394 97. CTPEEACE^. 



32. C. atrdta (L.) ; spikes 8—4 ovate-oblong shortly stalied 

 contiguous ultimately drooping, the lowest rather distant and 

 with a longer stalk, fr. elliptic veinless with a short terete 

 slightly notched leak, glumes acute, nut elliptic triquetrous blunt 

 apiculate, lower bract leaflike. E. B. 2044. Schh. X. 77. H. b. 8. 

 R. 237. — St. 1 — 1 J foot high, triangular, smooth. L. flat, broad. 

 Grl. dark purple ; midrib slender, pale. Fr. yellowish. Mr. H. 0. 

 Watson mentions a form with the term, spike wholly male and 

 the fem. spikes cylindrical and 2 — 3 in. below it. — Alpine rocks. 

 P. VI. m E. S. 



X% Fruit glabrous. Terminal spike wholly male, solitary. 



33. C. palles'cens (L.) ; fertile spikes subpendulous ovate or 

 oblong with exserted stalks contiguous, bracts leaflike, gl. mu- 

 cronate, fr. ovoid-ohlong convex on both sides veined bltmt, beak 

 0, nut linear-elliptic trigonous. — -B. i?. 2185. Sy. E. B. 1657. 

 Schk. Kk. 99. S. b. 44. — St. slender, triquetrous, rough above 

 1 — 15 foot high. Splices blunt, pale green ; the barren one 

 sessile, darker. — Marshy places. P. VI. E. S. I, 



34. C panicea (L.) ; ferUle spikes erect remote subcylindiical 

 on exserted stalks luith distant Jl., bracts leaflike sheathing, gl. 

 rather acute, fr. ovoid subglobose irtflated veinless with a short 

 terete truncate beak, nut obovoid-oblong trigonous with a cylin- 

 drical beak.— ^. B. 1505. Schk. LI. 100. S. b. 33.— St. 1—2 

 ft. high, erect, smooth. Fertile spikes about 2. Gl. oblong, more 

 or less a»ute, dark brown with a green keel and membranous 

 pale margins. Lowermost bract about as long as its spike, the 

 rest shorter, sheaths close. — Marshy places. P. VI. E. S. I. 



35. C. vagindtu (Tausch) !) ; fertile spikes erect remote on ex- 

 serted stalks with distant fl., bracts sheathing scarcely leaflike, 

 gl. bluntish, fr. ovoid triquetrous glabrous veinless with a short 

 terete smooth very obliquely truncate and emarginate beak, nut 

 elliptic triangular " with a beak slightly thickened uptvards." — H. 

 b. 17. Kunze Siedg. 15. B.i78. C. phceostacJiy a Sm., S. £. S. 

 2731. C. Meilichoferi Sm., E. B. 2293.— St. 5—6 in. high, 

 smooth. Fertile spikes 1 — 2. Glumes bluntish. Bracts with 

 funnelshaped sheaths. — Highland mountains. P. VII. S. 



36. O. limdsa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 upon very long stalks 

 drooping ovate densely -flowered " with occasionally a few male 



Jl. at their top," bracts auricled slender strongly keeled, gl. ovate 

 mucronate, fr. roundish-obovoid compressed strongly ribbed with 

 a very short entire beak, nut obovoid bluntly trigonous vrith a 

 beak, I. narrow linear channelled rough at the edges throughout. — 

 E. B. 2043. R. 238. B. 216.— Creeping. St. 1 ft. high. L. 

 and bracts very slender. Gl. purple, with a green keel, about 



