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Bogs, in several places, not very general. Very common about 

 Glasgow. j8. Locli-na-gar; BenLawers; Ben Wy vis. Snailesworth 

 dale, Yorkshire. I/.* 6. — Distinguished by its pale elliptical spike- 

 lets, and imbricated, compressed, almost elliptical fruit In a. the 

 glumes are whitish with a green keel ; in ^, they are said to be pale 

 with a white mar^^in, and such we have seen, but on Ben Lawers 

 they are as in a. The character taken from the beak of the fruit does 

 not appear to us to be constant or important, and we cannot, there- 

 fore, look on 0, except as a small or mountain variety. 



10. C. leporina L. {Hare's-foot C) ; spikelets 3 rarely 4 

 ovate contiguous, fruit elliptic rostrate plano-convex smooth- 

 nerved with a scariose bidentate finally entire orifice scarcely 

 lonj^er than the ovate obtuse ojlumes which are scariose at the 



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E. B. S. t. 2815. C. Lachenalii SclMu F. f. 79. 



C. lagoplna WaliL 



Rocks, on the west side of Loch-na-;G^ar,'and on Cairn Tuill, Aber- 

 deenshire, 1/.. 7. — Root fibrous. Stem 4 — 8 inches high, smooth, 

 rarely rough below the spike. Leaves a line broad, shorter than the 

 stem. Spikelets brown. Bracteas broad, ovate, obtuse, the lowest 

 aristate, rarely foliaceous and larger than the spikelet. Achene elliptic, 

 plano-convex, pale yellow: Boott, 



11. C elongdtaJj, (elongated C^) ; spikelets numerous oblong 

 lax rather distant sterile with minute pointed bracteas, fruit 

 plano-convex oblong acuminate many-ribbed scarcely bifid at 

 the point spreading longer than the glumes. E. B, t. 1 920. 



Marshes, rare. Aldwark, Yorkshire; near Sheffield; Over, Che- 

 shire; Shropshire; Coggeshall, Essex ; near Manchester. Ahagallan, 

 countv of Antrim, Ireland, li. 6. — Boots tufted. Stems 1— 



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foot high, with 3 acute angles, rather rough, as well as the leaves, 

 Spikelets brown. Fruit lax. Achene linear-oblong. A very distinct 

 species. 



*** Spikelets alternate, lower ones distant, Bracteas foliaceous. Root 



fibrous. 



12. C. remota L. (distant-spiked C) ; spikelets several (small) 

 sterile only at their base very distant, fruit longer than the glume 

 oblong-ovate shortly acuminate plano-convex acutely angled 

 bifid at the point, bracteas very lonix and narrow leafy reaching 

 beyond the spike. E. B. t. 832. C. tenella Schkh. 



If-. 6. — Whole plant very 

 Resembling the following in 



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 slender, pale green, 1— ^ ^ 



many respects ; but " the stem has blunter angles ; the lowest hractea 

 is much longer than in that species; the leaves are compresso-canali- 

 culate (with incurved sides) and much narrower ; the glumes, too, are 

 narrower, their nerve quite smooth, discontinued below the mem- 

 branous summit :" W. Wilson, .^c/^ene ovate, pointed. 



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