390 96. CYPEEACE*. 



stalks ofren quite included, never mucli exserted, lower often 

 greatly. exserted. Qh dark purple; midrib greenisli yellow. ,Fr. 

 brown or deeply tinged with purple, 3- .prgjuinent ribs always 

 green : nut brown. Male spike with blunt glumes. — Dry heaths. 

 P. VI. VII. ' •" '•''■'■••'' E.S. I. 



§9. C. fcK«]7«te,(Sm.) ;, fertile spifi-es iemote..c7/lindrical, stalks 

 more or less exserted, bracts sheathing, gl. acute,/?;, -ovate atte- 

 nuate striate, beak , long deeply bifid with rough edges, nut sub- 

 pyriform nawowed below triangular smooth, t—.^. B. 1387,' i$chk. 

 Bbh. 116.' & Sss„162. H.X 38, i2.,25^,— St. smooth, 2— 3 feet 

 high, iSpikes distant, erect or drooping. Gl. pften acute on the 

 male spike, always, so on the others, pu^'ple with a paler dorsal 

 longitudinal band.,, Ea,rely 2 male spikes. Fr. green ; nut yel- 

 lowish, . L, broad. — Marshes and wet thickets, rather rare. P. 

 Vl. E. S. I. 



60. C. depauperdta (Good.) ; feitile spikes erect remote 3- or 

 4r-fl., stalks exserted, bracts sheathing leaflike, gl. acute, /r. lari/e 

 nearly globose, beak long bifid with rough edges, nut elliptic 

 trigonous with bluntish angles. — E. B. 1098. Schh. M. 50. — St. 

 1-^2 feet high, ^rigoiious, snlooth. Gl. of the male spike blunt. 

 Fr. very large and fe>sr with mp,ny ribs. Spikes very distant. — 

 pry woods, very rare. P. VI. E. 



ittt Beak of fr. glabrous, terete or compressed. Male' spike 

 1 (rarely more). Stignias 3. 



61. C. sylvat'ica (Huds.); fertile spikes abbut4 distant slightlj' 

 drooping linear with long' half-exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 

 sheathing, fr. elliptic trigonous obscurely veined narrowed into a 

 long cloven smooth heah, nut ohovate-elliptic-triangular, 1. nar- 

 rower than in the preceding. — E. B. 995. Schk. LI. 101. S. b. 

 -55. R. 242. — St. about 2 feet high, smooth, its top and the fr.- 

 beak rarely a little rough. Sheaths scarcely half equalling the 

 peduncles. Gl. ovate, acute, diaphanous with a green keel. — 

 Damp woods. P. V. E. S. I, 



62. C. Pseu^jo-cyp^rus (L.) ; fertile spikes about 5 drooping 

 cylindrical densely flowered stalked near together, bracts leatiike 

 scarcely sheathing, gl. setaceous rough dilated at the base, fr. 

 ovate-lanceolate ribbed narrowed into a deeply bifid beak, nut 

 elliptic, St. triquetrous with rough a,ngles. — JE. B. 242. Schk 

 Mm. 102. £[. b. 66. B. 275.— St. 2—3 feet high. .Aiale spike 

 qften with some fertile flowers. Fertile spike 1^-2 in. lono'. — 

 Damp places, rare. P. VI. " lE. T. 



tttt Beak of hairy fr. terete or compressed with patent cu,*p.s. 

 JIale spikes 2 or more. 



63. C.fiUfor'mvi (L.) ; male spikes 2, fertile 3 or 4 remote 

 erect sessile oblong,' bracts leaflilre lowermost slightly sheathinff 



