460 97. CYPERACE^. 



22. C. canes' cens (L.) ; spikelets 4 6 elliptic contiguous,/;*. 

 erect acute plane-convex faintly striate, beak short notched not 

 split rough at the edges, nut elliptic beak very short, style per- 

 sistent, glumes ovate shorter than the fruit. E. IB. 1386. Schk. 

 C. 13. It. 206. C. curta. Good. St. a foot high, triquetrous, 

 smooth except at the top. Lowermost spikelet often with a 

 setaceous bract. Glumes membranous, whitish with a green 

 keel, blunt, apicujate. Fr. whitish, [c. lielvola (Blytt) (C. can- 

 esrensXlagopina?) is recorded from Locli-na-Gar.] 13ogs. P. VI. 



E. S, I. 



23. C. vit'ilis (Fr.) T ; spikelets 4 8 ovate or oblong contiguous, 

 fr. erect ovate plane-convex faintly striate, beak short split to its 

 base externally roug-h at the edges, " nut elliptic," glumes ovate 

 shorter than the fruit. C. curta j3. alpicola Wahl. C. Persoonii 

 8ieb.. R. 206. Creeping. St. 6 12 in. high, triquetrous, 

 smooth except at the top. Lowermost spikelet often with a 

 setaceous bract. Gl. membranous, brown with a white margin. 

 Mountains. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 



44 Spikes fuscous. 



24. C. laf/opina (Wahl.) ; spikelets 3 4 roundish-elliptic 

 contiguous terminal one longer, fr. erect elliptic acuminate 

 plane-convex narrowed below nearly entire at the point with 

 smooth edges, nut elliptic tipped with the persistent style, gl. 

 ovate nearly as long as the fruit. H. a. 24. R. 205. C. lepo- 

 rina Linn Pi. Lap. not Fl. Suec.E. B. S. 2815. St. 48 in. 

 high, smooth, triangular. Glumes reddish with the edges paler. 

 Fr. yellow. Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire, Invernesshire. P. 

 VIII. S. 



25. C. leporina (L.) ; spikelets about 6 oval contiguous, Jr. 

 erect ovate-attenuate plane-convex narrowed below bifid at the 

 point with membranous edges serrulate above, nut elliptic with a 

 short cylindrical beak ending in a persistent style, gl. lanceo- 

 late as loner as the fruit. E. B. 306. Schk. B. 8. ^ R. 211. 

 C. ovalis (Good.) ed. viii. St. 1- 2 feet high, triangular, 

 smooth, or roughish above. Gl. acute, brown with a paler mem- 

 branous margin. Fr. yellowish. [Sometimes with crowded spikes 

 (var. capitata, Sond.) or, in woods, paler with smaller spikes (var. 

 drgyroglochin Horn,) or with bracts elongated much exceeding the spike 

 (var. bracteata Sy. ).] Meadows. P. VII. E. S. I. 



1 Herr Kiikenthal apparently refers the Scotch plant to C. canesccns 

 var. robustior (Blytt). See J. ofB. xxxvi. (1898) p. 75. 



