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subobtiise, with a short apiculus at the apex, very loosely covered by 

 the perigynium. 



In damp places by the sea. Very rare, if indeed it has really been 

 found in Britain. Vazon Bay, Guernsey (Professor Babington). 

 Reported by Mr. T. Westcombe from Cornwall, by the side of the 

 footpath on the face of the cliff on the coast south of St, Austel and 

 about three-quarters of a mile westward of Charlestown, from which 

 station there is a specimen in Dr. Boott's Herbarium, as I am informed 

 by the Rev. W. W. Newbould. Said also to have occurred on the Menai 

 Straits, near Beaumaris or Bangor, or both, but as these stations have 

 disappeared from recent editions of the " Manual " and " British Flora," 

 it is to be presumed that some mistake has occurred. Another English 

 station is given by Professor D. Oliver, on the coast about four miles 

 south of Whitehaven, Cumberland, but as this is not given in the 

 " Manual," I presume it like\vise is an error. Several Irish stations 

 are reported in the " Cybele Hibernica." " Near Dingle, Kerry, near a 

 tower at the mouth of the harbour: Professor D. Oliver^ 1853. At 

 Sneem, Kerry; and at Bei'e-haven, Cork: the late Mr. J. Woods. 

 Shore at Glengariff, sparingly; in greater quantity, but dwarfed, near 

 Dunboy, Berehaven, Cork: Mr. Isaac Carroll.^'' — Cyb. Hib. pp. 333 

 and 334. 



England (?), Ireland (?). Perennial. Early Summer. 



Habit of growth and foliage very similar to that of C. distans. 

 Male spike f to 1;^ inch long. Female spikes :| to 1 inch long. Fruit 

 \ inch long. 



C. punctata differs from C. distans in its more lax spikes, with the 

 fruit much more spreading. Fruit greatly inflated, convex above and 

 below, with the ribs obsolete except the 2 marginal ones, and it is ulti- 

 mately paler and grayer in colour, the beak much smoother, with shorter 

 and erect smooth not diverging rough-edged teeth, than in C. distans; 

 the scarious lobe at the top of the stem leaves is shorter and more 

 truncate, the bracts are longer, and the glumes have commonly a larger 

 and much rougher mucro. 



Of this I have seen no British specimens, and as British writers 

 take no notice of the most striking character which belongs to it, viz. 

 the spreading fruit, I fear it is imperfectly known. Our figure is drawn 

 from a French specimen. At \'azon Bay, in the " Primitia3 Florae 

 Sarnicai," C. punctata is stated to occur, but no mention is made of 

 C. distans being found there : but in 1853 I made a very careful search 

 for C. piuictata without success; but C. distans was in great plenty, 

 often with the fruit very faintly ribbed, but never with it spreatling. 



Dotted-Jridted Sedge. 



French, Oarex imaclue. 



