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with a setaceous leafiike point, fr. obovate trigonous narrowed 

 below equalling gl., beak short nearly entire, " nut elliptic-oblong 

 triangular shortly-stalked and shortly-beaked." E. B. 615. 

 Schk. H. 38. H. b. 14. St. 68 in. high, erect, sheathed at 

 the base, leafless, taller than the flat radical leaves. Woods on 

 limestone, rare. P. IV. V. E. 



F T - hairy or downy or scabrous. Bracts not sheathing 

 (except slightly in No. 50). Barren spike 1. 



47. C. prcecox ( Jacq.) ; fertile spikes 1 3 oblong-ovate near 

 together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest leaflike and slightly 

 sheathing, gl. broadly ovate-acuminate, fr. ovate-rhomboidal tri- 

 gonous with an entire mouth, nut obovate narrowed below trigo- 

 nous, base of the style surrounded by a prominent ring, stoloni- 

 ferous.E. B. 1099. Schk. F. 27. H. b. 24. St. 3 12 in. high. 



Lowermost spike sometimes slightly stalked. Dry places. P. 



48. C. montana (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 3 ovate crowded sessile, 

 bracts small membranous the lowest with an awlshaped point, 

 gl. of fertile spikes obtuse notched and mucronate, fr. narrowed 

 below oblong-obovate trigonous with a short notched beak, nut 

 oblong narrowed below with a pyramidal beak, root fibrous from 

 a shaggy thick branched rhizome. E. B S. 2924. Schk. F. 29. 

 H. b. 21. R. 262. C. collina H. and A. St. about a span long, 

 slender. L. narrow ; sheaths of lower 1. red. Gl. very dark ; 

 midrib narrowly yellowish. Fr. hairy, its beak purple. Near 

 Tonbridge Wells. Wynd Cliff, Chepstow. P. IV. V. E. 



49. C. pilulifera (L.) ; fertile spikes about 3 roundish near 

 together sessile, bracts small lowest scarcely leafiike awlshaped 

 not sheathing, gl. broadly-ovate mucronate, fr. stalked subglobose 

 with a short bifid beak, nut subglobose subtrigonous narrowed 

 below, roct fibrous. E. B. 885. Schk. I. 39. H. b. 20. R. 260. 

 St. 6 12 in. long, slender, at length decumbent. Base of the 

 style enlarged. Wet heaths. P. V. 



50. C. tomentosa (L.); fertile spikes 1 or 2 nearly sessile cy- 

 lindrical blunt, lowermost bract leafiike with a very short sheath, 

 gl. broadly ovate acute, fr. obovate subtrigonous scarcely beaked 



.slightly emarginate, nut obtuse trigonous narrowed below with a 

 short beak constricted at its base, stoloniferous. E. B. 2046. 

 Schk. F. 28. H. b. 28. R. 263. St. a foot high, with 3 sharp 

 angles, rough upwards, erect. Beak of nut slightly swelling 

 upwards. Fr. with copious white down, mouth very broad. 

 Water-meadows at Merston Measey, Wilts. P. VI. E 



