464 97. CYPEEACE^ 1 . 



35. C. atrdta (L.) ; spikes 3 4 ovate-oblong shortly stalked 

 contiguous ultimately drooping, the lowest rather distant and 

 with a longer stalk, fr. elliptic reinless with a short terete 

 slightly notched beak, glumes acute, nut elliptic triquetrous blunt 

 ftpiculate, lower bract leaflike. E. B. 2044. Schk. X. 77. H. b. 8. 

 JR. 237. St. 1 1 J foot high, triangular, smooth. L. flat, broad, 

 Gl. dark purple ; midrib slender, pale. Fr. yellowish. Mr. H. C. 

 Watson mentions a form with the term, spike wholly male and 

 the fern, spikes cylindrical and 2 3 in. below it. Alpine rocks. 

 P. VI. VII. E. S. 



JJ Fruit glabrous. Terminal spike wholly male, solitary. 



36. C. pallescens (L.) ; fertile spikes subpendulous ovate or 

 oblong with exserted stalks contiguous, bracts leaflike, gl. mu- 

 cronate, fr. ovozd-oblonq convex on both sides veined blunt , beak 

 0, nut linear-elliptic trigonous. #. B. 2185. Sy. E. B. 1657. 

 Schk. Kk. 99. H. b. 44. St. slender, triquetrous, rough above 

 1 Ij foot high. Spikes blunt, pale greeny the barren one 

 sessile, darker. Marshy places. P. VI. E. S. I. 



37. C. panicea (L.) ; fertile spikes erect remote subcylindrical 

 on exserted stalks, bracts leaflike sheathing, gl. rather acute,/;-. 

 ovoid subglobose injlated veinless with a short terete truncate 

 beak, nut obo void-oblong trigonous with a cylindrical beak. 

 E. B. 1505. Schk. LI. 100. H. b. 33. St. 12 ft. high, erect, 

 smooth, obtuse-angled. Fertile spikes about 2. Gl. oblong, 

 more or less acute, dark brown with a green keel and mem- 

 branous pale margins. Lowermost bract about as long as its 

 spike, the rest shorter, sheaths close. [A form with the fruits 

 swollen and purplish towards the top is var. tumidula (Laest.).j Marshy 

 places. P. VI. E.S.I. 



38. C. ragindta (Tausch !) ; fertile spikes erect remote on ex- 

 serted stalks, bracts sheathing scarcely leaflike, gl. bluntish,/)'. 

 ovoid triquetrous glabrous veinless with a short terete smooth 

 very obliquely truncate and emarginate beak, nut elliptic tri- 

 angular " with a beak slightly thickened upwards." H. b. 17, 

 Kunze Riedqr. 15. B. 478. C. plmostachya Sm,, E. B. S. 

 2731. C. Meilichoferi Sm., E. B. 2293. St. 56 in. high, 

 smooth. Fertile spikes 1 2. Glumes bluntish. Bracts with 

 funnelshaped sheaths. Highland mountains. P. VII. S. 



39. C. linwsa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 upon very long stalks 

 drooping ovate densely-flou-ered (t with occasionally a few male 



Jl. at their top" bracts auvicled slender strongly keeled, gl. ovate 

 mucronate, fir. rou n dish -oboroid compressed strongly ribledvsith 



