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sheathing, gl. broadly ovate acuminate with excurrent midrib,/)*. 

 ovoid-rhomboidal trigonous with an entire mouth, nut obovoid 

 narrowed below trigonous with prominent angles, base of the 

 style surrounded by a cuplike disk, soboliferous. E. It. 1099. 

 Schk. F. 27. H. b. 24. R. 261. C. prcecox (Jacq.) ed. viii. 

 St. 3 12 in. high. Lowermost spike often slightly stalked. 

 Dry places. P. IV. V. E. S. I. 



49. C. ericetorum (Poll.) ; fertile spikes 1 3 ovoid near to- 

 gether sessile, bracts clasping all membranous, yl. obovate very 

 blunt finely ciliate midrib not reaching the top, fir. obovoid tri- 

 gonous with a truncate beak, nut subglobose trigonous with no 

 terminal disk or prominent angles, soboliferous. E. B. S. 2971. 

 Schk. J. 42. H. b. 26. It. 262. C. ciliata Willd. Gl. brown 

 with a broad pale edge, all very blunt. St. 3 6 in. high. 

 On chalk. Norf., Sufi'., Cambridge. P. IV. V. E. 



50. C. montdna (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 3 ovoid crowded sessile, 

 bracts small membranous the lowest with an awlshaped point, 

 gl. of fertile spikes blunt notched and mucronate, fr. narrowed 

 below oblong-obovoid trigonous with a short notched beak, nut 

 oblong narrowed below with a pyramidal beak, root fibrous from 

 a shaggy thick branched rhizome. E. B. S. 2924. Schk. F. 29. 

 H. b. 21. It. 261. C. collina Willd. St. about a span long, 

 slender. L. narrow ; sheaths of lower 1. red. Gl. very dark ; 

 midrib narrowly yellowish. Fr. hairy, its beak purple. Heaths 

 and banks. P*. IV. V. E. 



51. C. pilulifera (L.) ; fertile spikes about 3 roundish near 

 together sessile, bracts small lowest scarcely leafiike awlshaped 

 not sheathing, gl. broadly ovate mucronate, fr. stalked subylobose 

 with a short bifid beak, nut subglobose subtrigonous narrowed 

 below, persistent base of style recurved, root fibrous. E. B. 885. 

 Schk. J. 39. It. 260. St. 612 in. long, slender, at length 

 decumbent. /3. longibracteata ( Lange) ; lowest bract very long 

 leaflike, upper bract long and slender, midrib of gl. excurrent, 

 nut fusiform. Var. Leesii (Ridl.) ed. viii. J. ofB. xix. t. 218. 

 Wet heaths. /3. Plumpton, Yorkshire. Glen Callater, Braemar. 

 On rocks in shade. P. V. E. S. I. 



52. C. tomentosa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 nearly sessile cy- 

 lindrical blunt, lowermost bracts leafiike with a very short sheath, 

 gl. broadly ovate acute, fr. obovoid subtrigonous scarcely beaked 

 slightly emaryinate, mil blunt trigonous narrowed below with a 

 short beak constricted at its base, soboliferous. E. B. 2046. Schk. 

 F. 28. H. b. 28. R. 263. St. a foot high, with 3 sharp angles, 



