CABEX. 399 



spike nearly sessile, blunt ; gl. Hunt. L. and hracts very narrow, 

 convolute, long. — ^Marshes, chiefly near the sea. P. VI. 



E. S. I. 



64. C fuVva (Good.) ; fertile spikes oblong distant with staUa 

 exceeding the long sheaths of the leaflike bracts, gl. acute not 

 mucronate, fr. ovoid triquetrous ribbed smooth with a straight 

 rough-edged bifid beah, nut obovoid trigonous nearly smooth. — 

 E. B. 1295? B. 441, 442. R. 252.— St. triangular, often 

 rough-edged, about a foot high. Barren spike spindleshaped, 

 acute; gl. blunt. Lowest bract frequently, but not always, 

 reaching up to the barren spike. Nuts often abortive. Some- 

 times creeping. — /3. C. Hornschuchiana (Hoppe) ; fertile spikes 

 oblong on longer stalks more distant, fr. more inflated and more 

 strongly ribbed, st. trigonous smooth except sometimes near the 

 top, lowest bract longer than its own spike. H. b. 40. R. 252. 

 C. speirostachga Sm., JE. B. 8. 2770.— Boggy places. /3. Peaty 

 bogs, chiefly on mountains. P. VI, E. S. I. 



55. 0. punctdta (Gaud.) ; fertile spikes erect cylindrical with 

 slightly exserted stalks particularly the lowest, bracts sheathing, 

 gl. ovate shortly awned, fr. spreading ovoid tumid obscurely 

 veined pellucidly punctate with a linear bidentate smooth beah, nut 

 ovoid-rhomboidal narrowed at both ends triangular rough. — H. 

 b. 37. Sunze Riedg. 6. -K. 251.— St. smooth, 1—2 feet high, 

 slender. Spikes distant or the upper ones near ; stalks slightly 

 (the lowest often greatly) exserted, rough ; lowest spike often 

 very distant. Gl. pale red with a broad green longitudinal 

 dorsal band. Fr. pale. Nut brown. Gl. of barren spike blunt. 

 — Marshy places near the sea. P. VI. E. S. I. 



56. C. dis'tans (L.) ; fertile spikes remote erect oblong, upper 

 with included stalks, bracts with sheaths, gl. mucronate, fr. 

 ascending ovoid trigonous equally and faintly ribbed pellucidly 

 punctate smooth, edges of the bifid narrow beak rough, nut 

 triquetrous roughish obovoid narrowed below. — B. B. I234. 

 Schk. T. 68. S. b. 42. R. 253.— St. smooth, seldom exceeding 

 a foot high, slender. Spikes distant, short; lower ped. half- 

 exserted. Gl. brownish. Fr. yellowish brown, rather inflated; 

 nut yellowish. Male spike cylindrical-clavate, with blunt 

 glumes. — ^Marshy places, especially near the sea. P. V. E.S.I. 



57. C. biner'vis (Sm.) ; fertile spikes remote, upper ones nearer 

 together cylindrical th eir stalks mostly included, lower long with 

 exserted stalks, bracts sheathing, gl. mvicronate, fr. ovoid subtri- 

 quetrous with 2 prominent green submarginalribs an the back other 

 nbs faint, beak broad bifid rough at the edges, mtt obovoid lovigh- 

 ish.— ^. .B. 1236. Schk.na. 160. S.h.Sd. 22. 265.— St. trian- 



