374 96. CYPERACE^. 



XXt Fruit glabrous. Several barren spikes. Fertile spikes 

 drooping. 



42. C. capillaris (L.) ; fertile spikes upon long stalks half in- 

 cluded /cw-/ow;ered lax, one bract sheathing several flowerstalks, 

 gl. blunt, fr. oblong trigonous turgid narrowed below veinless 

 terminating in a slender membranous beak, nut obovate trique- 

 trous blunt with a short beak. — E. B. 2069. Schk. 0. 66. H. 

 h. 53. R. 241. — St. very slender, 2 — 6 in. high, smooth. Pedun- 

 cles rough, several usually inclosed in one sheath. Gl. short, 

 broad, blunt, midrib not reaching the tip, falling short of the 

 small smooth brown fruit. Nut pale. Root tufted. — Teesdale. 

 Scottish Highlands. P. VI. E. S. 



43. C strigosa (Huds.) ; fertile spikes about 4 distant rather 

 long slender lax lower with exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 

 sheathing,/r. oblong-lanceolate narrowed at both ends trigonous 

 veined with an obliquely truncate mouth, nut elliptical triangular 

 punctured, 1. broad.— £. B. 9.94. Schk. N. 53.— St. 2 feet high. 

 Sheaths covering nearly the whole length of the peduncles. Gl. 

 elliptic-lanceolate, diaphanous, greenish down the back. — Groves 

 and thickets, rare. P. V. VI. 



44. C.pendula (Huds.) ; fertile spikes about 5 distant cylin- 

 drical very long densely-flowered, bracts leaflike lower ones 

 with sheaths nearly equalling the flowerstalks upper scarcely 

 sheathing, fr. elliptical subtrigonous tumid with a short trigo- 

 nous emarginate beak, nut elliptical narrowed at both ends trian- 

 gular.— E. B. 2315. Schk. Q. 60. R. 243. C. Agastachys Ehrh. 

 H. b. 57. C. maxima Scop. — St. 3 — 6 feet high, rough at the 

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

 ones frequently with barren fl. at the tip. Gl. ovate, mucronate, 

 brown with a green keel. Fr. green, ciliated at the mouth. — 

 Damp woods. P. V. 



X+t+ Fruit downy, hairy or scabrous. Bracts sheathing. L. in 

 sterile tufts. Barren spike I. 



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

 flowered inclosed in the membranous sheathing leafless bracts, fr. 

 obovate subtrigonous narrowed below with an entire oblique mouth, 

 " nut obovate triangular with a short beak." — H. b. 15. C. clan- 

 destina Good. E. B. 2124. Schk. K. 43. R. 239.— St. about 

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

 wholly membranous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. L. ail 

 radical, linear, channeled, rough. — Limestone hills in Wilts and 

 Somerset. P. IV. E. 



46. C. digitata (L.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 distant linear erect 

 lax, bracts membranous sheathing obliquely truncate lowermost 



