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CYPERACEiE 



scarcely 6 in. high, with short, flat, rigid leaves with revolute 

 margins ; spikelets 3 — 6, erect, short, dark ; fruit obovoid, com- 

 pressed, not veined. — Wet stony places on mountains in the north. 

 — Fl. June — August. Perennial. 



33. C. aqudtilis (Water Sedge). — A tall, tufted form, with 

 runners; stems 1^2 feet high, 3-angled, rigid, polished, leafy 

 below ; leaves long, erect, flat, involute ; spikelets 3 — 6, cyHndric, 



slender, i — 2\ in. 

 long ; fruit rounded, 

 compressed, not 

 veined. — Scottish 

 bogs ; rare. — Fl. June 

 — August. Perennial. 



34. C. salina, var. 

 Kattegatensis , with 

 erect, 3-angled stem, 

 12 — 18. in. high ; 

 leaves of the same 

 length, with rough 

 keels and margins ; 

 bracts leafy and longer 

 than the spikelets ; 

 staminate spikelets 

 2 — 3, sessile ; pistillate 

 ones 3—4, on short 

 stalks, dark brown, 

 has been recorded 

 from the sandy banks 

 of the River Wick, 

 Caithness. 



35. C. Goodendwii 

 (Common Tufted 

 Sedge). — A tufted or 

 creeping species ; 

 stems I — 2 feet high, 

 stiff, slender, 3-angled, 



rough ; leaves slender, narrow, erect, recurved ; spikelets 3 — 5, 

 erect, sub-sessile, not more than an inch long, near together ; 

 bracts with short auricles ; fruit rounded, compressed, many-veined. 

 — Marshes and wet meadows ; common. — Fl. May-^July. 

 Perennial. 



36. C. fldcca (Glaucous Sedge). — A creeping species ; stems few, 

 wiry, a foot or more in height, 3-angled, smooth ; leaves narrow, 

 flat, glaucous ; staminate spikelets 2 or 3 j pistillate spikelets 4 — 6, 



cXlex GOODEN6wn iConiiton Tzified Sedge). 



