CAKEX. 405 



sheathing,/?-, elliptic subtrigonous tumid with short trigonous 

 emarginate leak, nut elliptic triangular.— X B. 2.315. Schh. Q, 

 60. .R. 243. — St. 8 — 6 feet high, round at the angles above. 

 Fertile spikes often 3 or 4 in. long, arched ; upper ones frequently 

 ■with male fl. at the tip. Gl. ovate mucronate, brown with a 

 green keel. Fr. green, ciliate at the mouth. — Damp woods. P. 

 V. E. S. I. 



XXX Fruit downy, hairy or scabrous. Bracts sheathing. L. in 

 sterile tufts. Male spike solitary. 



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

 fiowered enclosed in the membranous leafless bracts, fr. obovoid 



subtrigonous narrowed below vdth an entire oblique mouth not 

 obovoid, trigonous, with a short beak. — H. b. 15. C. clandestina 

 Good., ^.5.2124. Schk.K.'iS. i2. 239.— St. about 2 in. high, 

 erect, concealed amongst the leaves. Bracts large, wholly mem- 

 branous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. L. all radical, linear, 

 channelled, rough. — Limestone hills in "Wilts and Somerset and 

 Dorset. P. IV. E. 



43. C. omithop'oda ( W.) ; fertile spikes 3 near together suberect 

 exceeding male spike, bracts membranous leafless, fr. pyriform 

 trigonous with a subemarginate mouth exceeding the glumes, 

 nut elliptic subtrigonous shortly stalked with a minute beak.; — 

 J. of B. xiii. 1. 164. B. 240. — St. 3 — 5 in. high, scarcely exceed- 

 ing the flat bluntish radical leaves. Bracts much falling short 

 of fertile spikes.— Millers Dale, Derbyshire. P. V.— VII. E. 



44. C. digitdta (L.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 distant linear erect 

 lax, bracts membranous obliquely truncate, lowermost loith a seta- 

 ceous leaflikepoirtt,fr. obovoid trigonous narrowed below equaUing 

 gl., beak short nearly entire, " nut elliptic-oblong triangular 

 shortly-stalked and shortly-beaked."— .E. B. 615. Schk. H. 38. 

 H. b. 14. — St. 6 — 8 in. high, erect, sheathed at the base, leafless, 

 taller than the flat radical leaves. — Woods on limestone, rare. 

 P. IV. V. E. 



XXXX ^'- ^iw "'■ '^'""y <"■ scabrous. Bracts not sMathing 

 {except slightly in No. 49). — t Male spike 1. 



45. Cprce'cox (Jacq.); /erfife spikes 1 — 3 oblong-ovoid near 

 together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest leaflike and slightly 

 sheathing, ^rZ. broadly ovate acuminate with excurrent midrib, /r. 

 mioid-rhomboidal trigonous with an entire mouth, nut obovoid 

 narrowed below trigonous with prominent angles, base of the 

 style surrounded by a cupKke disk, soboliferous. — E. B. 1099. 

 Schk. F. 27. H. b. 24. R. 261.— St. 3— "12 in. high. Lower- 

 most spike often slightly stalked. — Dry places. P. IV. V. 



E. S. I. 



