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much flattened, ovate, beaked, pale. — Wet places ; common. — Fl. 

 June, July. Perennial. 



1 4. C. vulpinoides, an allied North American species, has been 

 recorded from the banks of the Thames near Kew. 



15. C. muricdta (Great Prickly Sedge). — A densely tufted 

 species, with short runners ; stems 1 — 2 feet high, slender, 3- 

 angled, rough ; leaves narrow, flat ; spikelets 4 — 6, rather short, 

 brown or shining green, with a 



few staminate flowers at the top 

 of each crowded into a terminal 

 spike about an inch long, or the 

 lower ones distant ; fruit rather 

 large, ovate, pointed, spread- 

 ing, 2-fid, finely toothed above. 

 — Gravelly pastures ; common. 

 — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



16. C. divulsa (Grey Sedge). 

 — An allied species with more 

 slender, flaccid stems and 5 or 

 6 paler, greyish, more distant 

 sfikelets, forming an inter- 

 rupted spike, 2 — 3 in. long, 

 occurs in moist, shady places. 

 — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



17. C. echindta (Lesser 

 Prickly or Star-headed Sedge). 

 — Tufted, rarely above 6 or 8 

 in. high ; leaves shorter than 

 the stems ; sfikelets 3 — 5, some 

 distance apart, except some- 

 times the 2 uppermost, nearly 

 globular when ripe, pale ; fruit 

 spreading, broadly ovate, much 

 beaked, about 2 lines long. — 

 Boggy places ; common. — Fl. 

 May, June. Perennial. 



18. C. y^wo^a (Distant-spiked Sedge). — A tufted plant; stems 

 slender, i — 2 feet high; leaves narrow; 5/>zM^/^ small, pale, a 

 considerable distance apart, the lower ones each in the axil of a 

 long, leafy bract ; the lower flowers mostly staminate ; fruit ovate- 

 lanceolate, longer than the glumes, with notched beak. — Damp 

 copses ; common. — Fl. June. Perennial. 



19. C. axillaris (Axillary Sedge), possibly a hybrid between the 

 preceding and C muricdta ; has taller, stouter, leafy sterns^ i — 2 



cArex remota (^Distant-Spiked Sedge). 



