404 97. CTPEEACB^. 



as long as the pale fr. -which is broadest above the middle. Nut 

 pale. — Spongy bogs, P. VI. E. S. I. 



37. C. irrig'ua (Hoppe) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 drooping upon 

 long stalks oblong densely-flowered with occasionally a few 

 malefl. at their base, bracts auricled leaflike rather broad nearly 

 flat, gl. ovoid-lanceolate attenuate acute,/r. roundish-ovoid com- 

 pressed faintly ribbed with a very short entire beak, nut elliptic 

 triangular with a beak, Z. linear ^ai smooiA at the erf^es except 

 near the tip.— .£^. B. S. 2895. R. 238. B. 219.-^Creeping. 

 St. a foot or more in height. L. and bracts 2 or 3 times as 

 broad as in the preceding. Ol. wholly purple usually longer than 

 the pale fr. which is broadest below the roiddle. Nut pale.^ 

 Spongy bogs. Muckle Moss, Northurab. TeiTegles, Dumfries. 

 Ben Mime near Loch Lomond. P. VI. E. S. 



38. C. rarifldra (Sva.) ; fertile spikes 2 or S drooping upon 

 long stalks oblong few-fiowered lax, bracts with very short sheaths, 

 gl. very broad blunt as long as the fr., fr. oblong with 3 blunt 

 angles, beak extremely short entire, nut roundish-oblong, 1. flat 

 rough-edged towards the tip. — E. B. 2516. B. 217. — Creeping. 

 St. 6 — 8 in. high, smooth. Gl. folded round the fr., iaxkhrowa ; 

 midrib pale, terminating in a minute apiculus. Fr. pale, faintly 

 veined; nut darker. — Elevated bogs in highlands. P. VI. S. 



39. C. capilldris (L.) ; fertile spikes drooping upon long half- 

 included &ts\ks feiv-Jlowered lax, one bract sheathing several stalks, 

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

 with a slender membranous beak, nut obovoid triquetrous blunt 

 with a short beak.— ^. B. 2069. Schk. 0. 56. H.h. 63. R. 241. 

 ■ — St. very slender, 2 — 6 in. high, smooth. Peduncles rough, 

 several usually enclosed 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. 



40. C. strigSsa (Huds.) ; fertile spikes drooping about 4 distant 

 rather long slender lax lower with exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 

 sheathing, fr. oblong-lanceolate naiTOwed at both ends trigonous 

 veined with an obliquely truncate mouth, nut elliptic triangidar 

 punctured, 1. broad.— ^. B. 994. Schk. N. 53.— St. 2 feet high. 

 Sheaths nearly covering the peduncles. Gl. elliptic-lanceolate, 

 diaphanous, greenish down the back. — Groves and thickets, rare. 

 P. V. VL E. S. I. 



41. C pen 'dula (Huds.) ; fertile spikes drooping about 6 distant 

 cylindrical very long densely flowered, bracts leaflike lower ones 

 with sheaths nearly equalling the flowerstalks upper scarcely 



