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feet high ; flat haves, and less distant s^ikelets, and the lowest 

 spikclet is either branched, or there are % or 3 together ; glumes 

 broader, rigid. — Marshes ; rare. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



20. C. Boenninghaimdna, possibly a hybrid between C. remota 

 and C. paniciiUla, has slender, rough ^tems, i — 2 feet high ; 

 spikelets small, in a spike sometimes a fobt long, the upper ones 

 simple, the lower branched, without bractg, and with pale silvery- 

 brown, smooth, membranbus glumes. —Marshes ; 

 rare. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



21. C. elongdta (Elongated Sedge). — Tufted, 

 without runners ; steins numerous, slender, about 

 2 feet high, rough, leafy ; leaves long, narrow, 

 flat, flaccid ; spikelets many, pale greenish-brown, 

 oblong, touching one another, without bracts ; 

 jruit spreading, linear-oblong, beaked, not winged, 

 2 lines long. — Marshes \ rare. — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



22. C. appyoximdta (Hare's-foot Sedge). — A 

 tufted plant, with short runners ; steins wiry, 

 I -10 in. high, jangled, smooth; leaves flat; 

 spikelets 2 — 4, small, fuscous, ovoid, touching 

 one anotlier, with minute bracts ; fruit erect, 

 elliptic, not winged, with a short beak ; glumes 

 reddish, ovate, nearly as long as the fruit. — ■ 

 Lofty mountains in Aberdeenshire ; very rare. — 

 Fl. [uly, August. Perennial. 



23. C. canescens (White Sedge). — Tufted, 

 without runners ; stems slender, 12 — iS in. high ; 

 leaves nut ([uite as long; spikelets .\ — 8, some 

 distance apart, elliptical, 3 or 4 lines lung, pale 

 green ; glumes membranous, whitish, with a 

 green keel ; //•'/;/ erect, broadly ovate, com- 

 pressed, acute, with a Sihort beak, faintly ribbed, 

 not longer than the gkmies. — Bogs ; common. — 

 Fl. June, July, l^erennial. 



24. C. heh'ola, probably a hybrid, diflers in 

 having fewer spikelets, few-flnwered ; glumes browner ; fruit with a 

 deeply 2-fid beak. — Mountain bogs in the north. 



25. C. lepnrina (Oval-s|iiked Scdgt}.— Stems about a foot high, 

 loosely tufted at the base, without runners ; leaves shorter, 

 narrow, flat, with line points ; s/vkelels about 6, sessile, distinct, 

 but close together, ovoiil, pale browniSh-green, shining, abbut 

 4 lines long, with a few staminate flowers at the base of 

 each ; fruit yellowish, erect, owatc-acumiiiate, with a membranous 



c.4re\* leporixa 

 (Oval-spikcd Sidgt). 



