Car ex. ^ 



CVI. CYPEKAGE^. 



501 



Not ^unfrequent on the Highland mountains, In moory places. 

 Lowther hills, near Dalvene pass, and meadow above Drumlanrlff 

 Castle, Dumfries-shire. Crag Lake, Northumb, 

 pale-yellowish, striate. 



1}.. 6, 7. — Fruit 



ill. Spihelets androgynous in a compound spike. Stigmas 2. 

 Spikelets capitate, sterile at the end, Bracteas not foliaceous. 



6. C.^ incurva Lightf. {curved C) ; spikelets sterile at their 

 extremity collected into a roundish head, bracteas membrana- 

 ceous shorter than the spikelets, fruit broadly ovate acuminate 

 nearly entire at the point, stem obtusely angular, leaves chan- 

 nelled. E. B. t. 927. C, juncifolia All 



Sandy sea-shores in the N, of Scotland. 



Stems 2— 



n. .6. 



Root much 



creeping 



4 inches high, curved. Head o£ spikelets large. 



** Spikelets alternate, sterile at their base. Bracteas not foliaceous. 



Root Jihrous^ not creeping. 



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7. 



C. ovdlis Gooden. {ovaUspiked C.) ; spikelets about 6 

 sterile at the base oval approximate, fruit as long as the glume 

 ovate-acuminate compressed plano-convex striate with a broad 

 membranous margin rough at the edge, the beak bifid. E B 

 t.306. 



Bogs and marshy places. 1^, 6. — Stems 1 foot high, triangular. 

 Spikelets brownish-green, shining. Glumes concealing the fruit. 

 Bracteas small, uppermost ones resembling the glumes. 



If Edges of the fruit acute or ohtuse, not winged. 



8. C. stelluldta Gooden. {little prichly C.) ; spikelets few 

 (3—4) sterile at their base roundish distant, fruit ovate much 

 attenuate plano-convex sharply angled spreading, beak bifid 

 serrate at the margin. E. B. t. 806. 



Marshy and heathy places. %. 5,6. — Stein from a span to a 

 foot high. Leaves nearly as long as the stem. Distinguished by its 

 few, much-beaked capstdes, placed in small distant roundish spikelets, 

 and spreadmg, when ripe, in every direction. 



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8 sterile at their 



base rather distant or sometimes approximate elliptical, brac- 

 teas very mmute (except the lower one), fruit erect broadly 

 ovate acute plane above slightly convex beneath rather bluntly 

 angled fauitly striate longer than the membranous glumes 

 beak short. — o. beak of fruit emarginate not split. JE. B 

 t. idSb.—^.alpicola, smaller, beak of fruit sometimes split to 

 Its base. C. Versoomi Sieber. C. vitilis i^r. 



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