CAEEX. 407 



rougli entire at the small point, nut roundish-ovate triangular. 

 —R. b. 67. 8chh. 0. P. 57. R. 269. C. recurm Huds., E. B. 

 1606. — Soboliferous. St. a foot or more in height. Male spikes 

 variable in number. Fertile spikes often have a male fl. at the 

 top.— ^. C. MicheKana (Sm.) ; gl. blunt, fr. smaller. E. B. 2236. 

 — y. C stictocarpa (Sm.) ; fertile spikes ovate, fr. obovate dotted. 

 je. .B. -S. 2772.— Damp places. P. VI. E.S.I. 



** Beah offr. long, l-toothed or hifd. Nut with 3 angles. 

 Stigmas 3, rarely 2. (Sp. 51 — 71.) 



t Beak of fruit terete. Terminal spike male. 



51. C. lestuldta (Wahl.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 4 upon short stalks 

 ovoid densely flowered, bracts scarcely leaflike or sheathing, gl. 

 ovate acute, /?•. elliptic compressed rough-edged with a cloven 

 beak, nut elliptic triangular on a long stalk, root fibrous. — E. B. 

 2404. Schk. Y. 82. I£. b. 47.— St. 3—10 in. high. L. very 

 short, broad. Gl. dark purple with a slender pale midrib. Fr. 

 dark purple, paler below. Nut fuscous. — Ben Lawers. Mr. G. 

 Don. SeeSy.E.B.^.lS7. P. VII. S. 



tt Beak of fruit plane-convex. Male spike 1, or rarely 2. 

 Fruit glabrous. Bracts sheathing, leaflike. 



62. C. frigida (All.) ; fertile spikes fusiform upper sessile 

 lower ultimately pendulous long-stalked, bracts sheathing leaf- 

 like, gl. acute, fr. lanceolate triquetrous gradually narrowed into 

 a ciliate-serrate bifid beak, nut ovate triquetrous, st. triangular 

 smooth..— Edin. Bot. Tr. xii. t. 2. J. of B. xiii. t. 159.— St. 3— 

 12 in. high. L. broad, paraUel-sided when young. — Above 

 Loch Ceann-mor, Aberdeenshire. P. VIII. S. 



53. C.fldva (L.) ; fertile spikes roundish-oval subsessile, low- 

 est spike with a nearly included stalk, bracts leaflike with short 

 .sheaths, gl. blunt, fr. ovate inflated ribbed smooth narrowed 

 into a d^exed rough-edged bifid beak, nut obovoid trigonous 

 punctate, st. trigonous smooth. — E. B. 1294. Schk. H. 36. S. 

 p. 22. B. 273.— St. 6—12 in. high. L. broad. Male spike cy- 

 ftWn'eaZ, blunt; gl. blunt. Fertile spikes usually near together 

 and near the barren spike, sometimes distant ; gl. with a green 

 midrib slightly rough and often excurrent at the end. Beak of 

 the fr. curved downwards parallel-sided when young. Lowest 

 fr. declining. — /3. C lepidocarpa (Tausch !) ; barren spikes usually 

 long-stalked, beak of fr. often nearly straight. — %. E. B. 1673. 

 KunzeBiedgr. IS. J2. 272.— Wet places. P. V. VL E. S. L 



54. C. CE'«fen'(Ehrh.) ;/e?*'fe«p«'te roundish-ovate subsessile 

 near together, lowest spike with an included stalk, bracts leaflike 



