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smooth suddenly contracted into an erect narrow rough-edged 

 bifid beak, nut obovate-trigonous punctate-scabrous, st. trigonous 

 smooth. E. 5. 1772. H. b. 23. R. 272. Much like, but di- 

 stinct from, C. flava. Fertile spikes smaller. Fr. much smaller 

 than those of C. flava, more in number, with a shorter and nar- 

 rower-based beak. Very variable in height. Bogs. P. VI. VII. 



55. C. extensa (Good.) ; fertile spikes oblong near together 

 subsessile lower one rather distant with a short included stalk, 

 bracts very long leaflike with short sheaths, gl. mucronate trian- 

 gular ribbed narrowed into a straight smooth-edged bifid beak, 

 nut oblony -elliptical narrowed at both ends triangular smooth.- 

 E. B. 833. Schk. V. Xx. 72. H. b. 32. R. 274. St. usually 

 curved, 8 12 in. high, trigonous, smooth. Barren spike nearly 

 sessile, blunt ; gl. blunt. L. and bracts very narrow, convolute, 

 long. Marshes chiefly near the sea. P. VI. 



56. C.fulva (Good.); fertile spikes oblong-oval distant with 

 exserted stalks, bracts leaflike with long sheaths, gl. acute not 

 mucronate, fr. ovate triquetrous ribbed smooth with a straight 

 rough -edged bifid beak, nut obovate trigonous nearly smooth. 

 E. B. 1295. ? R. 252. St. triangular, rough-edged, about a 

 foot high. Barren spike spindleshaped, acute; gl. obtuse. Lowest 

 bract frequently, but not always, reaching up to the barren 

 spike. Root sometimes creeping. )3. C. Hornschuchiana 

 (Hoppe) ; fertile spikes oblong on longer stalks more distant, fr. 

 more inflated and more strongly ribbed, st. trigonous smooth ex- 

 cept sometimes near the top, lowest bract longer than its own 

 spike. H. b. 40. R. 252. C. speirostachya Sm., E. B. S. 2770. 

 Boggy places. j3. Peaty bogs, chiefly on mountains. P. VI. 



57. C. punctata (Gaud.) ; fertile spikes erect cylindrical with 

 slightly exserted stalks particularly the lowest, bracts sheathing, 

 gl. ovate shortly awned, fr. ovate tumid obsoletely veined pellu- 

 cidly punctate with a linear bidentate smooth beak, nut ovate- 

 rhomboidal narrowed at both ends triangular rough. H. b. 37- 

 Kunze Riedg. 6. R. 251. St. smooth, 1 2 feet high, slender. 

 Spikes distant or the upper ones near ; stalks slightly (the lowest 

 often greatly) exserted, rough ; lowest spike often very distant. 

 Gl. pale red with a broad green longitudinal dorsal band. Fr. 

 pale. Nut brown. Gl. 01 barren spike blunt. Marshy places 

 near the sea. Charlestown, Cornwall. Dingle, Kerry. Bantry 

 Bay, Cork. Guernsey. P. VI. E. I. 



58. C. distans (L.) ; fertile spikes remote erect oblong, upper 

 with included stalks, bracts with sheaths, gl. mucronate, fr. ovate 

 trigonous equally ribbed pellucidly punctate smooth, edges of 

 the bifid narrow beak rough, nut triquetrous roughish oblong- 

 elliptioal sarrowed at both ends. E. B. 1234. Schk. T. (>& 



