508 ' CVI. CYPEKACE^. [Cdrex. I (^^^ 



foUaceous ^v]th short auricles, fruit lanceolate acute with many I •'^^^,; 



nerves not reaching the summit and a short entire beak, achene I ^^ 



broadly obovate very blunt with a short thick beak, stem I ^ 



acutely 3 -angular or triquetrous rough towards the top" I el^^ 



Bah. in Ann, Nat Hist xi. t. 5. C. csespitosa /3. chlorocarpus I a^^ 



Gibs. C. vulgaris /3. M'Laren. J j-^p 



Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. 1^. 6. — Creeping, ^'i^ews 6— 8 inches ^^^ 



hiffb. Leaves flat ; sheaths not filamentose. Glumes, a third shorter S ' 



o 



in the neighbourhood? 



recurved at the margin, about as long as the firm acutely-triangular 



i 



in ^ 



than the fruit, which is gradually narrowed from below the middle ^^^^ 



to the top and nearly twice as long as the achene, — With this species a^U 



we are not acquainted, but that it is in an abnormal condition is gl^^ 



shown by the perigynium having lengthened out much beyond the J 



achene. Dr. Boott suspects it to be C. acuta, whilst Mr. Babington wl 

 thinks it more allied to C vulgaris. It is said to be now lost by 



drainage ; but may it not have reverted to its usual state, and be still (jj^ , 



29. C. aqadtilis Wahl. ? (strairrJit-leaved Water C.) ; spikelets i ^*^^" 



erect, 1 or more barren, fertile 3 — 4 nearly sessile cylindrical I Si 



elongated attenuate below often acuminate with barren flowers I barrel 



at the extremity, sheaths none, bracteas long foliaceous, fruit I lower 



xoundish-obovate without nerves broader than the glumes I attop: 



with a very short entire beak, stem smooth obtusely triangular, I with J 



leaves lonii strai^-ht narrow -linear. £J. B. S. t. 2758. C. I obte 



ttan ti 

 fifltire, 



rigida ^. Hook. Br, Fl. ed. 2. p. 397. 



On table-land in boggy situations in the mountains of Clova; and 



in the valley by the bridge at Clova. %. 7, 8. — Stem 1—2 ft. high. ^rfi^r. 



Achene '* roundlsh-obovate, blunt with a short beak." Dr. Boott '-Sli 



doubts if this be really the C. aquatilis of Wahlenberg, since that Marsl 



author describes his plant as having scales much narrower than the esspitosi 



fruit, which is not the case here, and the place of growth and size margin, j 



being so very different; in ipsis fluviis et lacubus" — "sa^pe altitu- I ^tm. I 



dinem humanam attingens" — "ad radicem ssepius poUicem crassa." I 8.9 j-q, 



It appears to be the species Intended by Fries. j p,207,9 



■{■f Margins of leaves revoJute lohen dry. J Hence ( 



and calle, 



leen giv^ 



30. C. ingida Good, (rigid (7.) , ^ . 



long, barren 1, fertile 2—4, lower one shortly stalked, sheaths I g^^j^^^ 



none, lower bractea subfoliaceous with small black subrotund I Socie|. 1 



auricles, glumes elliptic or oblong obtuse black, fruit oblong or J * 



elliptic obtuse plano-convex without nerves with an obsolete " ^J^n^ 



entire beak, sheaths of leaves not filamentose. E> B. t. 2047. tieiaftj'^f 



C. saxatilis FL Ban. (not Z.) 



On Snowdon,the Cheviots, Hartfell, Dumfries-shire, and especially ^^^^^^^ 



the summits of all the more elevated Highland mountains. If.. 6—8. (jg^i^J^Jd 



Stems 4—6 inches high, laxly casspitose. Leaves flat, at length ^M^l 



'"til a 



'wever 



.t 



