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like erect overtopping the stem, /r. elliptic letltioiilar ■?«<*<»< 

 veins broader than the gl., nut oblong narrowed below with a 

 short slender beak, st. trigonous smooth. — E. B. S. 2758. — St. 

 1 — 4 ft. high, with convex faces. Spikes rather distant. GL' 

 usually shorty nan-ower than the yellowish-green fr., reddish 

 pulyle with a pale midrib. — Alpine boggy ta,ble-lands of the 

 Clova Mountainsahd in the valley by'the bridge at Olova. P. 

 VII. ■ S. 



80. C. vulgdris (Fries) J Spikes ereci;,' 'male 1 or % fertile 3 — 4 

 subsessile cylindrical, bracts with shoxt awn'cfes leaflike,' /r. elUptAa 

 plane-convex with many veins below and a short entire beak, 

 nut roundish very blunt, st. triquetrous rough towards the top. 

 — C. ccespitosa Smi, M. IB. 1607. C. Ooodenovii Qaj. — St. slbout 

 a foot high. L, slender, not keeled, >BractS' vsdthout sheaths'. 

 Spikes near together, short. Gl. blunt, shorter than fr,, purpte; 

 keel slender, pale green, Fr. greenish or with a purple tinge. 

 Nut rather broader than long, — Marshes, P. V. Vl.' ' E. S. I. 



[C. Oibsdni (Bab.); spikes erect, male 1, fertile 2 — 4 oblong 

 narrowed downwards slightly Stalked,' bracts with short auricles 

 leaflike, /r. fc;iceoZ«i§ «««<«. vsd'th.many veins not reaching, the 

 summit, niit broadly obovate very blunj with a .short thick beak, 

 st. triquetrous rough, towards the to^.^—A. N. H. xi! t. 5, — St. 

 6 — 8 in. high. -L. flat, not keeled; sheaths, not" filamentous^; 

 lowest leaflets. Lowest bract long. Spikes lax below. Glumes' 

 falling short of .the &,, oblong, blunt, purplish brovm with a 

 broad green band up the midrib ; on the male spike paler, obo^ 

 vate-laiiceolate. Perianth nearly twice as long as the nut, gradu- 

 ally narrowed from belftw. the^middle to. the, top. Nut,ra,ther 

 broader thfin;long, — Nearly allied, I think, tp C. vulgaris r&thei 

 than C. acuta. — Hebden Bridge, Yorkal^ire : said t^o be now lost 

 bydrainage. P.,'VI.] 'i,, :-^ E. 



tt Nut with 3 a,ngles. Stigmas 3, rarely 2.' 

 J Fruit glabrous. Terrrtinal spike male at 'its' base. 



31. C. VahUii (Schk.) ; Spikes 1 — 4 roundish or oblong conti- 

 guous nearly sessile, fr. obovate veinless rough above with a 

 short notched beak, gl. aoutish falling shbftof fr., nut obovate 

 triquetrous blunt vrith a short cylindrical beak, bract Scarcely 

 overtopping the spikes, st, triangular rough towards the top, — 

 E. B. S. 2'6'66. Schk. Gg, 94, & Ppp, 154, B. 235, 0, alpina 

 Boon's Care.T, t. 356,— St, 6 — 12 in, high, erect, Gl: brown or 

 black.— Glen Callater and Glen Fiagh, Clova. P. VII. S, 



32. C. Biabaum^ii (Wahl.) ; spikes 3 — 4 oblong sessile cdati- 

 guous, the lowest shortly staJked rathecj distant,/?-. ,ovalhlnnt 



