CAEEX. 397 



gOHous with a truncate beak, nut subglobose trigonous -with no 

 terminal disk or prominent angles, soboliferous. — E. B. S. 2971. 

 Schk. 3. 43i. n.\ 26. B. 262. C. ciliata WUld.— Gl. brown 

 with a broad pale edge, all very blunt. St. 3 — 6 in. high. — 

 Gogmagog Hills, Cambridge. P. IV. V. E. 



46. C. montdna (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 — 3 ovoid cTowAei sessile, 

 bracts small membranous the lowest with an awlshaped point, 



fl. of fertile spikes blunt notched and muoronate, fr. narrowed 

 elow oblong -obovoid trigonous with a short notched beak, nut 

 oblong narrowed below with a pyramidal beak, rootfihroim from 

 a shaggy thick branched rhizome.— .E. B. S. 2924. Schk. F. 29. 

 H. b. 21. -R. 261. C. eollina Willd. — St. about a span long, 

 slender. L. narrow ; sheaths of lower 1. red. Gl. very dark ; 

 midrib narrowly yellowish. Fr. hairy, its beak purple. — Heaths 

 and banks. P. IV. V. E. 



47. C. pihilifera (L.) ; fertile spikes about 3 roundish near 

 together sessile, bracts small Invest scarcely leajlike awlshaped 

 not sheathing, gl. broadly OTatemucronate, fr. stalked subglobose 

 with a short bifid beak, nid subglobose subtrigonous narrowed 

 below, persistent base of stvle recurved, root fibrous. — E. B. 88-5. 

 Schk. J. 39. R. 260.— St. 6—12 in. long, slender, at length 

 decumbent.— Wet heaths. P. V. E. S. I. 



48. C. tomentdsa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 nearly sessile cy- 

 lindrical blunt, lowermost bract lec^ike with a very short sheath, 

 gl. broadly ovate acute, fr. obovoid subtrigonous scarcely beaked 

 slightly emaryinate, met blunt trigonous narrowed below with a 

 short beak constricted at its hose, soboliferous. — E. B. 2046. Schk. 

 P. 28. S. b. 28. R. 263.— St. a foot high, with 3 sharp angles, 

 rough upwards, erect. Beak of nut slightly swelling upwards. 

 Fr. with copious white down, mouth very broad. Water-mea- 

 dows at Merston Measey, Wilts. P. VI. B. 



41 Male spikes usually more than 1. 



49. C glauca (Scop.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 erect or drooping 

 cylindrical densely flowered long-stalked, bracts leaflike scarcely 

 sheathing, gl. ovate acute, fr. blunt elhptic veinless slightly 

 rough entire at the small point, nut roundish-ovate triangular. 

 —H. b. 67. Schk. O. P. 57. R. 269. C. recurva Huds., E. B. 

 1506. — Soboliferous. St. a foot or more in height. Male spikes 

 variable in number. Fertile spikes often have a male fl. at the 

 top. — ^. C. Micheliana (Sm.) ; gl. blunt, fr. smaller. E. B. 2236. 

 — y. C. stietocarpa (Sm.); fertile spikes ovate, fr. obovate dotted 

 E. B. S. 2772.— Damp places. P. VI. E. S. I. 



