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a very short entire beak, nut obovoid bluntly trigonous with a 

 beak, L narrow linear channelled rough at the edges throughout. 

 E. B. 2043. R. 238. B. 216. Creeping. St. 1 ft. high. 

 L. and bracts very slender. Gl. purple, usually with a green 

 keel, about as long as the pale fr. which is broadest above the 

 middle. Nut pale. Spongy bogs. P. VI. E. S. I. 



40. C. magcllan'ica (Lam.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 drooping upon 

 long stalks oblong densely-flowered loith occasionally a few 

 male ft. at their base, bracts auricled leaflike rather broad nearly 

 fiat, gl. ovoid-lanceolate attenuate acute, fr. roundish-ovoid com- 

 pressed faintly ribbed with a very short entire beak, nut elliptic 

 triangular with a beak, /. linear flat smooth at the edges except 

 near the tip. E. B. S. 2895. It. 238. B. 219. C. irrigua 

 (Iloppe) ed. viii. Creeping. St. a foot or more in height. 

 L. and bracts 2 or 3 times as broad as in the preceding. GL 

 wholly purple usually longer than the pale fr. which is broadest 

 below the middle. Nut pale. Spongy bogs in the North, rare. 

 P. VI. E. S. I. 



41. C. rariflora (Sm.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 drooping upon 

 long stalks oblong feiv-floweredlax, bracts with very short sheaths, 

 gl. very broad blunt as long as the fr., fr. oblong with 3 blunt 

 angles, beak extremely short entire, nut roundish-oblong, 1. flat 

 rough-edged towards the tip. E. B. 2516. B. 217. Creeping. 

 St. 6 8 in. high, smooth. GL folded round thefr., dark brown ; 

 midrib pale, terminating in a minute apiculus. Fr. pale, faintly 

 veined ; nut darker. Elevated bogs in the Highlands. P. VI. S. 



42. C. capilldris (L.) ; fertile spikes drooping upon long half- 

 included stalks few-flowered lax, one bract sheathing several stalks, 

 gl. blunt, fr. oblong trigonous turgid narrowed below veinless 

 with a slender membranous beak, nut obovoid triquetrous blunt 

 with a short beak. E. B. 2069. Schk. 0. 56. H. b. 53. ^.241. 

 St. very slender, 2 6 in. high, smooth. Peduncles rough, 

 several usually enclosed in one sheath. Gl. short, broad, blunt, 

 midrib not reaching the, tip, falling short of the small smooth 

 brown fruit. Nut pale. Root tufted. Teesdale. Scottish 

 Highlands and near sea-level in Sutherland. P. VI. E. S. 



43. C. strigosx (Huds.) ; fertile spikes drooping about 4 distant 

 rather long slender lax lower with exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 

 sheathing, fr. oblong -lanceolate narrowed at both ends trigonous 

 veined with an obliquely truncate mouth, nut elliptic triangular 

 punctured, 1. broad. E. B. 994. Schk. N. 53.--St. 2 feet high. 

 Sheaths nearly covering the peduncles. Gl. elliptic-lanceolate, 

 diaphanous, greenish down the back. Groves and thickets, rare. 

 P. V. VI. E. S, I. 



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