CAKEX. 389 



ohlong spike, fr. ovate with 2 — 5 central ribs on the convex side 

 (back), heak bidentate serrulate split to its base and overlap2nn(i 

 on the back, nut turbinate with a very short beak convex, style 

 not thickened at the base, st. trigonous and rough above* — 

 E. B. 1065. Schk. D. 19. T. 69. H. a. 9. R. 222.— Root forming 

 scattered simple tufts. St. 1 — 2 feet high, slender. — ^. C. Ehr- 

 hartiana (Hoppe) ; root more caespitose, spike long rather loose, , 

 St. triquetrous above. Sy. E. B. 620. — Boggy meadows, rare. 

 j8 near Manchester. P. VI. E. S. I. 



14. C. paradox'a (Willd.) ; spikes narrowly panicled lower 

 branches rather distant, fr. ovoid with many short elevated ribi 

 near its base, beak obliquely bidentate serrulate not split nor 

 winged on its back, nut rhomboidal constricted below doubly 

 convex with a short beak, style slightly enlarged at the base, st. 

 trigonous and rough above.— E. B. S. '2896. Schk. E. 21. H. 

 a. 12. a. 222. — Koot densely tufted, crowned with the fibrous 

 remains of decayed leaves. St. 1 — 2 feet high, slender. — Bogs. 

 Near Mullingar, Ireland. Near York. Hoveton, Norfolk. P. 

 VI. VII. E. I. 



15. C paniculdta (L.) ; spikes panicled with long diverging 

 branches, /r. ovoid faintly many-veined with a bifid fringed beak 

 split to its base and overlapping on the back, nut ovoid blunt nar- 

 rowed below plane-convex, beak slightly thickened upwards, st. 

 triangtdar.—E. B. 1064. Schk. D. 20, Ttt. 163. H. a. 19. 

 JR. 223. — Root forming dense elevated tufts. St. stout, 2 — 3 

 feet high. Panicle usually large and spreading or reduced to a 

 slender compound (or even simple) spike. Bracts all much 

 shorter than the spike. — ^Bogs. P. VI. E. 8. I. 



ttt Spikelets male at their base (or at both ends). 

 X Sohole far-creeping. 



[C brizoides (L.) ; spikelets about 5 contiguous curved, fr. 

 lanceolate plane-convex biiid at the end deeply split on the 

 back serrulate from near the base, gl. rather shorter than the 

 fruit.— IT. a. 23. B. 207.— St. 1 ft. high. Gl. acute, silvery 

 brown. L. long, slender, equalling or overtopping the spikes. 

 — Studley Wood, Yorkshire ! Not found lately. Introduced ? 

 P. vn. ?] E. 



%X Ccespitose. Bracts leailike. Lower spikelets distant, simple nr 

 compound. 



16. C. Boenninghausenidna (Weihe) ; spikelets several upper 

 ones simple crowded lower distant alternaiely branched, fr. lan- 

 ceolate plane-convex tapering serrulate from below the middle, 

 ieak deeply split on one side, nut ovoid elliptic, gl. equalling the 



