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ovate, tumid, smooth fruit. (Stem a foot high ; spikelets sil- 

 very-white.) 



Hal. Bogs, common in this neighbourhood. Lambertori 



Moor. Bog below Shoreswood. Felkington Bog, &c. 



June. If. 



5. C. avails, spikelets about 6, oval, crowded, alternate, with a 

 bractea under the lowermost ; fruit lanceolate, rough-edged, stria- 

 ted, nearly entire, the length of the lanceolate acute scales. 

 (Stem 12-18 inches high. Spikelets greenish-brown.) 



Hab. Marshy places. Yarrow-haugh ; Doddington Moor. 

 &c. June. 11 



6. C. remota, spikelets several, solitary, simple, remote, nearly 

 sessile ; bracteas very long, overtopping the stem ; fruit ovate, 

 with a slightly cloven beak. (A foot high, slender.) 



Hab. Moist shady places on the banks of Wooler Water, 

 below Langley-ford. June. 7/ 



7. C. arenaria, spikelets numerous, crowded into an oblong 

 spike, upper ones chiefly of barren, lower of fertile florets; brac- 

 teas membranous, lower ones leafy ; stem triangular ; leaves 

 flat ; fruit winged. (8-12 inches high.) 



Hab. Sandy sea-shore abundant, by its long spreading 

 roots binding the sand together, which would other- 

 wise be gradually, but certainly, carried towards the 

 interior, covering up the fertile plains with its ste- 

 rile particles, and rendering them unfit for the habita- 

 tion of mankind. June. 7/ 



8. C. intermedia, spikelets numerous, crowded into an oblong 

 dense spike, the lowermost and terminal ones fertile, interme- 

 diate ones barren ; stem upright, triangular (12-18 inches high.) 



Hab. Marshy watery meadows, frequent. Castle hills, 

 &c. June. 11 



9. C. vulpina, spike thrice compound, dense, obtuse ? fruit 

 spreading, with a notched rough-edged beak; scales pointed: 

 angles of the stem compressed, very sharp. (1-2 feet, firm ; 

 spike large, greenish.) 



Hab. Watery places. Sides of the river from the Old 

 Castle to New- water Haugh, sparingly. Plentiful at 

 the sides of the pond at Goswick, &c. June. ?/ 



