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ovate, dark brown with a green keel and whitish edges, "blunt, 

 sometimes apiculate. Upper spikelets' crowded, lower lax but 

 not distant. — 13.: C. Gebhardi (R.) ; smaller, spikelets short 

 panicled. — Marshes, rare. P. VI. ' E. I. 



22. C. onr'ta (Good.) ; spikelets 4—6 elliptic contig-uous,/?-. 

 ereot acute plane-convex faintly striate, beak short notched not. 

 splif rough at the edges, nut ellijitic beak yeiy short style, per- 

 sistent, glumes ovate , shojter than the fruit.^-E £. 1386. 

 Schk. C. 13. 0. canescens Linn.? R. 206. — St. a foot high, 

 triq^uetrous, smooth except at the top. Lowermost spikelet 

 often with a setaceous bract. Glumes membranous, whitish with 

 a green keel, blunt, apiculate. '. Fr. whitish. — Bogs. P. VI. 



E.S. I. 



23. C. vit'ilis (Fx.); spikelets 4 — 8 ovateor oblong contiguous, 

 fr, erect ovate plane-convex faintly striate,- beak short split to its 

 base externaUy i-ovL^ at the edges, . " nut elliptic," glumes ovate 

 shorter than the fruit., — 0. oUrta^. alpicola JTaM 0. Persoonii 

 Sieb., R. 206. — Creeping, St.- 6-^12 in. high, triquetrous, smooth 

 except at the top.' Lowermost spikdet often with a setaceotis 

 bract. 61. membranoiLg, Sroww with a white margin. — Moun- 

 tains. P. VIL vin. E. s. 



14 Spikes fuscous. 



24. C laffopina (Waid.); spikelets, S — 4 roundish-elliptic 

 contiguous terminal one longer, fr. erect elliptic acuminate 

 plane-convex narrowed below nearly entire at the point with 

 smooth edges, nut elliptic tipped with the persistent style, gl. 

 ovate nearly as long as the fruit. — H. a. 24. R. 205. C. lepo- 

 rina Litm. Fl. Lap. not Fl. Suec. K S. 8. 2815.— St. 43-g in.' 

 high, smooth, triangular. Glumes reddish with the edges paJef. 

 Fr. vellow. — Loch na Gar, and Cairn Toul, Aberdeenshire. P. 

 VlII. ',,'■■" ' ' , ■^• 



25. C. ovdUs (Good.); spikelets about) Q oval contiguousy/r. 

 ereot ovate-attenuate plane-oonyex narrowed below bifid sAi the 

 point with membranous- edges sM^datesthoye, nut elliptic -with 

 a short cylindrical beak ending 'in a persistent style, gl. lanceo- 

 late as long as the fi-uit. — E. B. 306. Schk. B. 8. 0. leporina. 

 H. a. 22, R. 211. — St. 1^2 feet 'high,' triangular, smooth, or. 

 roughish above. Gl; acute, brown with a paler membranous 

 margin. Fr. yellowish. — ^Meadows. P. VII. E. S. I. 



iii. Heterodachym. One or more terminal spikes whoUy or 

 rarely only partially male; ofthers axillaiy fertile. (Sp. 26 — 70 j. 



* Beak of fr, short, entire or emarginate or shortly 2-tootfied. 

 + Nut plane-convex. , Stigmas 2 — 3. Male spikes 1 .or more. , 



