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top. C. ccespitosa Sm., E. J5., 1507. C. vulgaris (Fries) ed. viii. 

 St. about a foot high. L. slender, not keeled. Bracts without 

 sheaths. Spikes near together, short. Gl. blunt, shorter than 

 fr., purple ; keel slender, pale green. Fr. greenish or with a 

 purple tinge. Nut rather broader than long. [A slender caespitose 

 form with narrow convolute 1. is C. vulgaris var. juncella (Fr.).j 

 Marshes. P. V. VI. E.S.I. 



[C. Gibsoni (Bab.) ; fr. lanceolate acute, nut broadly obovoid. 



A. N. H. xi. t. 5. St. 6 8 in. high. Perianth nearly twice as 

 long as the nut, gradually narrowed from below the middle to the 

 top. Perhaps a monstrosity of C. vulgaris. Hebden Bridge, 

 Yorkshire ! Not recently found. P. VI.] E. 



32. C. triner'vis (Degl.) ; spikes erect, .male 2 4 (rarely 1), fertile 2 

 5 short stout often male at the top sessile, bracts sheathing with brown 

 auricles, exceeding the spikes, fr. ellipsoid-oblong compressed usiially 

 strongly 3 5-veined with very short beak, nut narrowing to the beak, at. 

 trigonous strongly ribbed smooth. Kunze Riedgr. t. 1. Stoloniferous. 

 Kootstock stout. St. 5 15 in. caespitose. L. faintly keeled often ex- 

 ceeding the spikes. Bracts broadening into strongly-ribbed auricled sheaths. 

 Spikes near together very stout. Gl. bluntish narrower than in sp. 31 

 shorter than or equalling the fr., keel broad greenish-white. Fr. brownish- 

 green, nut longer than broad. A plant from Ormesby, Norf., 1869, Mr. 

 H. G. G-lasspoole, has been referred to this sp. P. VI. 



tt Nut with 3 angles. Stigmas 3, rarely 2. 

 \ Fruit glabrous. Terminal spike male at its base. 



33. C. alpina (Sw.) ; spikes 1 4 roundish or oblong conti- 

 guous nearly sessile, fr. obovoid veinless rough above with a 

 short notched beak, gl. acutish falling short of fr., nut obovoid 

 triquetrous blunt with a short cylindrical beak, bract scarcely 

 overtopping the spikes, st. triangular rough towards the top. 



B. t. 35(3. C. Vahlii E. E. 8. 2(566. Schk. Gg. 94 & Ppp. 154. 

 R. 235. St. 6 12 in. high, erect. Gl. brown or black. Glen 

 Callater and Glen Fiagh/Clova. Glen Lyon. P. VII. E. 



34. C. fus'ca (All.) ; spikes 3 4 oblong sessile contiguous, 

 the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, fr. oval blunt com- 

 pressed (ultimately trigonous) bidentate roughish above veined, 

 gl. cuspidate lower exceeding fr., nut obovoid trigonous blunt 

 ttriculate, lower bract leanike. E. B. S. 2885. H. b. 11. Schk. 

 X. & Gg. 76. R. 235. B. 438. C. Buxbaumii (Wahl.) ed. viii. 

 St. 1 2 feet high, triquetrous, rough. Sheaths of the I. con- 

 nected by netlikejilaments. Gl. nearly black, with a green keel 

 prolonged into a cuspidate point. Fr. glaucous green. Arisaig, 

 W. Inverness. Mr. W. F. Miller. Harbour Island near Toom 

 Bridge, Lough Neagh. P. VI. S. I. 



