terminal spikelets fertile, the in- 

 termediate ones sterile, fruit acutely margined, culms triangu- 

 lar, p. 202. — Marshes. 



$. C. divisa, spikelets sterile at their extremity crowded into a 

 somewhat ovate head, the lower ones simple or compound 

 with a leafy erect bractea at their base, fruit roundisli ovate 

 convex on one side slightly concave on tlie other acutely an- 

 gular cloven at the point, p. 262. — Marahes. 



9. C. mnricata, spikelets sterile at their extremities subcom- 

 pounded collected into a rather long more or less interrupted 

 «pike, fruit convexo-plane ovato-acuminaie acntangular diver- 

 gent rough at the margin upward, p. 262. — Marshes. 



10. C. vu/pina, spikelets sterile at their extremities thrice com- 

 pounded collected into a cylindrical crowfled spike, fruit ovale 

 acuminated convexo-plane acutangular divergent, stem very 

 acutely triangular, leaves ratherbroad. p. 262. — IValery places. 



11. C. puniculata, spikelel^s sterile at their extremity thrice 

 compounded and collected into a panicled spike, fruit broadly 

 ovate acuminated gibl)ous on both sides with a somewhat mem- 

 branaceous margin towards the extremity, p. 262. — Marshes. 



ft Spikelets sterile at their base. 



12. C. stelhdata, sp'ikelels sterile at their base 3 or 4 distant, fruit 

 ovate much attenuated convex or plane acutangular divai icutcd 

 rough at the margins, p. 263. — Moist heaths. 



IS. C. carta, spikelets sterile at their base about 5 rather distant 

 elliptical, bractens very miimte (except the lower one), fruit 

 broadly ovate acute convex on one side and nearly plane on the 

 other subobtusangular with 2 teeth at the extremity, p. 263. 



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14, C. ova/ii, spikelets sterile at the base oval about ;> approxi- 

 mate, fruit as long as the scale ovato acuminate convex on one 

 side concave on the other with a membranaceous margin, bifid 

 at the point, p. 263. — Marshes. 



15. C. remota, spikelets sterile at the base distant, fruit longer 

 than the scale oblongo-ovate acuminate convexo-plane sub- 

 acutangular obtuse at the margins the point bifid, bracteas very 

 narroiv reaching beyond the culm, p, 263. — JVouds. 



