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curved, about the same length ; spikelets 3 or 4, in a dense, 

 nearly globular head, each with a few staminate flowers at the 

 top ; jruit broad, rather inflated, tapering into a short beak 

 projecting beyond the glumes. — Sandy shores in the north ; 

 rare. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



7. C. divisa (Bracteate Marsh Sedge). — Root-stock stout ; stems 

 very slender, i — 3 feet high, erect ; leaves long, narrow ; spikelets 

 few, short, crowded in a head with a leafy 

 bract at its base, several upper flowers 

 staminate ; fruit plano-convex, not 

 winged, with an acutely 2-fid, finely 

 toothed beak. — Marshes near the sea ; 

 frequent. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



8. C. disticha (Soft Brown Sedge). — 

 Root-stock creeping ; stems stouter than in 

 the preceding, i — 3 feet high ; leaves 

 long, narrow ; spikelets in an oblong, 

 interrupted spike, pale brown, the middle 

 ones staminate ; fruit ovate-lanceolate, 

 narrowly winged. — Marshy places. — Fl. 

 May — July. Perennial. 



9. C. arendria (Sand Sedge). — Root- 

 stock very long, stout, and branched, 

 creeping over and binding the sands ; 

 stems tufted, 8 — 10 in. high, stout, rough, 

 leafy at base ; leaves radical, stiff, in- 

 volute ; spikelets many, rather large, 

 ovoid, in an interrupted spike i or 2 in. 

 long, the upper ones staminate, the lower 

 pistillate, and the middle ones with 

 flowers of both kinds ; fruit ovate, veined, 

 winged, shining chestnut-brown. — Sandy 

 sea-shores. — Fl. June. Perennial. 



10. C. didndra (Lesser Panicled 

 Stdg^).— Root-stock creeping, with scat- cArex arenArIa {Sand s.dge). 

 tered tufts ; stems i — 2 feet high, slender, 



3-angled ; spikelets few, oblong, acute, forming a dense compound 

 spike about an inch long ; fruit ovate, swollen, brown, shining, with 

 2 — 5 ribs on the back, beaked. — Boggy meadows. — Fl. June. 

 Perennial. 



11. C. paradoxa, a rare form, intermediate between the 

 preceding and following species, more densely tufted than the 

 preceding ; stem covered below by the black fibrous remains of 

 dead .leaves ; spikelets elongate, in a panicle somewhat interrupted 



