CYPERACE 175 
C. Inflorescence a spike, raceme, or panicle, consisting 
of small few-flowered spikelets, composed of male and 
female flowers ; stem leafless. 
(a.) Stigmas 3 :—C. curvula, All.; moist, rare. 
(2.) Stigmas 2; lower flowers female, upper male :—C. 
incurva, L.; root-stock stoloniferous, fruit inflated; pas- 
tures, local. C. fetida, All.; head compact, globular, 
red-brown; Switzerland, Tirol, Salzburg, rare. C. Lag- 
gert, Wimm.; spike ovate-lanceolate, dark red-brown; 
very rare (Grimsel). C. mzcrostyla, Gay; stem slender, 
spike elliptic, few-flowered; Switzerland, Salzburg, rare. 
(c.) Stigmas 2; lower flowers male, upper female :—C. 
mactlenta, Fr.; root-stock stoloniferous; calcareous hills. 
C. leporina, L.; spikelets crowded, ovate, fruit winged ; 
pastures. C. lagopina, Whlb.; spikelets round, fruit 
not winged; pastures. C. Grypus, Schk. (stel/ulata, 
Good.) ; spikelets distant, forming an interrupted spike ; 
peat-bogs. C. elongata, L.; spikelets linear or elliptic, 
forming an interrupted distichous spike; moist, local. 
C. Persoontt, Sieb.; stem 6-12 in., rough, spikelets 5-8, 
brown and green; moist. C. canescens, L.; stem 2—4 in., 
rough, spikelets usually 6, pale green; moist. C. ¢etra- 
stachya, Traunst.; stem rough, spikelets 4; Tirol, very 
rare. 
PD. Inflorescence composed of one or more terminal 
male spikelets, beneath which are one or more (usually 
stalked) female spikelets ; stigmas 2:—C. mucronata, All.; 
fruit lanceolate, leaves setaceous; moist. C. dzcolor, All.; 
fruit elliptic, not beaked; very high. C. vulgaris, Fr. ; 
fruit obovate, beaked, leaves narrowly linear; moist. C. 
vigida, Good.; fruit elliptic, not beaked, leaves broadly 
linear; Tirol, very rare. 
