466 97. CYPERACEJB. 



-J4. C.pen'dula (Huds.) ; fertile spikes drooping about o distant 

 cylindrical very long densely flowered, bracts leaflike lower ones 

 with sheaths nearly equalling the flowerstalks upper scarcely 

 sheathing, fr. elliptic subtrigonous tumid ivith short trigonous 

 emarginate beak, nut elliptic triangular. E. B. 2315. Schk. Q. 

 60. JR. 243. St. 3 6 feet high, round at the angles above. 

 Fertile spikes often 3 or 4 in. long, arched : upper ones frequently 

 with male fl. at the tip. Gl. ovate inucronate, brown with a 

 green keel. Fr. green, ciliate at the mouth. Damp woods. P. 

 V. E. S. I. 



JJ| Fruit downy, hairy or scabrous. Bracts sheathing. L. in 

 sterile tufts. Male spike solitary. 



45. C. humilis (Leyss.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 remote about 3- 

 Jlowered enclosed in the membranous leafless bracts, fr. obovoid 



subtrigonous narrowed below with an entire oblique mouth not 

 obovoid, trigonous, with a short beak. H. b. 15. C. dandestina 

 Good., E. B. 21 24. Schk. K. 43. R. 239. St. about 2 in. high, 

 erect, concealed amongst the leaves. Bracts large, wholly mem- 

 branous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. L. all radical, linear, 

 channelled, rough. Limestone hills in Hants, Wilts, Somerset, 

 and Dorset. P. IV. E. 



46. C. ornithop 'oda (W.) ; fertile spikes 3 near together suberect 

 exceeding male spike, bracts membranous leafless, fr. pyriform 

 trigonous with a subemarginate mouth exceeding the glumes, 

 nut elliptic subtrigonous shortly stalked with a minute beak. 

 J. ofB. xiii. t. 164. R. 240. St. 35 in. high, scarcely exceed- 

 ing the flat bluntish radical leaves. Bracts much falling short 

 of fertile spikes. Millers Dale, Derbyshire. P. V. VII. E. 



47. C. digitdta (L.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 distant linear erect 

 lax, bracts membranous obliquely truncate, lowermost with a seta- 

 ceous leajlike point, fr. obovoid trigonous narrowed below equalling 

 gl., beak short nearly entire, "nut elliptic-oblong triangular 

 shortly -stalked and shortly-beaked." E. B. 615. Schk. H. 38. 

 H. b. 14. St. 6 8 in. high, erect, sheathed at the base, leafless, 

 taller than the flat radical leaves. Woods on limestone, rare. 

 P. IV. V. E. 



\\\\ Fr. hairy or downy or scabrous. Bracts not sheathing 

 (except slightly in No, 52). f Male spike 1. 



48. C. ver'na (Chaix) ; fertile spikes 1 3 oblong-ovoid near 

 together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest leaflike and slightly 



