410 97. CTPEEACE*. 



peduncles. Gl. ovate, acute, diaplianoiis with a green keel. — 

 Damp woods. P. V. E. S. I, 



63. C. Pseudo-cyperus (L.) ; fertile spikes about 6 drooping 

 cylindrical densely flowered stalked near together, bracts leaflike 

 scm-cely slteathing, gl. setaceous rough dilated at the base, fr. 

 ovoid-lanceolate ribbed narrowed into a deeply hifid leak, nut 

 elliptic, St. triquetrous with roug-h angles. — E. B. 242. Schh. 

 Mm. 102. H.\.m. ie. 275.— St. 2—3 feet high. Male spike 

 often with some fertile flowers. Fertile spike IJ — 2 in. long. 

 — Damp places, rare. P. VI. E. I. 



Ittt Beak of hairy fr. terete or compressed with patent cusps, 

 Male spikes 2 or more. 



64. C. filifor'mis (L.) ; male spikes 2, fertile 8 or 4 remote 

 erect sessile oblong, bracts leaflike lowermost slightly sheathing, 

 gl. oblong-ovate cuspidate and ciliate at the point, fr. downy 

 oblong-ovoid narrowed into an obliquely truncate beak with 2 

 lateral points, nut narrowly ellijjtic subtrigonous, 1. slender chan- 

 neUed.— £■. B. 904. Schk. K. 45. B. 132. B. 265.— St. 2 feet 

 high. L. with filamentous sheaths below. Lowest spike rarely 

 stalked.— Peat-bogs, rare. P. V. E. S. I. 



65. C. kir'ta (L.) ; male spikes 2 or 3, fertile 2 or 3 remote 

 erect ohlong-cylindrical stalked, bracts leaflike the lower with 

 long sheaths nearly equalling the peduncles, gl. elliptic-lanceo- 

 late with long slender ciliate points, fr. hairy oblong-ovate nar- 

 rowed into a deeply divided beak, nut obovate narrowed below 

 triangular, l.Jlat hairy.— B. B. 685. Schk. Uu. 108. S. b. 58. 

 B. 257. — St. Ij — 2 feet high, leafy. L. and sheaths shaggy, 

 rarely glabrous. Fr. tawny. Occasionally the spikes are com- 

 pound at the base and very long-stalked, and the gl. long. — 

 Wet places. P. IV. JIammersedge. E. S. I. 



ttttt Beak of fr. glabrous, terete, striate, with patent cusps, 

 or 2-toothed. Male spikes many, rarely 1. Bracts not 

 sheathing. 



f Male spike 1. Stigmas 2. Beak of fr. 2-tootlied. 



66. C.puVla {Good,.); male spike 1 (rarely 2), fertile 1 — 3 

 roundish-ovoid lower one stalked bracteate sheathless erect, fr. 

 ovoid obscurely veined inflated, beak short, nut roundish muoro- 

 nate, gl. bluntish. — E. B. 2045. Sehk. Cc. 88. C. vesicaria v. 

 alpigena Fr. — St. 6 — 8 in. high. Gl. dark purple tipped with 

 ■white, midrib da?-k purjjle. Fr. dark purple paler at the base, 

 longer than the gl., stalked. — C. saxatilis (Linn. Herb.); but 



