400 97. CTPEEACEiE. 



gular, smooth, a foot high. Spikes often very distant ; upper 

 stalks often quite included, never much exserted, lower often 

 greatly exserted. Gl. dark purple; midrib greenish yellow. Fr. 

 brown or deeply tinged with purple, 2 prominent ribs always 

 green; nut brown. Male spike with blunt glumes.— Heaths 

 and Moors. P. VI. VII. E. S. I, 



58. C leEviffdta (Sra.) ; fertile spikes remote cylindrical, stalks 

 more or less exserted, bracts sheathing, gl. acute, fr. ovoid atte- 

 nuate striate, beak long deeply bifid with rough edges, nut sub- 

 pyriform narrowed helow triangular smooth. — E. B. 1387. Schk. 

 Bbb. 116 & Sss. 162. JT.b.SS. -ffi. 254.— St. smooth, 2— 3 feet 

 high. Spikes distant, erect or drooping. Gl. often acute on the 

 male spike, always so on the others, purple with a paler dorsal 

 longitudinal band. Rarely 2 male spikes. Fr. green ; nut yel- 

 lowish, L. broad. — Marshes and wet thickets, rather rare. P. 

 VI. E. S. I. 



59. C. depauperdta (Good.) ; fertile spikes erect remote 3- or 

 ^-fl; stalks exserted, bracts sheathing leaflike, gl. acute, /r. large 

 nearly globose, beak long bifid with rough edges, nut elliptic 

 trigonous with bluntish angles. — E. B. 1098. Schk. M. 50. — St. 

 1 — 2 feet high, trigonous, smooth. Gl. of the male spike blunt. 

 Fr. very large and few with many ribs. Spikes very distant. — 

 Dry woods, very rare. P. VI. E. 



ttt Beak of fr. glabrous, terete or compressed. Male spike 

 1 (rarely more). Stigmas 3. 



60. C syhat'ica (Huds.) ; fertile spikes about 4 distant slightly 

 drooping linear with long half-exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 

 sheathing, fr. elliptic trigonous obscurely veined narrowed into a 

 long cloven smooth beak, nut obovoid-elliptic-triangular, 1. nar- 

 rower than in the preceding.— ^. 5. 995. Schk.'Ll.iai. H.h. 

 55. -R. 242. — St. about 2 feet high, smooth, its top and thefr.- 

 beak rarely a little rough. Sheaths scarcely half equalling the 

 peduncles. Gl. ovate, acute, diaphanous with a green keel. — 

 Damp woods. P. V. E. S. 1, 



61. C. Pseudo-cyp4rus (L.) ; fertile spikes about 5 drooping 

 cylindrical densely flowered stalked near together, bracts leaflike 

 scarcely sheathing, gl. setaceous rough dilated at the base, //•. 

 ovoid-lanceolate ribbed narrowed into a deeply bifid beak, nut 

 elliptic, St. triquetrous with rough angles. — E. fi. 24!?. Schk. 

 Mm. 102. H. b. 56. R. 275.— St. 2—3 feet high. Male spike 

 often with some fertile flowers. Fertile spike Ij — 2 in. long. — 

 Damp places, rare. P. VI. , E. I. 



