472 97. CYPERACEJE. 



elliptic, st. triquetrous with rouo-h angles. E. B. 242. Si-hk. 

 Mm. 102. H. b. 56. R. 275. St. 23 feet high. Male spike 

 often with some fertile flowers. Fertile spike 1 j 2 in. lonir. 

 Damp places, rare. P. VI. E.I. 



tttt Beak of hairy fr. terete or compressed with patent cusps. 

 Male spikes 2 or more. 



67. C. jilifor'mis (L.) ; male spikes 2, fertile 3 or 4 remote 

 erect sessile oblong, bracts leaflike lowermost slightly sheathing, 

 gl. oblong-ovate cuspidate and ciliate at the point, fr. downy 

 oblong-ovoid narrowed into an obliquely truncate beak with 2 

 lateral points, nut narrowly elliptic subtrigonous, 1. slender chan- 

 nelled.^. & 904. Schk. K. 45. B. 132. R. 265. St. 2 feet 

 high. L. with filamentous sheaths below. Lowest spike rarely 

 stalked. Peat-bogs, rare. P. V. E. S. 1. 



68. C. hir'ta (L.) ; male spikes 2 or 3, fertile 2 or 3 remote 

 erect oblong-cylindrical stalked, bracts leaflike the lower with 

 long sheaths nearly equalling the peduncles, gl. elliptic-lanceo- 

 late with long slender ciliate points, fr. hairy oblong-ovate nar- 

 rowed into a deeply divided beak, nut obovate narrowed below 

 triangular, /. flat hairy. E. B. 685. Schk. Uu. 108. H. b. 58. 

 R. 257. St. 1J 2 feet high, leafy. L. and sheaths shaggy, 

 rarely glabrous. Fr. tawny. Occasionally the spikes are com- 

 pound at the base and very long-stalked, and the gl. long. 

 [Var. ebracteata (Syme) has crowded spikes, 1. and gl. glabrous and 

 bracts without foliaceous lamina?. A monstrosity?] Wet places. 

 P. IV. Hammersedge. E. S. I. 



ttttt Beak of fr. glabrous, terete, striate, with patent cusps, 

 or 2-toothed. Male spikes many, rarely 1. Bracts not 

 sheathing. 



\ Male spike 1. Stigmas 2. Beak offr. 2-toothed. 



69. C. pul'la (Good.) ; male spike 1 (rarely 2), fertile 13 

 roundish-ovoid lower one stalked bracteate sheathless erect,/?-. 

 ovoid obscurely veined inflated, beak short, nut roundish mucro- 

 nate, gl. bluntish, E. B. 2045. Schk. Cc. 88. C. vesicaria v. 

 alpigcna Fr. St. 6 8 in. high. Gl. dark purple tipped with 

 white, midrib dark purple. Fr. dark purple paler at the base, 

 longer than the gl., stalked. C. saxatilis (Linn. Herb.) ; but 

 Andersson says that the true plant is C. riyida. Wet parts of 

 the higher Scottish mountains. P. VII. S. 



70. C. Grahdmi (Boott) : male spikes 1 or 2 slender acute, 

 fertile 2 or 3 ovate blunt lower one stalked bracteate sheathless, 



