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Sutherland, as Oikel, Ben Hope, Ben Lyal, &c.. 1^. 6. — Creep- 

 ing". Stems about 6 inches high. Leaves about half an inch long, 

 but broader than those of the next, with which it has been united 

 by both Wahlenberg and Kunth, Glumes obtuse, very deep brown, 

 with a pale dorsal nerve usually running out and forming a very , 

 minute mucro at the end, forming a striking contrast with the pale 

 coloured fruits. 



47. C. limosa L. (MudC.) ; fertile spikelets 1 — 3 upon very 

 .lonf>' stalks oblong-ovate densely flowered drooping, sheaths 

 very short, bracteas subsetaceous or lower ones leallike, fruit 

 joundish compressed ribbed with a very short beak, about as 

 long as or shorter than the ovate pointed glume. — a. leaves 

 .narrow-linear channelled rough at their edges throughout, 

 bracteas subsetaceous, lower glumes slightly acuminate scarcely 

 longer than the strongly ribbed fruit, upper ones longer and 

 narrower. E. B. t. 2043. — /3. irrigua, leaves broader flat rough 

 ,only near the point, the lower bracteas foliaceous, lower glumes 

 .ovate- or narrow-lanceolate much acuminate longer than the 

 faintly ribbed fruit, upper ones often broader and shorter. C. 

 [ irrigua Hoppe : E. B. S. t. 2895. C. limosa (5. WahL 



\ Bogs and marshes. Rare in England, mostly found in the northern 

 ) and mountainous parts; more frequent in Scotland and Ireland. 



)3. Muckle Moss, Northumberland. Terregles, Dumfries-shire ; 

 "Benina"near Loch Lomond; Clova mountains; hill of Knock, 

 Dunfermline. 1^. 6. — Creeping. Stems 8 — 10 inches high. Leaves 

 very narrow. Fertile spikelets usually 2. Glumes dark brown, subapi- 

 culate. Fruit greenish-brown. In jS. the lower glumes are usually 

 very narrow and much attenuate, becoming broader and shorter up- 

 wards, while this proportion is reversed in a.: in both the narrowest 

 glumes are either empty or with stamens, and the broadest are scarcely 

 so broad as the fruit. 



fl Beak of fruit hifid, 



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48. C. ustuldta Willd, (scorched Alpine C.) ; fertile spikelets 

 .about 3 oval densely-flowered drooping, the stalks about twice 

 the length of the loose sheaths, bracteas setaceous, fruit elliptical 

 compressed (black) shortly acuminate rough at the edges near 

 the apex, glumes ovate-oblong acuminate narrower and rather 

 shorter than the fruit. E. B. t. 2404. C. atrofusca SchL 



Ben Lawers, very rare ; G. Don, If.. 7. — Tufted, and scarcely 

 creeping. Stem, in the only Scotch specimen we have seen, about 

 6 inches, in Lapland ones almost a foot high. Leaves short, broad, 

 principally from near the root. Fertile spikelets 2, usually 3, on 

 slender drooping stalks, and of a deep purple-black colour ; barren 

 ones rather smaller, and of a dark rusty-brown. Fruit very obscurely 

 nerved, perhaps nerveless. 



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