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t!VI. CYPERACE^. 



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ff Beak of fruit entire. 



43. C. panicea L. (Pink-leaved C.) ; barren spikelet solitary 



fertile ones about 2 subcylindrical lax-flowered distant stalked 



the stalks longer than the close elongated sheaths, bracteas leafy 



•fruit subglobose somewhat inflated obtuse glabrous with a ^hnll 



• terete beak. E. B.t. 1505. '^ 



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Marshy places and bogs, common. If.. 6. — Stems 1—1^ ft. hirrh 

 Leaves rather broad, glaucous, rough at the edges, much resemblino-' 

 as Sir J, E. Smith observes, the foliage of C. glauca ; but the cha- 

 racters of the two are widely different. Glumes dark brown, the 

 keel green. Fruit greenish-brown, 



44. C. pallescens L. {pale C) ; barren spikelet 1 sessile 

 fertile spikelets peduncled oblong-cylindrical approximate 

 scarcely pendulous much longer than the very short sheaths 

 bracteas foliaceous, fruit obovate-elliptical tumid striate ob- 

 tuse glabrous. E. B. t. 2185. 



Marshy places, frequent. %. 6. — A foot or more high, Leaves 

 ■slightly downy. Spikes obtuse, pale green. Fruit very obtuse, with- 

 out a beak. Achene narrow-elliptical, tapering at both ends. 



** Fertile spikelets ahbreviated, stalked^ drooping. 



■(■ Beak of fruit entire. 



45. C. capilldris L. {dxoarf capillary C^ : fertile snikplf^fs 

 few-flowered lax drooping, the stalks 



included within a common sheath, fruit oblong-obovate with a 

 short beak rather longer than the membranaceous ovate obtuse 



twice as long as and 



deciduous glumes. E 



Plentiful on some of the Highland mountains, especially the Bread- 

 albane range. Ben-Ghlo. Hart-fell, Dumfries-shire. %. 6, 7.— 

 Stem 2—6 inches high. Leaves mostly radical, scarcely half the 

 length of the stem, soft. One single bractea includes, with its sheath- 

 ing base, the lower part of all the peduncles, which are thus some- 

 what corymbose; rarely there is a distant /er^27e spikelet. Sterile 

 spikelet single, frequently on a shorter stalk than the others, and 

 therefore appearing as if below them. Fruit dark brown, shining. 

 Achene obovate. 



46. C. rariflora Sm. {loose- flowered Alpine C.) ; fertile spike- 

 lets 2—3 upon long stalks narrow-oblong very few-flowered lax 

 'drooping, sheaths very short mostly membranous, bracteas sub- 

 setaceous, fruit bluntly triangular ovate with a short entire 

 beak faintly nerved nearly as long as the glume, glume very 

 ^broad and concave obtuse minutely apiculate folded round the 

 ^iruit. E. B. t. 2516. C. limosa y. WahL 



Bogs, rare. Head of Glen Dole, south-east side of the Little 

 Culrannoch, and head of Canlochan, Clova mountains: also in 



