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drical beak. E. B. 1505. Schk. LI. 100. H. b. 33. St. 12 

 ft. high, erect, smooth. Fertile spikes about 2. Gl. oblong, more 

 or less acute, dark brown with a green keel and membranous 

 pale margins. Lowermost bract about as long as its spike, the 

 rest shorter, sheaths close. Marshy places. P. VI. 



38. C. vaginata (Tausch !) ; fertile spikes erect remote on ex- 

 serted stalks with distant fl., bracts sheathing scarcely leaflike, 

 gl. bluntish,/r. ovate triquetrous glabrous veinless with a short 

 terete smooth very obliquely truncate and emarginate beak, nut 

 elliptical triangular " with a beak slightly thickened upwards."- 

 H. b. 17. Kunze Riedg. 15. C. phaostachya Sm., E. B. S. 

 2731. C. Meilichoferi Sm., E. B. 2293. St. 56 in. high, 

 smooth. Fertile spikes 12. Glumes bluntish. Bracts with 

 funnelshaped sheaths. Highland mountains. P. VII. S. 



39. C. limosa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 upon very long stalks 

 drooping ovate densely -flowered with occasionally a few barren 

 fl. at their top, bracts auricled slender strongly keeled, gl. ovate 

 mucronate, fr. roundish-obovate compressed strongly ribbed with 

 a very short entire beak, nut obovate bluntly trigonous with a 

 beak, L narrow linear complicately -channeled rough at the edges 

 throughout. . B. 2043. Schk. X. 78. H. b. 49. R. 238. 

 Creeping. St. 1 ft. high. L. and bracts very slender. Gl. pur- 

 ple, with a green keel, about as long as the pale fr. which is 

 broadest above the middle. Nut pale. Spongy bogs. P. VI. 



40. C. irrigua (Hoppe) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 drooping upon 

 long stalks oblong densely-flowered with occasionally a few 

 barren ft. at their base, bracts auricled leaflike rather broad 

 nearly flat, gl. ovate-lanceolate attenuate acute,/r. roundish-ovate 

 compressed faintly ribbed with a very short entire beak, nut ellip- 

 tical triangular with a beak, L linear flat smooth at the edges 

 except near the tip. E. B. S. 2895. H. b. 48. R. 238. Creep- 

 ing. St. a foot or more in height. L. and bracts 2 or 3 times 

 as broad as in the preceding. Gl. wholly purple, usually longer 

 than the pale fr. which is broadest below the middle. Nut pale. 

 Spongy bogs. Muckle Moss, Northumb. Terregles, Dum- 

 fries. Ben Mime near Loch Lomond. P. VI. E. S. 



41. C. rariflora (Sm.); fertile spikes 2 or 3 drooping upon 

 long stalks oblong few -flowered lax, bracts with very short sheaths, 

 gl. very broad blunt as long as the fr., fr. oblong with 3 blunt 

 angles, beak extremely short entire, nut roundish-oblong, 1. flat 

 rough-edged towards the tip. E. B. 2516. Creeping. St. 6 8 

 in. high, smooth. GL folded round the fr., dark brown ; midrib 

 pale, terminating in a minute apiculus. Fr. pale, faintly veined ; 

 uut darker. Elevated bogs. Highlands, rare. P VI, S, 



