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radical, flat, shorter, revolute ; siaminate spikelet terminal, 6 lines 

 long ; pistillate spikelets close together, 2 or 3, shortly stalked, 

 spreading in a finger-like manner ; flowers lax ; brads brown and 

 sheathing ; styles 3-cleft ; fruit obovoid, and minutely downy. — 

 Woods on limestone ; rare. — Fl. April, May. Perennial. 



.;i. C. ornithopoda (Bird's-foot Sedge), a closely allied form 

 with broader brads and longer fruit, occurs in Derbyshire and 



Yorkshire. — Fl. May — July. 

 Perennial. 



42. C . humilis (Dwarf Silvery 

 Sedge). — A creeping, tufted 

 species ; steins i — 5 in. high ; 

 leaves longer, stiff, involute, 

 curved ; staminate-spikelet termi- 

 nal, about 9 lines long ; pistillate 

 ones 3 — 5, much smaller, 

 stalked,- placed at intervals on 

 the stem, scarcely protruding 

 from the sheath of silvery mem- 

 branous bracts ; glumes with 

 membranous ed'ies , styles long, 

 3-cleft ; fruit ovoid, obtuse, rib- 

 bed, slightly downy, —Limes tone 

 hills in the south-west ; rare.^ 

 PI. May, June, Perennial. 



43. C. moutdna (Mountain 

 Sedge).. — A creeping, tufted 

 species, with slender stems, 

 6 — iS in. high ; narrow leaves; 

 spikelets, few, sessile, crowded, 

 bright red - brown, polished ; 

 Iruit obovoid, hairy, longer 

 than t|,ie glumes, witli a short, 

 notched beak. — Heaths and 

 woods in the south. — Fl. .April, 

 May. Perennial. 



44. C. pUulifera (Round-headed Sedge). —TuUimI, with fe\y 

 slender steins, 6 — 12 in. high, 3-anglecI, rough ; leaves shorter, 

 broad, weak, and flexible ; pistillate sp'ikelets 2 oy 3, globose, 

 sessile, close under the terminal staminatt, one ; bracts short, leafy; 

 f!_liimes brown, broadly ovate, pointed ; siyles 3-cleft ; fruit small, 

 nearly globular, shortly beaked. — \A'et heaths ; common. — Fl. 

 May — July, Perennial, 



45. 'C. ertcelurum (Heath Sedge),— A creeping, tufted plant ; 



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