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short, erect, flat, glaucous, resembling those of the Carnation, but 

 with rough edges ; spikelets usually 3, the terminal one staminate, 

 the others pistillate, distant, erect, stalked, \ — i in. long ; flowers, 

 especially the lowest, some distance apart ; bracts short, leafy, 

 with sheaths ; glumes brown ; styles 3-cleft ; fruit ovoid, triangular, 

 smooth, shordy beaked. — Wet meadows; common.— Fl. June, 

 July. Perennial. 



50. C. vagindta (Short Brown-spiked Sedge). — A closely allied 

 alpine species, but not glaucous, with broader, recurved leavss ; 

 shorter bracts with looser, funnel-shaped sheaths ; looser spikelets ; 

 paler and more blunt glumes; and larger, more beaked fruit. — 

 Scottish mountains. — Fl. July. Perennial. 



51. C. atrofusca (Dusky Sedge). — Stem ^ — 10 in. high; leaves 

 very short, broad ; staminate spikelet terminal ; pistillate spikelets 

 2 — 4, ovoid, shortly stalked ; bracts sheathing ; glumes ovate, 

 acute, dark purple, with a pale midrib ; fruit dark purple, rough- 

 edged, with a 2-fid beak. — Ben Lawers. — Fl. July. Perennial. 



52. C. Sddleri (Cold Sedge).— A small, tufted, and slightly 

 creeping species, 3 — 12 in. high, with slender stems bearing i or 2 

 leaves, and numerous long, flat, broad radical leaves ; spikelets 

 4 — 6, spindle-shaped, rich dark brown, the terminal one stamin- 

 ate, the upper one sessile, the lower long-stalked and becoming 

 pendulous ; fruit with a long, slender, ciliate, 2-fid beak. — Wet 

 turf. Glen Callater, Aberdeenshire.— Fl. August. Perennial. 



53. C. capilldris (Dwarf Capillary Sedge). — A tufted species ; 

 stems 3 — 9 in. high, slender, smooth, longer than the soft, recurved 

 leaves ; staminate spikelet terminal, small ; pistillate spikelets 2 or 

 3, drooping, on long hair-like stalks, .pale-coloured, loose, few- 

 flowered, seldom 6 lines long ; lower bracts enclosing several 

 peduncles ; glumes ovate, obtuse, with membranous edges, as long 

 as the beaked fruit; styles 3-cleft. — Mountains in the north; 

 local. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



54. C. pendula (Great Drooping Sedge). — A tufted species, 

 without runners ; stems stout, triangular, leafy, 3 — 6 feet high ; 

 leaves long, nearly h in. broad ; spikelets 4 — 6 in. long, numerous, 

 drooping ; the stalks of the pistillate ones almost concealed in the 

 sheaths of the long, leafy bracts ; glumes ovate-lanceolate, brown, 

 with green keel ; styles 3-clert ; fruit small, ovoid, with short beak. 

 — Wet woods ; frequent. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



55. C. strigosa (Loose-spiked Wood Sedge). — A tufted, creeping 

 plant ; stems i — 2 feet high, 3-angled, smooth, leafy ; leaves 

 short, broad, pale, flaccid ; spikelets slender, drooping, i — 3 in. 

 long, the lower pistillate ones on long stalks ; flowers many, lax ; 

 bracts leafy, short, with long sheaths ; fruit tapering at both ends, 



