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31. C. Sheaths short: fern, spikes nearly cylindrical, pen- recur'va. 



dent : capsules roundish egg-shaped : roots creeping. 



Leers 15. 3-Fl. dan. 105 \-H. ox. viii. 12. 14* 



Straw triangular, angles smoothish, sea-green, about a foot 

 high. Leaves the same glaucous green at the stem ; very rough 

 on the keel and the edges. M. spike 1 or 2, rarely 3, terminat- 

 ing, slender, about an inch long. Fern, spikes 3, the same length 

 but thicker, on long fruit-stalks, pendent when ripe ; far asunder. 

 Sheaths inclosing scarce a 4th part of the length of the fruit-stalk, 

 broad at the base, but ending in a leaf often taller than the straw. 

 Capsules egg-shaped, indistinctly3-sided, bluntish, a little cottony, 

 closed at the mouth, rather longer than the scales. Summits 5, 

 thick, downy. Varies much in size and habit, but the pendent 

 black female spikes, the glaucous leaves, the short sheaths, the 

 roundish capsules, the smoothish straw, and the creeping root, 

 are obvious distinctions. Goodenough. 



Heath Seg. Moist meadows, pastures, heaths, and woods, 

 [Wet woods in New Forest, plentiful. Pastures near Thornbury, 

 Gloucestershire.] P. May, June, 



32. C. Sheaths extremely short, fern, spikes rather cylin- palles'ccns 



drical, pendent when in fruit : capsules oblong, blunt. 



Diets, b. s.-FI. dan. \QbO-Pluk. 34. 5-Mich. 32. 13-Leersl5. 4. 



Root fibrous. Leaves narrow, rough on the keel and the edge, 

 (slightly) hairy. M. spike single, terminating. F. spikes 3, all 

 near together, blunt, on fruit-stalks. Sheaths not inclosing more 

 than an eighth part of the fruit-stalk, but ending in a leaf much 

 taller than the stem. Capsules closely crowded, oblong, blunt, 

 somewhat longer than the scales, mouth entire. Summits 3. F. 

 spikes when in flower egg-shaped, when fully ripe nearly cylin- 

 drical. Goodenough. Stems many, I to 2 feet high, triangular, 

 roughish, leafy below, naked upwards. Leaves in bundles from 

 the root, yellowish green, the lower short, the upper nearly as 

 long as the stem. Barren spike £ to | inch long, slender, closely • 

 tiled, with sometimes a single fertile flower at its base. Scales 

 oval-spear-shaped. Fertile spikes 1 to 5, the lowermost on a 

 very short slender fruit-stalk. Scales oval, pointed. Summits 3. 

 Caps, oval, pale yellowish green. Mr. Woodward. 



Pale Seg. Moist meadows and pastures. [Woods on a moist 

 clayey soil in Norfolk and Suffolk, frequent. Woodward- — 

 Wet woods in gravelly soil in the New Forest.] P. May, June. 



33. C. Sheaths hardly any : fern, spikes egg-shaped, pen limo'sa, 



dent : capsules egg-shaped^ compressed : roots creep- 



ing. 



Fl. dan. 6±6-Wilden. I. t-Scheucb. 10. 13. 



Root jointed, throwing out at the joints long fibres, and tufts 



