Car ex.'] 



CVI. CYPERACE^. 



503 



13. C. axillaris Gooden. (axillary-ditstered C) ; spikelets se- 

 veral sterile at the end very distant and compound below 

 crowded and simple above, fruit longer than the glume oblono-. 

 ovate shortly acuminate plano-convex acutely angled, the beak 

 deeply bifid, lowest bractea foliaceous as long as die spike, the 

 middle ones setaceous shorter, upper ones with a point scarcely 

 so long as the spikelet. .E. ^. t. 993. 



Marshes, rare. Putney, by London; Earsham, Norfolk; Over, 

 Cheshire ;^ Manchester ; York. 2^. 6. — Stem with 3 acute ano-Ies ;' 

 spikelets with more numerous floivers than the last, lower one or" two 

 compound. Glumes with 2, close, green, generally rou^h nerves, reach- 

 ing to the summit, hence more rigid. Achene obovate, pointed. 

 In the specimens we have examined, the spikelets are sterile only at 

 the extremity, but from the observations of Gay, Babington, and 

 M'Laren, there seems no doubt about their being sometimes, if not 

 as frequently, sterile also at the base, both in this species and the next. 



14. 



C. Boenninghausidna 



Weihe {Boenninghausei{s C.) ; 

 spikelets several sterile at the end crowded and simple above, 

 fruit as short as the glume ovate-acuminate plano-convex 

 acutely an^jrled, the beak deeply notched on one side, lower 

 bractea foliaceous as long as the spike, middle ones shortly se- 

 taceous scarcely so long as the spikelets, upper ones pointless. 

 Colem. in E. B. S, t. 2910. - — " ' - - 



p. 870. 

 p. 20. 



Bromf. M'Lai 



C. Hailstoni Gihs, in Fhyt i. 



Marshes and by the sides of ponds, rare. Balls wood, Hertford ; 

 Congleton, Cheshire; Esher, Surrey; Pulborough and Hastings, 

 Sussex; Isle of V/ight. KiUin, Perthshire 5 Culreach near Gordon 

 Castle, Banffshire; Crlchton Castle near Edinburgh. ^. 6. — 

 ^"7^ ^f the 'ower spikelets are compound and distant. Verv closely 

 allied to the last and often perhaps collected for It : the chief distinc- 

 tion lies in the more luxuriant spikes; in addition to which may 

 be mentioned that it forms « large hassocks of a foot in diameter and 

 height, sometimes bearing two or three hundred stems, which with 

 the foliage spread outwards from the centre of the tuft, and thus 

 occupy a circle of nearly 8 feet in diameter." Glumes pale brown 

 with a scarious margin ; /rmY with the edges blunt at the base, 



sharp and serrated from below the middle. Achene ovate-elliptical, 

 pointed. ^ 



**** 



Spikelets alternate, sterile at the extremity, the lowest or most of 

 them compound, all more or less approximated. Bracteas not 

 foliaceous. Root fibrous. 



A 



15. p. paniculdta L. {great panided C.) ; spike panicled 

 consisting of ovate spikelets arranged on elongated diverging 

 Branches of a common axis, fruit deltoid or subreniform piano- 



