SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 331 



ft Styles trifid, or three-cleft. 



C. distans : steins tufted, slender, 1-2 feet high; leaves 

 flat, rather narrow ; spikelets few and far apart, the terminal 

 one male, the others female, oblong-cylindrical, ^-1 inch long, 

 stalked, the stalks enclosed in the long sheaths of the leafy 

 bracts ; glumes brown. Marshes and wet moors. Fl. June, 

 July. 



C. capillaris : stems slender, densely tufted, 3-9 inches 

 high, longer than the leaves; terminal spikelets male, small ; 

 female spikelets 2-3, much lower down, on long threadlike 

 peduncles, pale coloured, loose-flowered ; glumes very scarious 

 on the edges. Alpine meadows. Fl. June. 



C. limosa : stem slender, one foot high ; leaves narrow ; 

 terminal male spikelet J-l inch long ; females 1 or 2, on slen- 

 der stalks, drooping, rather loose ; bracts leafy ; glumes rather 

 dark-brown, ovate, the upper ones pointed. Bogs arid moun- 

 tain marshes. Fl. June. [See also pp. 73-76.] 



(299) Schcenus. BOG-RUSH. 



S. nigricans : stems stiff, rush-like, about a foot high ; leaves 

 short, stiff, almost radical; spikelets several, dark, shining 

 brown, almost black, closely sessile, in compact terminal 

 heads, with an involucre of 2-3 broad brown bracts, one of 

 which has a stiff, erect, leaf-like point. Bogs and marshes, 

 chiefly near the sea. Fl. June. 



(300) Blysmus. 



B. compressus : stems 6-8 inches high ; leaves flat, keeled ; 

 spike terminal, about an inch long, consisting of 10-12 oblong 

 6-8 flowered spikelets, closely sessile on opposite sides of the 

 axis, the broad, brown, glume-like outer bract shorter than 

 the mature spikelet. Bogs and marshes. Fl. June, July. 



