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Fruits tapering into a beak. 



Female catkins compact, nearly sessile. Leafy 

 bracts short, very rarely exceeding the 

 stem. 

 Female catkins short, yellowish - green, 

 mostly near the top of the stem. 

 Fruits very spreading. Stems three 

 to eight inches high. Plant yellow- 

 ish green 30. Small Yellow Caeex. 



Female catkins oblong, brown, very distant. 

 Fruits with an erect or slightly 

 spreading beak, and ribbed. 

 a. Stems twelve to fifteen inches high. 



Fruits ovate, angular 31. Tawny Caeex. 



6. Stems two to four feet high. Fruit 

 with two prominent green ribs near 



the margin 33. Geeen-eiebed Sedge. 



c. Stems two to four feet high. Fruit 

 ovate, triangular, convex, very acu- 

 minate 34. Smooth Sedge. 



Femslle catkins loose, cylindrical, stalked. 

 Female catkins brown. Fruits with a very 

 short beak. Stems six to twelve 



inches high 35. Pink-leaved Caeex. 



Female catkins green. Fruits \\'ith along beak. 

 Peduncles of the lower catkins very long. 

 Stems twelve to twenty inches 



high. Plant delicate 37. Common Wood-sedge. 



Peduncles of the lower catkins short. 

 a. Stems twelve to fifteen inches high. 



Fruits ovate, triangular 31. Tawny Caeex. 



6. Stems two to four feet high. Fruit 

 with two prominent green ribs 



near the margin 33. Geeen-eibbed Sedge. 



c. Stems two to four feet high. Fruit 

 ovate, triangular, convex, very 



acuminate 34. Smooth Sedge. 



, One terminal male cation. Female catkins more 

 or less pendulous. Bracts with sheaths, 

 rarely without. 

 Female catkins brown ; fruits not beaked. 

 Stems six to twelve inches high. 

 Fruits compressed. Female catkins egg- ISO. Geeen and Gold 



shaped, dense ) Caeex. 



Fruits egg-shaped. Female catkins cyUn- 

 drical, drooping, on very long recurved 

 stalks 



41. Glaucous Heath 

 Caeex. 



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