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below, gl. shorter than the fruit. E. B. 806. Schk. C. 14. H. a. 

 28. R. 214. St. 6 12 in. high, triquetrous, nearly smooth. 

 Lowermost spikelet often with a short bract. Gl. ovate, mem- 

 branous, reddish with a green keel and white edges. Ripe fr. 

 greenish, stellate. Boggy places. P. V. VI. 



21. C. elongata (L.) ; spikelets many oblong approximate, 

 fr. patent oblong-acuminate plane-convex with many ribs on both 

 sides, beak almost entire with rough edges, nut linear-oblong 

 tapering below beak very short style persistent, gl. shorter than 

 the fruit, bracts none or one very short. E. B. 1920. Schk. E. 25. 

 H. a. 32. jR. 218. St. 12 feet high, triquetrous. Gl. ovate, 

 dark brown with a green keel and whitish edges, obtuse, some- 

 times apiculate. Upper spikelets crowded, lower lax but not 

 distant. /3. C. Gebhardi (R.); smaller, spikelets short panicled. 

 Marshes, rare. P. VI. E. I. 



22. C. curta (Good.); spikelets 4 6 elliptical approximate, 

 fr. erect acute plane-convex faintly striate, beak short notched 

 not split rough at the edges, nut elliptical beak very short 

 style persistent, glumes ovate shorter than the fruit. E. B. 1386. 

 Schk. C. 13. C. canescens Linn. 1 ? R. 206. St. a foot high, 

 triquetrous, smooth except at the top. Lowermost spikelet 

 often with a setaceous bract. Glumes membranous, whitish with 

 a green keel, blunt, apiculate. Fr. whitish. Bogs. P. VI. 



23. C. vitilis (Fr.) ; spikelets 4 8 ovate or oblong approxi- 

 mate, fr. erect ovate plane-convex faintly striate, beak short split 

 to its base externally rough at the edges, " nut elliptical," glumes 

 ovate shorter than the fruit. C. curta /3. alpicola Wahl. C. 

 Persoonii Sieb., R. 206. Creeping. St. 612 in. high, trique- 

 trous, smooth except at the top. Lowermost spikelet often with 

 a setaceous bract. GL membranous, brown with a white margin. 

 Mountains. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 



44 Spikes fuscous. 



24. C. lagoplna (Wahl.); spikelets 34 roundish-elliptical 

 contiguous terminal one longer, fr. erect elliptical acuminate 

 plane-convex narrowed below nearly entire at the point with 

 smooth edges, nut elliptical tipped with the persistent style, gl. 

 ovate nearly as long as the fruit. H. a. 24. R. 204. C. lepo- 

 rina Linn. Fl. Lap. not Fl. Suec. E. B. S. 2815. St. 48 in. 

 high, smooth, triangular. Glumes reddish with the edges paler. 

 Fr. yellow. Loch na Gar, and Cairn Toul, Aberdeenshire. 

 P. VIII. S. 



25. C. ovalis (Good.) ; spikelets about 6 oval contiguous, fr. 

 erect ovate-attenuate plane-convex narrowed below bifid at th^ 



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