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ing the persistent style, longer than the glumes. Marshes, rare, from Yorks 
to Kent and Sussex. A eenutioh plant 1—2 feet high, with acutely triangular 
stems, which are rough, as well as the leaves. The glumes are brown, with 
a greenish keel and iit edges. Upper spikelets crowded ; lower, distant 
from one another, about their own length. Flowering in June. 
12. Distant-spiked Sedge (C. reméta). __Spikelets several, all single, 
approximate towards the top, but very distant below ; fruit oblong, ovate, 
acute, the beak deeply 2-cleft; bracts very long, overtopping the stem. 
Moist places, common. A slender plant, from a foot to a foot and a half 
high, with from 6—8 small pale green spikelets and very long narrow leafy 
bracts, the lowest of which overtops the stem several inches ; the upper ones 
are gradually shorter. It flowers in June. 
13. Axillary-clustered Sedge (C. azilliris).—Spikelets several, the 
upper ones single, close together, the lower in distant groups of two or 
more ; fruit oblong, ovate, acute, the upper part serrated, the beak deeply 
2-cleft ; bract of the lower compound spikelet longer, the others shorter 
than the spikelets ; glumes shorter than the fruit. Marshes. A rare species, 
well distinguished by the above characters from the foregoing, which it 
resembles in many respects. Flowers in June. Hooker fils regards this and 
the next as forms of C. remota. 
14. Boenninghausen’s Sedge (C. benninghausenidna). — Spikelets 
several, the upper ones simple, close together, the lower distant, compound ; 
fruit narrow, tapering to a point, the upper part serrated; bract of the 
lower compound spikelet overtopping the stem ; glumes equalling the fruit. 
Marshes, rare. Closely allied to the preceding. It flowers in June. 
*** Spikelets alternate, barren at their extremity, compound. 
15. Great Panicled Sedge (C. paniculdta).—Spike compound, consist- 
ing of numerous ovate stalked spikelets, which are themselves compound ; 
fruit flat on one side, convex on the other, many-nerved, and ending in a 
winged triangular beak ; stem rough, triangular, with flat sides. A common 
and picturesque plant, from 4—5 feet high, inhabiting spongy bogs, where 
it forms elevated tussocks or tufts, 3 or 4 feet in diameter, after the habit of 
Aira cespitésa, and of much service in consolidating the soil. The leaves are 
long, broad, and very rough at the margins. It flowers in June. 
16. Paradoxical Sedge (C. paradéaza).—Spike compound, narrow ; 
fruit much the same as in the preceding, except that the beak is not winged ; 
stem rough above, triangular, with convex sides. Resembling the last in 
habit, but much smaller, being from 1—2 feet high, very rare, having been 
found in bogs only in Yorkshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, and near Mullingar. 
It flowers in July. It is classed by Hooker as a sub-species of C. paniculata. 
17. Lesser Panicled Sedge (C. feretiviscula).— Spike compound, 
oblong, consisting of numerous crowded spikelets ; fruit resembling that of 
C. paniculata ; stem like that of C. paradoxa. Boggy meadows, rare, June. 
Resembling in many respects C. paniculdta but very much smaller, Ttoot- 
stock creeping, forming less decided tussocks. 
18; Great Sedge | (C. vulpina).—Spike cylindrical, consisting of numerous 
crowded compound spikelets ; fruit large, terminating in a long rough beak ; 
