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*** Fertile spikelets elongated (sometimes short in 53), stalked, drooping. 



f Beak of fruit bijid. 



49. C. sylvdtica Huds. {pendulous Wood C.) ; barren spike- 

 lets solitary, fertile about 4 filiform rather slender loose- 

 flowered slightly drooping, stalks about twice as long as the 

 elongated sheaths, bracteas foliaceous, glumes ovate acute 

 diaphanous with a green keel, fruit broadly ovate acuminate 

 beak long smooth cleft at the point, leaves narrow E 7?' 

 t. 995. ' ^' 



Moist woods, frequent. 1^. 5, 6.— Similar to C. strigosa; but the 

 spikelets are shorter, broader, and on longer stalks ; fruit y^ry different 

 glabrous, and so acuminate as to ternninate in a long heak. Glumes 

 longer in proportion. Spikelets sometimes compound. Linn^us tells 

 us that this plant, when carded and dressed, is employed by the Lap. 

 landers to protect their feet from the cold. 



50. C. Pseudo'Cijperus L. {Cyperus-lilie C.) ; barren spikelets 

 solitary, fertile 3—6 densely-flowered cylindrical upon lono- 

 footstalks drooping, bracteas very leafy, lowermost sometimes 

 sheathing the others *' ' ^ 



without sheaths, glumes setaceous sea- 





brous, fruit oblong very much acuminate ribbed, beak Ion 

 deeply cloven. E. B t. 242. 



Moist places, by the sides of lakes and ponds ; not very general. 

 2f. e.— Stems 2—3 feet high, acutely triangular. Leaves'^ an 

 inch broad. One of the best marked, and most beautiful of%he 

 genus. 



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solitary, fertile about 4 slender filiform loose-flowered nearly 



erect, the lower stalks a little longer than the 



elongated 



sheatlis upper about equal to their bracteas foliaceous, cfumes 

 elliptic-lanceolate diaphanous with a green keel, fruit oblontr. 

 lanceolate acuminate at both ends nerved slightly recurved 

 truncate at the point, beak scarcely any, leavel rather broad. 

 hi. B. t. 994. 



Groves and thickets, in several parts of the' east and middle of 

 England. Cottereli wood, Cheshire. Arniston woods, Edinb. 21. 

 5, 6. — Stem 1—2 feet high. Glumes a little shorter than the 

 fruit. 



52. C pendula Huds. (great pendulous C.) ; barren spikelets 

 solitary, fertile 4— 6 cylindrical densely-floweredvery lono-and 

 drooping, sheaths nearly equal to the stalks lower elongated 

 upper very short, glumes ovate mucronate, fruit ovate with a 

 short trigonous notched beak, leaves broad. E. B. t. 2315. 



Moist wooded and shady places, not very general, if. 5 6. 



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