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Stiff, very bluntly trigonous, smooth, not glaucous. Leaves snbcrect or 

 slightly sprcading-recurvcd, much shorter than the stem, stiff, broadly 

 linear, flat, rough on the margins, bright green, not glaucous. INIale 

 6[)ike 1, fusiform or clavate-fusiform, usually longly stalked, solitary. 

 Female spikes 1 or 2, rarely 3, remote, the lowest one with a longer 

 stalk wholly included in or exsertcd beyond the sheath of its bract, 

 the upper ones with a short included stalk, erect, ovoid-oblong or 

 oblong-cylindrical, rather lax, especially at the base, 3- to 10-flowered. 

 Bracts sheathing, Ibliaceous, the lowest one equalling or falling short 

 of its own spike, and but rarely exceeding it. Glumes of the female 

 flowers oblong-oval, obtuse, reddish-brown, with a narrow green stripe 

 on the midrib and concolorous margins, shorter than but as broad as 

 the fruit, and applied to it even when it is ripe. Fruit ascending, 

 sessile, oval-ovoid, pointed, scarcely trigonous, slightly inflated, with- 

 out evident nerves, somewhat sliining, green, ultimately greenish- 

 olive, abruptly acuminated into a leather short deflexed slightly 

 notched beak. Stigmas 3. Nut pale yellow, elliptical-turbinate, 

 bluntly triquetrous, shortly beaked. 



On rocky ledges on mountains. Rather local. Frequent on the 

 Breadalbane Mountains, in Perthshire; at the head of Glen Fiadh, 

 and at the White Water, Clova, Forfar; Glen Callater, Loch-na-gar, 

 Ben Macdhui, Cairntowl, and other mountains of Braemar, Aberdeen- 

 shire. It is rejjorted on good authority from Ben Voirlich, Dumbarton; 

 Cairngorm, Moi'ay ; and Speecanconick, Sutherland. 



Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Very similar to C. panicea, but with longer stolons, stouter stems 

 6 to 15 inches high, with the lowest bract usually much above the 

 middle. Leaves thicker, broader (often i inch), shining green, not 

 at all glaucous. j\lale spike ^- to f inch long, but usually about I 

 inch, much thicker in tlie middle than that of C. panicea, and with 

 the glumes narrower, orange-broAvn instead of purplish-black, with a 

 gi-een midrib; female spikes I to | inch long, with sliorter stalks and 

 much blunter glumes than in C. panicea. Fruit J inch long, greener, 

 more regular in figui'c, and with a considerably longer more cylin- 

 drical less deflexed and more evidently notched beak than in C. 

 panicea ; and on account of the fruit bulging less at the base wiien full 

 grown, the glumes are not forced into a spreading position. The nut 

 is paler coloured and narrower, but the beak is certainly not thickened 

 upwards, as it is sometimes said to be. 



Short Brown-spiked Sedge. 



German, LocJcerhluihige Segge. 



