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trigonous with rounded sides slightly notched at the point with 

 scarcely any beak, root creeping. U. B. t. 2046. 



Meadows, near MerstonMeasy, Wiltshire, 7/.. 6. A well marked 



and very rare species, no station but the above-mentioned being 

 known for it in Britain, Achene obtuse with a short beak, constricted 

 at the hase. 



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, 60. C. fliformis L, (slender-leaved C) ; glabrous, barren 

 spikelets 2 with oblong-lanceolate somewhat acute glumes, 

 fertile 2—4 distant nearly sessile oblong-cylindrical, sheaths 

 scarcely any, bracteas foliaceous long and narrow, glumes ob- 

 long-ovate cuspidate, fruit very pubescent ovate-oblong tapering 

 into a short deeply bifid beak, leaves slender channelled, root 

 creeping. E. B. t. 904. 



Boggy marshes, rare ; chiefly found in Scotland. Cheshire, and 

 Anglesea. %, 5. — Stem 1—2 ft. high*. Leaves slender, their 

 margins involute, filamentous at their bases near the roots. Closely 

 allied to C. tomentosa, with which it was confounded by Lightfoot 

 and Hudson. 



61. C. Mrta L. (hairy C) ; hairy, barren spikelets 2—3, 

 fertde 2—3 distant stalked nearly erect cylindrical, sheaths 

 elongated, bracteas long foliaceous, glumes elliptic-lanceolate 

 much acuminate ciliate towards the point, fruit oblong-ovate 

 with a long beak deeply bifid at the point. — ^. lower sheaths 

 elongated nearly equal to the stalks of the oblong cylindrical 

 fertile spikelets. E. B. t. 685.-/3. lower sheaths scarcely 

 half as long as the stalks, fertile spikelets loose-flowered com- 

 pound at the base. 



Wet pastures and woods, frequent $. Inland Ferry, near Du- 

 noon, Argyleshire. Yorkshire? 2^. 5, 6.— S^ems 1— 2 feet high, 

 inore or less hairy in every part, sometimes shaggy, especially on 

 the side of the sheath opposite to the bractea and near the apex : 

 Mr, Bahington, however, mentions a glabrous form with which we 

 are unacquainted. Mr. Turner found a variety in Yorkshire, with the 

 lower part of the fertile spikelets compound at the base ; but we are 

 pot certain if it had the long stalks of our var. j8., sometimes attain- 

 ing 7 inches, although the sheath be not more than 2 inches, being 

 thus protruded 5 inches beyond it. 



viiu Barren spikelets 2 or more. Fruit glabrous or scabrous. Stigmas 3. 



* Bracteas with sheaths. 



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62. C. * hordeifdrmis Wahl. {Barley C) ; barren spikelets 

 usually 2, upper one on a long stalk, fertile 3—4 erect ob- 

 long cylindrical or ovate, upper ones approximate on stalks 

 about^ the length of their sheath, lowermost remote on a stalk 

 sometimes twice as long as the sheath, bracteas long leafy, 

 glumes broadly ovate with a hispid point or obtuse and pointless 

 scanose at the margin, fruit (large) scarcely twice as lon^ as 



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