226 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



May. This species was discovered new to England by the writer in two places 

 near Seaford (Sussex) some years ago. 



C. longiseta Brot. = C. Linkii Schk. Root-stock tufted. Stems 

 very slender, triquetrous. Leaves often longer than the stems, very narrow 

 (^-2 mm.), tufted. Spikelets 2-4, pale green, sessile or the lower ones peduncled, 

 in a loose spike, the males being at the top. Glumes acuminate. Leaf-like 

 bracts exceeding the stem. Stigmas 3. Fruit greenish, elliptical-triquetrous, 

 with short beak shorter than the glume. 



Dry woods and hill-sides. April-June. 



C. oedispostyla Duval-Jouve. Somewhat similar to the last in habit and in 

 habitat. Stem much exceeded by the long narrow leaves. Spikelets solitary, 

 few flowered on long filiform peduncles, sometimes springing from near the base. 

 Bracts none, and replaced by glumes with a long leaf-like point. Stigmas 3. 

 Fruit greenish, glabrous, ovoid trigonous, obtuse, shorter than the glume. 



Dry, sandy woods. April- May. 



C. Halleriana Asso. Stems about as long as the leaves (2-3 mm. broad). 

 Male spikelet solitary, terminal, oblong, reddish. Female spikelets 2-5, globular, 

 the lower one springing from the base on a very long filiform peduncle. Bracts 

 sheathing, with leaf-like point. Glumes acuminate, scarious. Stigmas 3. Fruit 

 fawn-grey colour, obovate trigonous, strongly nerved, and with very short beak. 



Dry places and stony woods, fairly common. February-June. 



C. serrulata Blvon. This largely takes the place of C. glauca which is 

 less common on the Mediterranean littoral. Plant glaucous, with stoloniferous 

 root-stock. Leaves scabrous, 2-5 mm. wide. Male spikelets 1-3, linear-oblong ; 

 females 2-3 cylindrical, erect, shortly peduncled, brownish. Glumes green, 

 ovate-acuminate. Fruit elliptical lanceolate, shorter than the glume. 



Stony places and hill-sides, common. April-June. 



C. hispida Will. A tall robust sedge, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves long, very stiff, 

 5-10 mm. broad, scabrous. Male spikelets 3-5 cylindrical, brown; females 3-4 

 thicker, very dense, erect, subsessile, partly white and brown. Glumes greenish- 

 brown, lanceolate aristate. Stigmas 3. Fruit green, hispid, obovate compressed, 

 ciliate, with beak shorter than the glume. 



Ditches and marshes, April-June. 



C. olbiensis Jord. A glabrous species, 1-2 ft. high, near C. panicea 

 L., with short, thick, tufted root-stock. Stem curved at the top, triquetrous. 

 Leaves long, 4-8 mm. broad, scabrous. Male spikelet solitary, linear, reddish ; 

 females 2-3 oblong, rather loose, short peduncled. Bracts sheathing, often as 

 long as the stem. Glumes whitish, with green keel. Stigmas 3. Fruit pale rust 

 colour, ovoid-trigonous, attenuated at both ends and having a short truncate beak. 

 Dry woods and other places. April-June. 



The following may be briefly mentioned : C. disticha Huds., rather rare 

 in damp places ; C. vulpina L., common ; C. muricataL., C. divulsa Good., 

 and C. remota, all fairly common; C. leporina L. and C. depressa Lk., 

 damp woods in the Esterel ; C. stficta Good., C. vulgaris Fries, and C. 

 acuta Fries, in damp places; C. glatica Murr., commoner in the north part 

 of the district than near the coast; C. riparia Curt, and C. acutiformis 

 Ehrh., by water ; C. hirtaL., in damp meadows ; C. tomentosa L., in woods 

 and meadows, chiefly on limestone; C. humilis Ley., on the summit of Mont 

 Faron near Toulon; C. praecox Jacq., C. nitida Host., sandy, grassy places, 

 very rare; C. panicea L., moist woods and meadows; C. depauperata Good., 

 C. silvatica Huds., and C. Pseudocyperus L., all rare ; C. pendula Huds., 

 not uncommon in damp, shady places and by water; C. distans L. and C. 

 punctata Gaud., damp places; C. pallescens L., in mountain woods of the 

 Esterel, rare ; C. extensa Good., common on damp sands and marshes near 

 the sea; C. flava L. and C. (Ederi Ehrh., both rare in damp, sandy places. 



In addition to the above, most of which occur in both Departments, there are 

 a few more species which are recorded from les Alpes-Marit., excluding those 



