374 96. CYP BRACED. 



+tt fruit glabrous. Several barren spikes. Fertile spikes 

 drooping. 



42. C. capillaris (L.) ; fertile spikes upon long stalks half in- 

 cluded few-flowered lax, one bract sheathing several flowerstalks, 

 gl. blunt, fr. oblong trigonous turgid narrowed below veinless 

 terminating in a slender membranous beak, nut obovate trique- 

 trous blunt with a short beak. E. B. 2069. Schk. O. 56. H. 

 b. 53. R. 241. St. very slender, 2 6 in. high, smooth. Pedun- 

 cles rough, several usually inclosed in one sheath. Gl. short, 

 broad, blunt, midrib not reaching the tip, falling short of the 

 small smooth brown fruit. Nut pale. Root tufted. Teesdale. 

 Scottish Highlands. P. VI. E. S. 



43. C. strigosa (Huds.) ; fertile spikes about 4 distant rather 

 long slender lax lower with exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 

 sheathing, /r. oblong-lanceolate narrowed at both ends trigonous 

 veined with an obliquely truncate mouth, nut elliptical triangular 

 punctured, 1. broad. E. B. 994. Schk. N. 53. St. 2 feet high. 

 Sheaths covering nearly the whole length of the peduncles. Gl. 

 elliptic-lanceolate, diaphanous, greenish down the back. Groves 

 and thickets, rare. P. V. VI. 



44. C. pendula (Huds.) ; fertile spikes about 5 distant cylin- 

 drical very long densely-flowered, bracts leaflike lower ones 

 with sheaths nearly equalling the flowerstalks upper scarcely 

 sheathing, fr. elliptical subtrigonous tumid with a short trigo- 

 nous emarginate beak, nut elliptical narrowed at both ends trian- 

 gular. E. B. 2315. Schk. Q. 60. R. 243. C. Agastachys Ehrh. 

 H. b. 57- C. maxima Scop. St. 3 6 feet high, rough at the 

 angles above. Fertile spikes often 3 or 4 in. long, arched; upper 

 ones frequently with barren fl. at the tip. Gl. ovate, mucronate, 

 brown with a green keel. Fr. green, ciliated at the mouth. 

 Damp woods. P. V. 



+++.+ Fruit downy, hairy or scabrous. Bracts sheathing. L. in 

 sterile tufts. Barren spike 1. 



45. C. humilis (Leyss.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 remote about 3- 

 flowered inclosed in the membranous sheathing leafless bracts, fr. 

 obovate subtrigonous narrowed below with an entire oblique mouth, 

 " nut obovate triangular with a short beak." H. b. 15. C. clan- 

 destina Good. E. B. 2124. Schk. K. 43. R. 239. St. about 

 2 in. high, erect, concealed amongst the leaves. Bracts large, 

 wholly membranous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. L. ail 

 radical, linear, channeled, rough. Limestone hills in Wilts and 

 Somerset. P. IV. E. 



46. C. digitata (L.); fertile spikes 2 or 3 distant linear erect 

 lax, bracts membranous sheathing obliquely truncate lowermost 



