468 97. CYPEKACE.E. 



rough upwards, erect. Beak of nut slightly swelling* upwards. 

 Fr. with copious white down, mouth very broad. Water-mea- 

 dows at Merston Measey, Wilts. Pasture, Fairford, E. Glos. 

 P. VI. E. 



ft Male spikes usually more than 1. 



53. C. flacca (Schreb.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 erect or drooping 

 cylindrical densely Howered long-stalked, bracts leaflike scarcely 

 sheathing, gl. ovate acute, fr. blunt elliptic reinless slightly 

 rough entire at the small point, nut roundish- ovate triangular. 

 H. b. 67. Schk. 0. P. 57. R. 269. E. B. 1506. C. recur ca 

 Huds., C. glauca (Scop.) ed. viii. Soboliferous. St. a foot or 

 more in height. Male spikes variable in number. Fertile spikes 

 often have a male fl. at the top. /3. C. Micheliana (Sm) ; gl. 

 blunt, fr. smaller. E. B. 2236. y. C. stictocarpa (Sin.) ; fertile 

 spikes ovate, fr. obovate dotted. J2. B. 8. 2772. Damp places. 

 P. VI. E. S. 1. 



** Beak of fr. long, ^-toothed or bifid. Nut with 3 angles. 

 Stigmas 3, rardy 2. (Sp. 54 74.) 



t Beak of fruit terete. Terminal spike male. 



54. C. atrofnsca (Schk.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 4 upon short stalks 

 ovoid densely flowered, bracts scarcely leaflike or sheathing, 1. 

 ovate acute, fr. elliptic compressed rour/h-edyed with a cloven 

 beak, nut elliptic triangular on a long stalk, root fibrous. E. B. 

 2404. Schk. Y. 82. H. b. 47. C. ustuldta (Wahl.) ed. viii. 

 St. 3 10 in. high. L. very short, broad. Gl. dark purple with 

 a slender pale midrib. Fr. dark purple, paler below. Nut 

 fuscous. Breadalbane Hills, Perthshire. P. VII. S. 



ft Beak of fruit plane-convex. Male spike 1, or rarely 2. 

 Fruit glabrous. Bracts sheathing, leaflike. 



55. C. Sadler' i (Linton) ; fertile spikes fusiform upper sessile 

 lower ultimately pendulous long-stalked, bracts sheathing leaf- 

 like, gl. acute, fr. lanceolate triquetrous gradually narrowed into 

 a ciliate-serrate bifid beak, nut ovate triquetrous, st. triangular 

 smooth. C. friaida ed. viii. Edin. Hot. Tr. xii. t. 2. /. of U. 

 xiii. t. 159. St. 3 12 in. high. L. broad, parallel-sided when 

 voung. Above Loch Ceann-mor, Aberdeenshire, and in Glen 

 Dole. P. VIII. S. 



56. C.jftdva (L.) ; fertile spikes roundish-oval subsessile, low- 

 est spike with a nearly included stalk, bracts leaflike with short 

 sheaths, gl. blunt, fr. ovate inflated ribbed smooth narrowed 



