Curex.'] CVL cyperace^. 513 



fruit, more highly coloured, the latter more acutely triquetrous with 

 two 'nerves near the margin on the back, which are always green, 

 though the rest of the fruit be more or less brown. Achene obovate, 

 tapering at the base. 



40. C. Icevigdta Sm. (smooth-stalked beaJied C); fertile spike- 

 lets remote erect or drooping cylindrical stalked, stalks longer 

 than the elongated sheaths, bracteas foliaceous, all the glumes 

 acuminate or mucronate, fruit ovate triangular striate with 

 rather a long acuminate beak deeply bifid at the point. E. B. 



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Marshes and boggy thickets, In several places both of England and 



Scotland. Anglesea. Near Belfast. 2/.. 6 Stem 2— 3 ft, high. 



Leaves broad, but rather short. There is rarely more than one sterile 

 spike, which is always triquetrous, with obtuse or sometimes acute 

 glumes. Achene obovate, tapering at the base. Often in the young 

 state confounded with C, sylvatica, and then most easily distinguished 

 by its more compact spikelets and darker glumes; it flowers too a 

 month later. 



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- • 41. C. depauperata Gooden. (starved Wood C.) ; fertile spike- 

 lets erect remote with very few (3—4) flowers, the stalks much 

 longer than the sheaths, bracteas foliaceous, fruit large nearly- 

 globose inflated terminating in a long bifid beak with rough 

 edges. E. B. t. 1098. 



Dry woods, rare. Godalming, Surrey ; Charlton wood, Kent. Near 

 Forfar; G. Don. 1^. 5, 6.— Stem 1— I^ ft. high. Spikelets very 

 distant; their few flowers, and large inflated beaked fruit, decidedly 

 marking the species. Mr. Don cultivated it in his garden, which we 

 fear was the only locality for it near Forfar. 



42. C. vagindta Tausch (short hrown-spiked C.) ; barren 

 spikelet solitary, fertile ones 1—3 subcylindrical erect lax- 

 flowered distant stalked, the stalks longer than the elon- 

 gated loose sheaths, bracteas subfoliaceous, fruit smooth obso- 

 letely nerved elliptic-lanceolate triangular with an acuminate 

 obliquely bifid recurved beak longer than the ovate glume. C. 

 phaiostachya Sm.: E. B. S. t. 2731. C. salina Don: Herh. 

 Brit. n. 216. C. Mielichoferi Sm. (not Schh) : E. B. t. 2293. 

 C. Scotica Sprang. C. panicea /3. Wahl. 



Highland mountains. Craig Cailleach and Meal-cuachlar, near 

 Killin; Cairngorum and Ben Mac Duibh, Aberdeenshire; about the 

 falls at the head of Glen Fiadh, and in the ravines of the White 

 Water, Clova. 7/.. 7. — '' Differs from C. panicea in its broader 

 leaves shorter bracts in the inflated sheaths, green triangular (not in- 

 flated) fruit with an emarginate beak and obtuse ferruginous glumes," 

 M'Laren. The name given by Tausch in 1821, being the oldest, 

 we adopt it, 



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