520 



CVI. CYPERACE^. 



[ Cdrex, 



the scale ovate or oblong acuminate nerved scabrous flat on 

 the one side rounded on the other with two ciliate-serrate 

 winged margins, beak bifid. 



Forfarshire, rare: T. Drummond. 1\.. 6. — We suspect that Mr. 

 Drummond found the specimens among his collecUons, without any 

 memoranda as to where they were gathered, and drew the conclusion 

 that they were obtained in one of his excursions, merely from the 

 other plants accidentally mixed with them. There seems to be no 

 doubt that they were obtained from his own garden, and were among 

 the curiosities which the late Mr. Don had amassed there ; so that 

 the species ought to be expunged from our Flora. 



** Bracteas without sheaths, 



63. C. ampulldcea Gooden. (slender-beaked Bottle C) ; barren, 

 spikelets 2 — 3, fertile 2 — 3 distant shortly stalked cylindrical 

 erect, sheaths none, bracteas foliaceous, glumes lanceolate about 

 half as long as the fruit, fruit crowded somewhat membrana- 

 ceous subglobose inflated striate suddenly contracted into a 

 long narrow beak bifid at the point, stem bluntly triangular. 

 E. B. t. 780. 



Bogs and marshes, more abundant in Scotland than England. 2f . 



6 Differs from C. vesicaria in the smooth and nearly rounded 



stem, in the channelled glaucous leaves, and in the fruit, which is 

 brownish and not half so large, with a narrower beak and of a different 

 shape. According to Andersson this species becomes, at a considerable 

 elevation, C rotundata ; while C, vesicaria becomes C- saxatilis: 

 this last we do not believe. 



64. C. vesicaria L. {short-beaked Bladder C) ; barren spike- 

 lets 2 — 3, fertile 2 — 3 distant stalked cylindrical slightly droop- 

 ing, sheaths none, bracteas foliaceous long, glumes lanceolate 

 much shorter than the fruit, fruit somewhat membranaceous 

 broadly ovate inflated striate gradually acuminated into a sub- 

 ulate beak bifid at the point, stem acutely triangular. E. B. 

 t. 779. 



Bogs and marshes, apparently most frequent in the north. 2/.. 



6, — Stems 1^ — 2 ft. high, acutely angled. Leaves usually broad, 

 sometimes narrow and involute. Fruit tawny, very large, shining, 

 much inflated, but not suddenly constricted. We possess what appears 

 to be an abnormal state of this species, collected by Dr. Greville in 

 England, we believe in Derbyshire, where there are 6 spikelets all 

 fertile, and all except the lowest one approximate. 



, 65. C. paludosa Gooden. (lesser common C.) ; barren spike- 

 lets about 3 with obtuse or slightly cuspidate glumes, anthers 

 with a very minute point or pointless, fertile spikelets about 3 

 cylindrical obtuse erect, sheaths none, bracteas very long foli- 

 aceous, glumes narrow pointed or awned, fruit subcoriaceous 

 ovate or oblong-ovate striate with a short usually bifid beak. 



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C. Kochiana DC, 



