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down ; the upper ones often having a few male florets at the end. 

 All the spikes sheathed at the base, sheath longer than the fruit- 

 stalks. Capsules entire at the rim, when full grown near twice 

 as long as the scales. Summits 3. Goodenough. Flowers 

 thin, irregularly scattered. Scales membranaceous, pale brown, 

 with a green keel. Capsules 3-cornered, brownish green, ribbed, 

 tapering regularly to a point at each end, but not taper pointed 

 as in C. sylvatica. Woodward. Differs from C. sylvatica in 

 its fruitstalks, being hardly longer than the sheaths, and its 

 capsules being 3-cornered and acute, but not with a long taper 



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point. Goodenough. 



Loose Seg. Slender-eared broad-leaved Cyperus-grass with 



many spikes. R. Syn. Woods and hedges. In a lane near Black 

 Notley, Essex. Near Oxford. [Woods near Oxford. Mr. 

 Newberry. — Lanewood and Shortwood, Pucklechurch, Glou- , 

 cestersh. Mr. Swayne. — In a wood at Hedenham, Norfolk. 

 Mr. Woodward.] P. April, May. 



22. C. Sheaths, short, inclosing nearly all the fruitstalk : proe'cox. 



spikes near together: male spike club-shaped: fern, 

 egg-shaped : capsules roundish, pubescent. 





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hand 



then* Dr. Goodenough.) 



-(the lower Jig. is a single- 

 have found, occurring now and 



Root creeping. Straw 6 to 12 inches high, leafless, 3- 

 cornered, angles smooth. Leav$s shorter than the straw, wide- 

 spreading, somewhat channelled, strap-shaped, pointed, rough 

 on the keel and at the edges. Spikes 1 male, from 1 to 3 females, 

 but mostly 2 ; near the top of the straw and not far asunder. 

 Scales membranaceous, rust-colour, about as long as the capsules. 

 Fruit stalk of the female spikes short, encompassed by a sheathing 

 leaf of the same length, which hardly ever exceeds the height of 

 the straw. Caps, cottony, egg-shaped, rather 3-cornered, mouth 

 undivided. Summits 3. Jacquin and Goodenough. Easily dis- 

 tinguishable from the C. pilulifera and saxatilis of Huds. by its 

 spikes having short peduncles encompassed by a sheath of the 

 same length, Mr, Huds. plants having no sheath. Goodenough. 

 From 2 to 10 inches high. The smaller specimens with stiff re- 

 curved leaves, have much the appearance of the C. rigida, but in 

 that the straw is rough, the flower scales black, the capsules 

 smooth and the summits only 2; whilst in this the straw is 

 smooth, the scales chesnut coloured, the capsules cottony, and the 

 summits 3. 



On wettish heaths, and poor soiled meadows, common. 



P. April, Mav. 



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