506 CVI. CYPERiCE^. iCdre^ 



naceous margin nerved shorter than the acuminate glumes I ^^fv 



bracteas membranaceous lower ones somewhat leafy, stem tri-' I ^^ 



angular, leaves plane. JE. B. t. 928. I 0^ 



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Sandy sea-shore, frequent, where it is of great service In binding the I ^' \ 



soil. ijL. 6. — Roots excessively long and creeping. Stems xo\x^r\x • r^^^ 



8 inches to afoot high. Fruit with a green membranous win^. ^ * \ to^^ 



22. C. intermedia Gooden (soft brown C) ] lower and upper tec^s 



spikelets fertile, the intermediate ones sterile, all crowded into long^ 



an oblong interrupted head, fruit with an acute narrow maro-iu stai"* 



iv. Terminal spikelet androgynous^ the rest fertile. Stigmas 3. 



24. C. Vdhlii Schkh, (close-headed Alpine C.) ; spikelets 

 1 — 4 roundish or oblonof ao^o:reo:ated the terminal one with 

 barren flowers at its base, stigmas 3, fruit obovate triquetrous 

 with a short notched beak scabrous above with crystaUine 

 points longer than the ovate somewhat obtuse glume, stem tri- 

 angular rough at the edges towards the summit. £J. B. S. 

 t. 2666. C. alplna VahL 



Rocks above the head of Loch Callater In Braemar; Glen Fladh 

 (Fee) on the south side of Glen Dole, Clova. %, 7. 



25. C. canescens L. (hoary C.) ; spikelets 3—5 oblong, ter- 

 minal one barren at the base, fertile sessile contiguous to the 

 •upper one except the lowest which is on a short stalk and sub- 

 remote, fruit oblong-oval obtuse compressed at length tri- 

 gonous nerved bidentate rough with crystalline points shorter 

 at the base of the spikelet than the ovate or oblong cuspidate 



serrate upwards longer than the glumes whose midrib dis- pi^^^ 



appears below the summit, bracteas membranaceous the lower 26 



ones somewhat leafy, stem triangular with scabrous angles ' tie 



leaves plane. E. B. t. 2042. ^ ' V^, 



Marshy ground and wet meadows. 1/. . 6. — Root creeping, runnlno* JeJJ'^^^ 



deep Into the mud. Stems \ — \\ foot high. Spikes, or heads of fruit 



spikelets, similar in general appearance to the last. i^rM27 large, not shori&l 



so distinctly winged as gradually flattened towards the margin, more 

 striate on Its flat or Inner side, the beak broader at Its summit. Stem ■ 



much taller, and the leaves less confined to the lower part of it. I unti 



I top of a 



23. C. divisa Iluds. (bracteate Marsh C) ; spikelets crowded I oiler H 



into a somewhat ovate head, the lower ones simple or com- I ligh. -f 



pound with a leafy erect bractea at their base, glumes with I Iron^nj o 



an excurrent midrib, fruit roundish-ovate convex on one side I tat ^s it 



slightly concave on the other, beak acutely bifid with finely I ^uetroi 

 serrate edges, stem roughlsh at the summit. E. B. t. 1096. 



Marshy places, especially near the sea, principally in the east of 

 England, and in Angus-shire. If., 5j 6. — Stems about 1 foot high; 

 lower bracteas mostly with a long leafy point. 



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