396 97. CTPBEACEiE. 



with, sheaths nearly equalling the flowerstalks upper scarc'ely 

 sheathing, /r. elliptic subtrigonous tumid with a short triffonous 

 emarginate beak, nut elliptic triangular. — E. B. 2315. Schh. Q. 

 60. JR. 243,— St. 3—6 feet high, round at the angles above. 

 Fertile spikes often 3 or 4 in. long, arched ; upper ones frequently 

 with male fl. at the tip. Gl. ovate, mucronate, brown with a 

 green keel. Fr. green, ciliate at the mouth. — Damp woods. P. 

 V. E. S. I. 



XXX Fruit downy, hairy or scabrous. Bracts sheathing. L. in 

 stey'ile tufts. Male spike solitary. 



42. C. hiindlis (Leyss.) ; fertile spikes 2 or S remote about 3-- 

 flowered enclosed in the membranous sheathing leafless bracts, fr. 



obo void subtrigonous narrowed below with an entire oblique mouth, 

 niit obovoid trigonous with a short beak. — H. b. 15. C. clan- 

 d-estina Good., JS. S. 2124, Schk. K. 43. It. 239.— St, about 

 2 in. high, erect, concealed amongst the leaves. Bracts large, 

 wholly membranous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. L. all 

 radical, linear, channelled, rough. — Limestone hiUsin Wilts and 

 Somerset. P. IV. ' E, 



43. C. digitdta (L.) ; fertile spikes 2 or S distant linear eiect 

 lax, bracts membranous sheathing obliquely truncate, lowermost 

 with a setaceous leaflike point, fr. obovoid trigonous narrowed 

 below equalling gl., beak short nearly entire, "nut elliptic-ob- 

 long triangular shortly-stalked and shortly-beaked.''— -B. B. 615, 

 Schk. H. 38. H. b. 14.— St. 6—8 in. high, erect, sheathed at 

 the base, leafles.<i, taller than the flat radical leaves. — Woods oil 

 limestone, rare. P. TV. V. E, 



XXXX Fr. hairy or downy or scabrous. Bracts not sheathing 

 {except slightly in No. 48). — ^ Male spike 1. 



44. C. proe'cox (Jacq.) ; fertih spikes 1 — 3 oblong-ovoid near 

 together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest leaflike and slightly 

 sheathing, gl. broadly ovate acumitMte with excurrent midrib, yr. 

 OKdid-rhomboidal trigonous with an entire mouth, nut obovoid 

 navrowed below trigonous with prominent angles, base of the 

 .style surrounded by a cuplike disk, soboliferous. — B. B. 1099. 

 Schk. F. 27. H. b. 24. B. 261.— St. 3—12 in. high. Lower- 

 most spike often slightly stalked. — Dry places. P. IV. V. 



E. S. L 



45. C. ericetiSrmn (Poll.) ; fertile spikes 1 — 3 ovoid near to- 

 gether sessile, bracts clasping all membranous, gl. obovate very 

 blunt finely ciliate midrib not reaching the top, fr. obovoid tri- 



