386 96. CTPEEACEiE. 



vein^ witfp an obliquely truncate month, nut eUiptiO' triangular 

 punctured, 1. broad.— ^. B. 994 SchK N. 53.— St. 2 feet high. 

 Sheaths nearly covering the peduncles. Gl. elliptic-lanceolate, 

 diaphanous, greenish down the back. — Groves and thickets, rare. 

 P. V. VI. ■• ■' E.S.I. 



42. C. peridula (Huds.) ; fertile spilies drooping about 5 distant 

 cylituhical very long densely-lowered, bracts leaflike lower ones 

 with^sheaths nearly equalling the flowerst'alks, upper scarcely 

 sheathing, fr. elliptic subtrigonous tumid mth a short trigonous 

 emarginate beak, nut elliptic triangular. — JS, B. 2315. Schk. Q. 

 00. B. 243. — St. 3^-6 feet high, rough at the angles above. 

 Fertile spikes often 3 or 4 in. long, arched; upper onesfrequently 

 with.male fl. at the tip. Gl. ; ovate, mucronate, brow*ll with a 

 green keel.. 'Fr... green, ciliate at the mouth. — Bamp woods. P. 



V. :.■••, ,.,.-.'. E.S.I. 



IliXl Fruit downy, hairy or geahrotis.' Bracts sheathitig. L. in 

 sterile tufts. Male spike solitary. 



43. C. humilis (Leyss.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3, remote about 3- 

 fl'owered enclosed in the menibranous sheathing leafless bracts, fr. 



obovate subtrigonous narrowed below with an entire obliquemauth', 

 nut obovate trigonous w;ith a short beak. — S. b. 15. C. clan- 

 djistifiadodi., E. ^. 2124'. Schk K. 43. £. 239.— St. about 

 2 in. high, erect, concealed amongst the leaves. Bracts large, 

 wholly membranous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. ' L. ' all 

 radical, linear, channelled, rdugh.-^Limestone hills in Wilts and 

 Somerset. P. IV. E. 



44. G digitdtd(L.)] fertile spikes 2' or ^ distant linear erect 

 lax, bracts raevahrajious- sheathing obliquely truncate, lowermost 

 with a setaceous lenjtike ponit, fr. ' ohoy&te trigonous narrowed 

 bfelpW equalling gl., beak shoH nearly entire, J' nut elliptic-ob- 

 long triarigiilar shortlv-stalked and shortly-beaked." — E. B. 615. 

 Mk. H. 38. IT. b. 14.— St. 6—8 in. high, erect, sheathed' at 

 the base, leafless, taller than the. fiat raijipal leaves. — Woods on 

 limestone,, rare. P. IV. V. , , E. 



XXXt Fr. hairy &r downy or scabrous. Bracts not sheatl^ing 

 {Except slightly in No. 49). — J. Male spike 1. 



45. C. pirt^cbx (Jacq.) ; fertile spikes 1—8 oblonff-ovoid near 

 together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest leaflike and slightly 

 sheathing, gl. broadly ovate acmnimte '>vith escurrent midrib, fr. 

 ovate-rhotyiboidal tngonous with an entire mouth, nut obovate 

 narrowed below trigonous with prominent aijgles, base of the 

 style surrounded by a cuplike disk, sobolifej-ous. — S. B 1099 

 Schk..F. 27. JI. h.2i. i2. 261.— St 3-4-12 in. high. Lowr- 

 most spike often slightly, stalked.- — Dry plafcesi' P. IV. V 



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