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brown, ovoid, smooth, faintly ribbed witli a narrow, rough beak. 

 — Brackish marshes near the sea. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



6i. C. punctata ( Dotted-fruited .Sedge).' — Another nearly allied 

 species, 12 — iS in. high, slender ; glumes pale red with a broad 

 green band down the back ; jruit ox'oid, meml)ranous, swollen, 

 shining, only ribbed at the angles, dotted, longer than the glumes, 

 with a slender, smooth beak. — Marshes, near the sea. — Fl. June, 

 Perennial. 



62. C. fi'tlva (Tawny Sedge). — Another nearly allied species, 

 with a rough-edged stem, 2 or 3 pale pistillate spikelets, which are 

 ovate-oblong; glumes ovate, not mutronate, with transparent 

 tips; jruit broadly ovoid, ribbed, with a rough beak. — Marshes, 

 chiefly at high altitudes. — Fl. June. Perennial. 



63. C. extensa (Long-bracteate Sedge).. — Tufted, rather slender, 

 8— 10 in. high; /^crzif^ very narrow, stiff,, erect, often convolute; 

 spikelets nearly sessile, near together at top of stem, or only the 

 lower one distant, oblong, brown-green ; brads long, narrow, leafy, 

 with short sheaths, the lowest much longer'than the stem ; glumes 

 mucronate ; styles 3-cleft ; jruit ovoid, triangular, strongly- 

 ribbed, tapering into a conical beak. — A sea-coast plant, general 

 round the British Isles. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



64. C. fldva (Yellow Sedge). — Usually' densely tufted and leafy, 

 3 — 18 in. high, acquiring frequently a yellowish hue, especially 

 the pistillate spikelets ; terminal staminate spikelet 6 — 9 lines long ; 

 pistillate spikelets 1, 2 or 3, sessile or shortly stalked, and very near 

 the terminal one, and often one much, lower down on a longer 

 stalk, all erect, ovoid, and when ripe nearly globular ; bracts all 

 leafy and sheathing ; styles 3-cleft ; jruit ovoid, ribbed, beaked, 

 spreading. — Wet places ; frequent. — Fl. May, June. 



65. C. lasiocarpa (Slender Sedge). — Root-stock creeping, with 

 runners; stems i — 3 feet high ; leaves very slender, stiff; stamiuate 

 spikelets 2 or 3, slender, i — 2 in. long, bro_wn ; pistillate spikelets i 

 — 3, remote from them, nearly sessile, .oblong, 6 — 9 lines long, 

 loose-flowered ; styles 3-cleft ; jruit ovoid, with a short 2-fld beak, 

 very downy. — Peat-bogs ; local. — Fl. May. Perennial. 



66. C. hirla (Hairy Sedge or Hammer Sedge). — Root-stock creep- 

 ing, jointed, scaly; ste»is weak, leafy, 1-^2 feet high, and, as well 

 as the leaves, more or less hairy ; terminal stamiuate spikelets i or 

 2 ; pistillate ones 2 or 3, very distant, stalked, cylindric, an inch 

 or more long ; bracts with long sheaths ; fruit tapering into along, 

 2-fid beak, covered with short, sjireading hairs. — Damp woods. — 

 Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



67. C. Psetido-cvperus (Cyperus-like Sedge). — A stout, tufted 

 forni ; stems i — 3 feet high, 3-angled, rough ; leaves broad, long, 



