402 97. CTPERA.OME. 



veins broader than the gl., nut oblong narrowed below with a 

 short slender beak, si. triffonous smooth. — S. B. S. 2758. — St. 

 1 — 4 i't. high, with convex faces. Spikes rather distant. Gl. 

 usually short, narrower than the yellowish-green fr., reddish 

 purple with a pale midrib. — Alpine boggy tablelands of the 

 Clova Mountains and in the valley bv the bridge at Olova. P. 



vn. " s. 



29. C. vulgaris (Fries) ; spikes erect, male 1 or 2, fertile 3 — 4 

 subsessile cylindrical, bracts vnth short auricles leaflike,/r. elliptic 

 plane-convex with many veins below and a short entire beak, 

 nut roundish very blunt, st. triquetrous rough towards the top. 

 — C. ccesjntosa bm., H. B. 1507. C Ooodenovii Gay. — St. 

 about a foot high. L. slender, not keeled. Bracts without 

 sheaths. Spikes near together, short. Gl. blunt, shorter than 

 fr., purple ; keel slender, pale green. Fr. greenish or with a 

 purple tinge. Nut rather broader than long. — Marshes. P. V. 

 VI. E.S.I. 



[ C Gibsdni (Bab.) ; fr. lanceolate acute, nut broadly obovoid. — 



A. iV. S. xi. t. 5. — St. 6 — 8 in. high. Perianth nearly twice as 

 long as the nut, gradually narrowed from below the middle to the 

 top. Perhaps a montrosity of C. vulgaris. — ^Hebden Bridge, 

 Yorkshire ! Not recently found. P. VI.] E. 



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



J Fruit glabrous. Terminal spike male at its base. 



•30. C. alp'ina (Sw.) ; spikes 1 — 4 roundish or oblong conti- 

 guous nearly sessile, fr. obovoid veinless rough above with a . 

 short notched beak, gl. aoutish falling short of fr., nut obovoid 

 triquetrous blunt with a short cylindrical beak, bract scarcely 

 overtopping the spikes, st. triangular rough towards the top. — 



B. t. 356. 0. Vahlii B. B. iS. 2666. Sohk. Gg. 94 & Ppp. 154. 

 B. 235.— St. 6—12 in. high, erect. Gl. brown or black.— Glen 

 Callater and Glen Fiagh, Olova. P. Vn. S. 



31. C Buxbaum'ii (Wahl.) ; spikes 3 — 4 oblong sessile conti- 

 guous, the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, fr. oval blunt 

 compressed (ultimately trigonous) bidentate roughish above 

 veined, gl. cuspidate lower exceeding fr., nut obovoid trigonous 

 blunt apiculate, lower bract leaflike. — B. B. S. 2885. H.h.U. Schh. 

 X. &Gg.76. iJ.23.5. ^.438.— St. 1—2 feet high, triquetrous, 

 lough. Sheaths of the I. connected by netlike ^laments. Gl. 

 nearly black, with a green keelprolonged into a cuspidate point. 

 Fr. glaucous green.— -Harbour Island near Toom Bridge, Lough 

 Neagh. P. VI. I. 



