Ji6 GLUMACE,* 



flowers often at a little distance from one another ; bracts with 

 short leafy tips ; glumes brown. Marshy places and wet meadows ; 

 common. Fl. June. Perennial. 



38. C. vaginata (Short Brown - spiked Sedge). Similar to 

 C. fanicea, of which it is probably an Alpine form. It has the 

 sheaths of the bracts looser, the spikelets darker and few-flowered, 

 and the fruits more distinctly tapering into a beak. Mountains of 

 Scotland. Fl. July. Perennial. 



39. C. limosa (Narrow-leaved Mud-Sedge). Rootstock creeping; 

 stems slender, 3-12 inches high ; leaves narrow ; spikelets 2 or 3, 

 the terminal one male, J-i inch long, the others female, - inch 

 long, on slender stalks, drooping, rather loose ; bracts leafy ; 

 glumes rather dark brown ; fruits scarcely pointed, not distinctly 

 beaked. Bogs ; rare. Fl. June. Perennial. 



40. C. irrigua (Broad-leaved Mud-Sedge). Closely related to 

 the last, but it is not so slender ; the leaves are much broader, 

 the bracts longer, and the male spikelet is less erect. Bogs in the 

 north ; rare. Fl. June. Perennial. 



41. C. rariflora (Loose-flowered Mud-Sedge). Similar to C. li- 

 mosa, but the glumes are almost black and are more obtuse, and 

 there are only 5 or 6 fruits in each spikelet. Bogs on mountains in 

 Scotland. Fl. June. Perennial. 



42. C. capillaris (Capillary Sedge). Stems slender, densely 

 tufted, without runners, 3-9 inches high ; leaves narrow, rigid ; 

 terminal spikelets male, small ; female spikelets 2 or 3, on long 

 thread-like stalks, rather pale, loose-flowered, seldom inch long ; 

 bracts shortly leafy ; glumes very membranous on the edge ; fruits 

 10 or 12 in each spikelet, beaked. Alpine meadows and moist rocks 

 in the north ; not uncommon. Fl. June. Perennial. 



43. C. slrigosa (Loose-spiked Wood-Sedge). This resembles 

 C. sylvatica (No. 65), but the female spikelets are much longer 

 and more slender, usually about 2 inches long, their stalks are 

 much shorter, the flowers are placed at some distance from one 

 another, and the fruits have not the long beak of C. sylvatica. 

 Woods and thickets ; rare. Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



44. C. pendula (Great Pendulous Sedge). A robust plant with 

 triangular leafy stems 3-5 feet high ; leaves long, often nearly \ inch 

 broad ; spikelets 4-6 inches long, more or less drooping, the ter- 

 minal one male, and the 3 or 4 others female, placed at some dis- 

 tance below, their stalks almost hidden in the sheaths of the long 

 leafy bracts ; glumes brown with a green centre. Woods and 

 shady places ; rather common. Fl. May. Perennial. 



