372 96. CYPERACE^. 



rather than C. acufa. — Hehden Bridge, Yorkshire : said to be 

 ijow lost by drainage. P. VI. K. 



tt Nut with 3 angles. Stigmas 3, rarely 2. 



I Fruit glabrous. Terminal spike barren at its base. 



3;3. C. Vahlii (Schk.) ; spikes 1—4 roundish or oblong conti- 

 guous nearly sessile, /r. obovate veinless scabrous above viith a 

 short notched beak, gl. acutish falling short of fr., nut obovate 

 triquetrous blunt with a short cylindrical beak, bract scarcely 

 overto])ping tlie spikes, st. triangular rough tovi'ards the toj). — 

 Ji. B. S.2li66. Schk. Gg. 94. and Ppp. 154. E. 235.— St. 6— 12 

 i.i. liigh, erect. Gl. brown or black. — Glen Callater and Glen 

 Kagh, Clova. P. VII. S. 



34. C. Buxbaumii {Vi'uld.) ; spikes 3 — 4 oblong sessile conti- 

 guous, the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, /r. oval obtuse 

 compressed (ultiinately ttigonous) bidentate subscabrous above 

 veined, gl. cii.-.jiidiite lower exceeding fr., nut obovate trigonous 

 blunt apiculate. lower bract leaflike. — E. B. S. 28^5. H. b. 11. 

 Sclik. X. and Gg. /(i. R. 2.j5. C. canescens, Linn. Herb. — St. 

 1 — - feet high, triquetrous, rough. Sheaths of the I. connected 

 by netlike filaments. 01. nearly black, with a green keel pro- 

 1 inged into a cuspidate point. Fr. glaucous-green. — Island near 

 Toom bridge in Lough Neagh. P. VI. I. 



35. C. atrata (h.); spikes 3 — 4 ovate-oblong shortly stalktd 

 contiguous ultimately drooping, the lov.est rather distant and 

 with a longer stalk, fr. elliptical veinless with a short terete 

 slightly notched beak, glumes acute, nut elliptical triquetrous 

 blimt apiculate, lower bract leaflike.— £. B. 2(144. Schk. X. 77. 

 H. b. 8. R. 23/.— St. 1—1 J ft. high, triangular, smooth. L. 

 flat, broad. Gl. dark purple; midrib slender, piJe. Fr. yellowish. 

 -Alpme rocks. P.YI. VII. E. S. 



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Fruii glabrous. Terminal spike wholly barren, solitary. 



36. C. palk'Sceus (L.) ; fertile spikes subpendulous ovate or 

 oblong with exserled stalks approximate, bracts leaflike, gl. niu- 

 cronnte, fr. ovate-oblong convex on both sides veined obtuse, 

 beak 0, nut linear elliptical narrowed at both ends trigonous. — 

 E. B. 2185. Schk. Kk. 99. H. b. 44.— St. slender, triquetrous, 

 rough above, I — 15 foot high. Spikes blunt, j)ale green; the 

 barren one sessile, darker. — Marshy places. P. VI. 



37. C. panicea iXi.); fertile spikes erect remote su)ocy\miti:icaX 

 on exserted stalks with distant ji., bracts leaflike sheathing, gl. 

 rather acute, Jr. ovate-subglohose inflated veinless with a short 

 terete truncate beak, nut obovate-obloug trigonous with a eyliu- 



