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lanceolate, nerved, with white sheaths especially opposite to 
the leaf; staminate spike single, pedunculate, oblong, round- 
ish, rising from the bract of the highest pistillate ; staminate 
seale oblong, rather obtuse, white on the edge; stigmas 
three ; pistillate spikes 2—5, generally three, erect, alternate, 
loose flowered and with a zig-zag rachis, rather remote,—the 
highest nearly sessile, the others pedunculate, supported by 
leafy bracts with short sheaths and on two-edged peduncles ; 
stigmas three; Muh. observed fruit on the staminate spike of 
some specimens, but I have never found any; fruit rather 
oval, attenuated at both ends, and seeming to stand on small 
pedicels, striate, turned back at the apex. membranaceous or 
entire at the orifice ; pistillate scale variable, oblong and mu- 
cronate, sometimes ovate and acute, someiimes obtuse with 
a short point, often differing on the same spike, white on the 
edge, green on the keel, more than half the length of the 
fruit. Colour of the plant rather glaucous. 
Flowers in May—grows about woods and hedges, very 
rarely in wet situations—common. 
The name of this species is credited to Muh. by Schk. 
Yet Muh. describes it under the name of C. plantaginea, 
while he refers the plant to the fig. of C. anceps, and asks 
whether it is not “*C. anceps, Schkuhr?” It seems certain 
that Muh. could not have seen the true C. plantaginen, for 
his description corresponds most accurately to C. anceps in 
Schk. and disagrees entirely with that of C. plantaginea, tab. 
U. fig. 70. In the same work, as well as with the descriptions 
of the plant by Lam., Wahl., Schk., &c. The leafless sheaths 
of C. plantaginea, as well as other characters, clearly distin- 
guish it from +’. anceps. The latter flowers a little later, but 
is found in the same situations. 
C. latifolia in Mr. Schweinitz’ “ Analytical Table,” seems 
to be only a variety of C. anceps, having more broad and more 
distinctly nerved leaves and broader sheaths. Both varieties 
are common here, and the gradation from the narrower to 
the broader leaves is readily traced. This variety is certain- 
ly not the C. latifolia, Wabl., as he expressly refers his plant 
to the fig. of C. plantaginea in Schk. tab. U fig. 70. and de- 
scribes the sheaths as subaphyllous. It is well known that 
the sheaths of C. plantaginea have sometimes an elongated 
termination remotely approaching to the form ofa leaf. Al. 
though the plant in Schk. tab. Kkkk, fig 195, is referred by 
Schk. to C. plantaginea, it is certainly the broad-leafed va- 
