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32. C. atrdta (L.) ; spikes 3 — 4 ovate-oblong shortly stalked, 

 contiguous ultimately drooping, the lowest rather distant and, 

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

 slightly notched beak, glumes acute, md elliptic triquetrous blunt 

 apiculate, lower bract leaflike. -B. 5. 2044. Schk.X. 77. S.h.S. 

 R. 237. — St. 1 — Ij foot high, triangular, smooth. L. flat, broad. 

 Gl. dark purple ; midrib slender, pale. Fr. yellowish. Mr. H. 0. 

 Watson mentions a form with the term, spike wholly male and 

 the fem. spikes cylindrical and 2 — 3 in. below it. — Alpine rooks. 

 P VI. VII. E. S. 



\X Fruit glabrous. Terminal spihe wholly male, solitary. 



33. C. palles'eens (L.) ; fertile spikes subpendulous ovate or 

 oblong with exserted stalks contiguous, bracts leaflike, gl. mu- 

 cronate, fr. ovoid-oblong convex on both sides veined bhmt, beak 

 0, nut linear-elliptic trigonous. — E. B. 2186. Sy. E. B. 1657. 

 Schk. Kk. 9.9. H. b. 44. — St. slender, triquetrous, rough above 

 1 — 15 foot high. Spikes blunt, pale green; the barren one 

 sessile, darker. — Marshy places. P. VI. E. S. 1, 



34. C panicea (L.) ; fertile spikes erect remote subcylindrical 

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

 rather acute, /r. ovoid su,bglobose inflated veinless with a short 

 terete truncate beak, nut obovoid-oblong trigonous with a cylin- 

 drical beak— X B. 1505. Schk. LI. 100. H. b. 33.— St. 1—2 

 ft. high, erect, smooth. Fertile spikes about 2. Gl. oblong, more 

 or less acute, dark brown with a green keel and membranous 

 pale margins. Lowermost bract about as long as its spike, the 

 rest shorter, sheaths close. — ^Marshy places. P. VI. E. S. I. 



35. C. vagindta (Tausch !) ; fertile spikes erect remote on ex- 

 serted stalks with distant fl., bracts sheathing scarcely leaflike, 

 gl. bluntish, /)•. ovoid triquetrous glabrous veinless with a short 

 terete smooth very obliquely truncate and etnarginate beak, nut 

 elliptic triangular " with a beak slightly thickened upwards." — H. 

 b 17. Kunze Riedg. 15. 5.478. C.pheeostaehya8m.,E.B.S. 

 2731. C. Meilichoferi Sm., E. B. 2293.— St. 5—6 in. high, 

 smooth. Fertile spikes 1 — 2. Glumes bluntish. Bracts with 

 funnelshaped sheaths. — Highland mountains. P. VII. S. 



36. C. limdsa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 upon very long stalks 

 droopinf ovate densely-flowered " with occasionally a few male 

 fl. at their top," bracts auricled slender strongly keeled, gl. ovate 

 mucronate,/r. roundish-obovoid compressed strongly ribbed with 

 a very short entire beak, nut obovoid bluntly trigonous with a 

 beak I nn7-rowlineaT channelled rough at the edges vaTOushout.^ 

 E. B. 2043. R. 238. B. 216.— Creeping. St. 1 ft. high. L. 

 and bracts very slender. Gl. purple, with a green keel, about 



