358 96. CYPERACES. 
notched not split rough at the edges, nut elliptical, beak very 
short style persistent, glumes ovate shorter than the fruit.— 
E. B. 1386, Sehk.C.13. C. canescens H.a.31. R. 206.—St. a 
foot high, triquetrous, smooth except at the top. Lowermost 
spikelet often with a setaceous bract. Glumes membranous, 
whitish with a green keel, blunt, apiculate. Fr. whitish.—Bogs. 
P. VI. 
21. C. vitilis (Fr.); spikelets 4—8 ovate or oblong approxi- 
mate, fr. erect ovate plane-convex faintly striate, beak short split 
to its base on one side rough at the edges, “ nut elliptical,”’ glumes 
ovate shorter than the fruit.—C. curta 8. alpicola Wahl., H. and 
A. C. Persoonii Sieb., Bab., R. 206.—Creeping. St. 6—12 in. 
high, triquetrous, smooth except at the top. Lowermost spikelet 
often with a setaceous bract. Gi. membranous, brown with a 
white margin.—Mountains. P. VII. VIII. E. 8. 
tt Czspitose. Spikes yellowish. 
22. C. elongata (L.); spikelets numerous oblong approximate, 
fr. patent oblong-acuminate plane-convex with many ribs on both 
sides, beak almost entire with rough edges, nut linear-oblong 
tapering below beak very short style persistent, gl. shorter than 
the fruit, bracts none or one very short.—E. B. 1920. Sehk. E. 25, 
H. a. 32. R. 218.—St. 1—2 feet high, triquetrous. Gl. ovate, 
dark brown with a green keel and whitish edges, obtuse some- 
times apiculate. Upper spikelets crowded, lower lax, the interval 
between them not exceeding their own length.—8. C. Gebhardi 
(R.); smaller, with short panicled spikelets Marshes, rare. 
P. VI. ELI. 
ttt Cespitose. Spikes fuscous. 
23. C. lagopina (Wahl.); spikelets 3—4 roundish-elliptical 
contiguous terminal one longer, fr. erect elliptical acuminate 
plane-convex narrowed below nearly entire at the point with 
smooth edges, nut elliptical tipped with the persistent style, gl. 
ovate nearly as long as the fruit.—H. a. 24. R. 204. C. lepo- 
rina Linn. Fl. Lap. not Fl. Suec. E. B.S. 2215.—St. 4—8 in. 
high, smooth, triangular. Glumes reddish with the margins 
paler. Fy. yellow.—Loch na Gar, and Cairn Toul, Aberdeenshire. 
P. VITI. 8. 
24. C. ovalis (Good.); spikelets about 6 oval contiguous, fr. 
erect ovate-attenuaie plane-convex narrowed below bifid at the 
point with membranous margins serrulate above, nut elliptical with 
a short cylindrical beak terminating in the persistent style, gl. 
lanceolate as long as the fruit. E. B.306. Schk. B. 8. C. lepo- 
rina H, a, 22, R. 211.—St. 1—2 feet high, triangular, smooth 
