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in. Ugh, trigonous, smooth. Ban-en spike nearly sessile, bluilt 

 gl. blunt. Z. and bracts very narrow^ convolute, long. — Mai'shes 

 chiefly near the s6a. P. VI. i - E.S.I 



66. C. fuUva (Good.); fertile spikes oblong distant -syith stalk 

 exceeding the long sheaths of the leaflike bracts, ,gl. acute not 

 mucronate, fr. ovate triquetrous ribbed ' smooth -with'a straight 

 rough-edged bifid beah, raw^'obbvate trigonous nearly smooth. — 

 E. B. 1295 ? R. 252.— St. triahgular, often rough-edged, about 

 a foot high. Barren, spike spindleshaped, acvte ; gl. blunt. Lowest 

 bract frequently, but not always, reaching up to the barren 

 spike. Sometimes creeping. — /3. C. Hornschuchiana (Hoppe) ; 

 fertile spikes oblong on longer Stalks more distant, fr. more 

 intlated and more strongly ribbed, st. trigonous smo.ott' except 

 sometimes near the top, lowest bract longer than its own spike. 

 JI. b. 40. B. 252. C. speirostachya Sm., E. B. S. 2770.— Bo^ct- 

 places. /3. Peaty bogs, chiefly on mountains. P. VI. E..S. I. 



56, C.;jj«MC<ate (Gaud.) ; fertile spikes erect cylindrical with 

 slightly exserted stalks particularly the lowest, bracts sheathing, 

 gl. oVates shortly awned, fr. oVate tumid obscurely veined pellu- 

 cidly punctate with a linear bideutate smooth beah, nut ovate- 

 rhomboidal narrowed at both ends triangular rough.— tH. b. 37. 

 Kunze Riedg. 6. R. 251. — St. smooth, 1 — 2 feet high, slender. 

 Spikes distant or the upper ones near; stalks slightly (the lowest 

 often greatly) exserted, rough ; lowest spike- often very distant. 

 Gl. pale red with a broad green longitudinal dorsal band. Fr. 

 pale. Nut brown. Gl. of barren spike blunt. — Marshy places 

 near the sea. Charlestown, Cornwrall., Dingle, Kerry. Bantry 

 Bay, Cork: Guernsey. P. VI. E, I. 



57. C. dis'tcms (h.) ; fertile spikes remote erect oblong, upper 

 with included stajksj.brficts with sheaths, gl. mucronate,/;-. ovat^ 

 trigonous equally and faintly ribbed pelluoidly punctate smooth, 

 edges of the bitid narrow beak rough, tint triquetrous roughi.sh 

 obovate-narroioedbelow.—E.B. 1234. Schk. T. (38. ' if. 'br42. R. 

 253. — St. smooth, seldom exceeding a foot high, slender. Spikes 

 distant, short; lower ped. half-exserted. Gl. brownish. Fr. 

 yellowish brown, rather inflated ; nut yellowish. Male spike 

 cylindrical, clavate, with blunt glumes. — Marshy places, espe- 

 cially near the sea. P. V. E. S. I. 



58.. C. biner'vis (Sm.); fertile spikes remote, upper ones, nparer 

 together cylindrical their stalks mostly included, lower long with 

 exserted stalks, bracts sheathing, gl. mucronate, fr. ovate subtri- 

 quetrous ivith 2 prominent green siibmargiiml ribs on the bach other 

 ribs faint, beak broad bifid rough atthe edges, md obovate rough- 

 ish. E.B. 12S5. &M. Err. 160. J3;b.,39. -S. 255.— St. trian- 

 gular, smooth, a foot high. Spikes often very, distant ; upper 



