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bridge plentiful, and in some places not more than 2 or 

 3 inches high. May. 11 



24. C. paludosa, stigmas 3; catkins cylindrical, bluntish, erect, 

 the fertile ones with taper-pointed scales ; fruit ovate, triangu- 

 lar, compressed, with a notched beak. (Stem 2 feet high, acute- 

 ly triangular, rough ; leaves broad : bracteas very long, foliace- 

 ous. without sheaths.) 



Hob. Boggy meadows and banks of ditches frequent. 



May. 



25. C. l<jsvigat^ catkins cylindrical, barren one solitary, fertile 

 ones stalked ; scales all pointed ; sheaths very long ; fruit trian- 

 gular, with a cloven beak. (Bright green, smooth, 2 feet high.) 



Hab. Wooded banks of Wooler Water below Langley- 



ford. June. ^ 



( . amputtacea, fertile catkins cylindrical, elongated, nearly 

 sessile: scales all lanceolate, acute; sheaths none ; fruit inflat- 

 ed, globose, with a linear cloven beak. (1 or 2 feet high, some- 

 what glaucous.) 



JIab. Bogs, common in this neighbourhood. Grangebuni 

 mill-pond. Sides of the Whiteadder below theBridge. 

 Boggy field below the Old Lamberton toll. I^amberton 

 Moor. Haiden dean, \c. June. 11 



J7- C. hirta, herbage hairy; fertile catkins ovate-cylindrical, 

 remote; scales awned : sheaths ne:. g as the flower- 



stalks; fruit hairy, tumid, with a deeply-cloven beak; stem 

 rough-edged. (2 feet high.) 



Hab. Wet meadows and watery places frequent. June* ?/ 



