Cdrex."] cvi. cyperace^. 527 



Stem 3—5 ft. high. Well 



cylindrical spikelets, and closely imbricated fruit Athene e\\\nt\n^{ 

 pointed at both ends. euiptical, 



53. C. glauea ^co^ (glaucous Heath C.) ; barren spikelets 

 1-3 fertile 2-3 cylindrical or ovate at length dJ-oopino- 

 densely-flowered on long slender stalks, sheaths short scarcely 

 any, bracteas foliaceous, glumes ovate, fruit obovate-fflobose 

 scabrous or smooth, beak very short entire. -a. fertile spikelets 

 cylindrical, glumes acute. C. recurva Huds ■ Sm E B 

 t. 1506.-^. fertile spikelets cylindrical, glumes obtuse, fruit 

 smaller. C. Micheliana Sm. : E. B. t. 2236. — y. fertile snike! 

 lets ovate. C. stictocarpa Sm. : E. B. S. t. 2772. 



- Moist meadows, moors, groves and alpine rocks. U- 6.— Leave, 



-.i: A^ ? .'''"'''^^ P'^''^'^' brownish when ripe, closely dotted 



with depressed points often pellucid, punctate when young.CaHy 



Ziirr T\ " '"^ "' ^'°^^"^ pubescence, or ratherica tered 

 papillfe, which are sometimes quite wanting in 7. 



vii. Terminal ,piMets ( 1 or more) barren. Fruit hairy or downy. 



Stigmas 3. 



54. C. dandestina Goodep. {dwarf silvery C.) ; barren snikp 

 lets solitary, fertile 1-3 stalked remote about S^Iwered con! 

 cealedby the membranaceous sheaths of the leafless bracteas 

 fruit broad y obovate-triquetrous slightly downy contracted at 

 hebase with an entire oblique mouth, leaves longer than the 

 stems channelled rough rigid. E. B. t. 2124. C. humilis 

 Leyss. C. argentea Vill. •uumiiis 



On the limestone rocks at St. Vincent's, Bristol; Downs, near 

 tT'Zf '^ 'T\ '"'"""tr, ?" S^i'^^'-y I'^-"' between Stone! 



inare. 11 5. _ Remarkable for the few flowers of its fertile snike'- 

 to, wh>ch are concealed by the comparatively lar-^e membranaceous 

 sheaths, as the short stems are by the leaves. The name given by 

 Leysser is unquestionably the oldest, but has been generally aban- 

 doned ,„ favour of the much more expressive one of cl^ndestinl 



55 C.digifdta L. (fingered C.) ; barren spikelet solitary 

 sessile, fertile 2-3 distant on long stalks erect filiform S 

 longer than the barren one, sheaths membranaceous obliquely 

 truncate, lower ones with a setaceous bractea, glumes broadly 

 oboyate apiculate about the length of the fruitf fruit obovate^ 

 triquetrous downy on a short stalk, beak short nearly entire 



leaves nlii no TT + ^ir ' v-wwj- cuLiie 



leaves plane. E. B. t. 615. 



yvldC\!ff r"'^' i" limestone countries. Near Bath and Bristol; 

 Z nCr ^°"niO"thshire ; limestone ledges of Cleeve Hill 4 m 

 from Cheltenham; Thorp-arch and Mackers°.aw wood, Ripon York! 



Leal, \ f-~^'°' ^f ^"ft-'i fibres. Stem 8-10 inches high 

 leaves soft, shorter than the stem. ^ 



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