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Flowers (apparently) at the side of the stem; plant with 
no green leaves, only brownish scales. 
Flowers few (about 7), usually not more than half-way, 
| up the very slender stem. J 
filifor’mis. 
Flowers numerous, usually nearer the top. 
Stem not striated or furrowed when fresh, weak and. 
( pliable ; (flowers densely or loosely clustered). ‘i 
communis. Common Kush. 
L Sian striated, stiff and somewhat rigid; flowers in a ~ 
loose cluster. 
glau'cus. Hard Rush? 
Flowers at the end; plant with leaves, which are cylindrical 
and rush-like, or flattened. 
Rare Cornish plants, 2 or 3 inches high. 
Flowers in a (usually single) terminal head, their. 
( segments very fine-pointed; fruit short and sari 
| capita’tus. 
~Flowers in 3-5 clustérs, their segments less finely. 
pointed ; fruit longer and narrower. | 
pygme'us.- 
Plant 6 inches high or more. 
Leaves cylindrical, hollow, with cross-partitions inside- 
when split open, making them look as if jointed | 
when dry. ‘ 
All the flower-segments blunt. 3 
( obtusifollius. | 
The 3 outermost segments (at least) pointed. I 
L articula'tus. Formted Kush. ) 
Leaves without cross-partitions, grooved on the upper 
side, or threadlike. 
Flowers about 2 or 3, elose together at the end of 
the stem. ) 
biglu'mis.~ 
Flowers several, on longer stalks. 
Flower-segments with fine, narrow points; 
bracts very long and slender; (Carnarvon | 
and Herefordshire). ten'uis,” 
Flower-segments wide-pointed or obtuse. 
Leaves all at (or surrounding) the base of 
the stiff, solid, wiry stem, and met | 
shorter. squarro'sus.- 
Stem hollow, with 1 or 2 leaves higher up 
(below the bracts). 
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compres’sus.~ 
