50 CYPERACEA 
fruit, and the numerous yellow anthers of its barren spikelet. The stems 
are smooth and obtusely triangular. It flowers in June. 
44. Short Brown-spiked Sedge (C. vagindta).—Resembling the last, 
except that the fruit is beaked, the broader leaves chiefly from the rootstock 
and never glaucous. On the Highland mountains, rare ; flowering in July. 
45, Starved Wood Sedge (C. depauperdta).—Fertile spikelets 3 or 4, 
each containing about the same number of flowers ; bracts leaf-like, very 
long; fruit large and terminating in a long beak. Dry woods, very rare. 
Godalming, Surrey ; Charlton Wood, Kent; Somerset, and near Forfar. 
where it flowers in May and June. A strongly marked species, with pale 
foliage and erect habit, the leaf-like bracts sometimes overtopping the slender 
terminal spikelet. 
** * * Stigmas 3; fruit smooth ; fertile spikelets stalked, drooping, short. 
46. Dwarf Capillary Sedge (C. capilléris).—Spikelets in long stalks, 
several sheathed by a common bract. <A plant of humble growth from 2—8 
inches high, bearing 3 or 4 few-flowered, slender spikelets, of which one is 
barren, in a kind of umbel. Mountains from Yorkshire northwards ; flower- 
ing in June and July. 
47. Loose-flowered Alpine Sedge (C. rarifléra).—Fertile spikelets 2, 
slender, loose, few-flowered ; bracts very short and narrow; fruit oblong, 
enfolded in the large blunt glumes. Bogs in the Scottish Highlands, rare, 
attaining the height of 8—10 inches, and flowering in June. 
48. Mud Sedge (C. limdédsa).—Fertile spikelets 2, ovate, compact ; bracts 
narrow, as long as the stalks of the fertile spikelets. Marshes, local, Scot- 
land, and southwards to Dorset and Hampshire ; Ireland. Remarkable for 
its large glumes and long narrow leaves, which nearly equal them in height, 
10—12 inches. It flowers in June. 
49. Scorched Alpine Sedge (C. ustuldta).—Resembling the last in 
some of the characters, but growing only a span high, and bearing broad 
short leaves. Reported by G. Don to have been found on Ben Lawers, but 
never verified. 
** ** * Stigmas 3; fruit smooth ; fertile spikelets stalked, drooping, long. 
50. Loose Pendulous Sedge (C. strigésa).—Bracts leafy, with long 
sheaths ; fertile spikelets slender, loose, slightly drooping; fruit oblong, 
tapering ; leaves broad, pale. Woods, rare, ranging from Chester and Yorks 
to Kent and Somerset ; also in Ireland. 
51. Pendulous Wood Sedge (C. sylvatica) —Bracts leafy, with sheaths 
not half so long as the stalks; fertile spikelets slender, loose, pendulous ; 
fruit ovate, tapering in a long, cloven, smooth beak. Woods, common ; 
flowering in May and June. A tufted plant with slender stems, from 1—1} 
feet high, bright green foliage, and loose spikelets, about half the length of 
the preceding, which are pendulous, on long, very slender stalks. ‘‘ Linnzeus 
tells us that this plant, when cured and dressed, is employed by the Lap- 
landers to protect their feet from the cold.”—Sir IV. J. Hooker. 
52. Great Pendulous Sedge (C. péndula).—Bracts leafy, with long 
sheaths nearly equalling the stalks; fertile spikelets distant, very long, 
