96. CYPERACEJE. 



rather than C. acuia. Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire : said to be 

 now lost by drainage. P. VI. E. 



ft Nut with 3 angles. Stigmas 3, rarely 2. 

 Fruit glabrous. Terminal spike barren at its base. 



33. C. Valilii (Schk.) ; spikes 14 roundish or oblong conti- 

 guous nearly sessile, fr. obovate veinless scabrous above with a 

 short notched beak, gl. acutish falling short of fr., nut obovate 

 triquetrous blunt with a short cylindrical beak, bract scarcely 

 overtopping the spikes, st. triangular rough towards the top. 

 E.B. S.2666. Schk. Gg. 94. and Ppp. 154. R. 235. St. 6 12 

 in. high, erect. Gl. brown or black. Glen Callater and Glen 

 Fiagh, Clova. P. VII. S. 



34. C. Buxbaumii (Wahl.) ; spikes 3 4 oblong sessile conti- 

 guous, the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, fr. oval obtuse 

 compressed (ultimately trigonous} bidentate subscabrous above 

 veined, gl. cuspidate lower exceeding fr., nut obovate trigonous 

 blunt apiculate, lower bract leaflike. E. B. S. 2885. H. b. 1 1 . 

 Schk. X. arid Gg. 76. R. 235. C. canescens, Linn. Herb. St. 



2 feet high, triquetrous, rough. Sheaths of the I. connected 

 by netlike filaments. Gl. nearly black, with a green keel pro- 

 Ijnged into a cuspidate point. Fr. glaucous-green. Island near 

 Toom bridge in Lough Neagh. P. VI. I. 



35. C. atrata (L.) ; spikes 3 4 ovate-oblong shortly stalked 

 contiguous ultimately drooping, the lowest rather distant and 

 with a longer stalk, fr. elliptical veinless with a short terete 

 slightly notched beak, glumes acute, nut elliptical triquetrous 

 blunt apiculate, lower bract leaflike. E. B. 2U44. Schk. X. 77- 

 H. b. 8. R. 23/. St. 1 H ft. high, triangular, smooth. L. 

 flat, broad. Gl. dark purple; midrib slender, pale. Fr. yellowish. 

 Alpine rocks. P. A I. VII. E. S. 



^ Fruit glabrous. Terminal spike wholly barren, solitary. 



36. C. pallescens (L.); fertile spikes subpendulous ovate or 

 oblong with exserted stalks approximate, bracts leaflike, gl. mu- 

 cronate, fr. ovate-oblong convex on both sides veined obtuse, 

 beak 0, nut linear- elliptical narrowed at both ends trigonous. 

 E. B. 2185. Schk. Kk. 9.9. H. b. 44. St. slender, triquetrous, 

 rough above, 1 1 foot high. Spikes blunt, pale green; the 

 barren one sessile, darker. Marshy places. P. VI. 



37. C. panicea (L.) ; fertile spikes erect remote subcylindrical 

 on exserted stalks with distant Ji., bracts leaflike sheathing, gl. 

 rather acute, fr. ovate-subglobcse inflated veinless with a short 

 terete truncate beak, nut obovate-obloug trigonous with a cyliu- 



