108 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
ditches near rivers—viz., C. v2fifera, with its 
black clusters of upright spikes, and C. 
paludosa, a similar but much more slender 
plant—are truly ornamental. C. remota, with 
its small roundish pale spikelets distant from 
each other, an elegant ornament of the brook- 
side, is a great contrast to these. C. padlescens 
has delicate pale spikes, the barren one rising 
from amidst the fertile ones at its base; it is 
avery pretty specimen. C. sylvatica has long 
pale green spikes dangling on extremely 
slender stalks. C. ampullacea displays hand- 
some yellow-brown spikes in boggy places. 
Du: Chaillu, in his account. of the airene 
people, says that this species and C. veszcarza 
form the “Shoe-grass” of the Lapps, with 
which they protect their feet from cold. C. 
paniculata is a water-loving species, often 
several feet high, with large brown branched 
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spikes ; all these are interesting and elegant. 
C. vulpina, Great Sedge, is a robust plant, 
very frequent, two feet high, with coarse stiff 
spike of crowded compound green spikelets, 
and leaves so rough at the margin as to be 
dangerous to meddle with. C. dzvulsa, and 
C. muricata, two nearly allied species, common 
