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or roughish above. Gl. lanceolate, acute, brown with a paler 
membranous margin. Fr. yellowish Meadows. P. VII. 
ttit Rhizome far-creeping. 
25. C. brizoides (L.); spikelets about 5 contiguous curved, fr. 
lanceolate plane-convex bifid at the end and serrulate from near 
the base, gl. rather shorter than the fruit.—H. a. 23. R. 207.— 
St. 1 ft. high. Gl. acute, silvery brown. L. long, slender, equal- 
ling or overtopping the spikes.—Studley Wood, Yorkshire. Mr. 
W. Mac Ivor. Vil. 2 : E. 
ui. Heterostachye. Spikes separate, terminal barren or an- 
drogynous, the rest fertile. 
* Terminal spike androgynous. Stigmas 3. Fr. scarcely 
beaked. 
26. C. Vahlii (Schk.) ; spikes 1—4 roundish or oblong conti- 
guous nearly sessile, fr. obovate triquetrous scabrous above with 
a short notched beak longer than the ovate rather acute glumes, 
nut obovate triquetrous blunt with a short cylindrical beak, bract 
scarcely overtopping the spikes, st. triangular rough towards the 
summit.— HE. B. 8. 2666. Schk. Gg. 94.and Ppp. 154. R. 235.— 
St. 6—12 in. high, erect. Gl. brown or black.—Glen Callater 
and Glen Fiagh, Clova. P. VII. 8S. 
27. C. Buxbaumii (Wahl.); spikes 3—4 oblong sessile conti- 
guous, the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, fr. oval obtuse 
compressed (ultimately trigonous) bidentate subscabrous above 
shorter at the base of the spike than the cuspidate glumes, nut 
obovate trigonous blunt apiculate, lower bract leaflike—E. B. S. 
2885. H.b. 11. Schk. X. and Gg. 76. R. 235.—St. 1—2 feet 
high, triquetrous, rough. Sheaths of the l. connected by netlike 
filaments. Gi). nearly black with a green keel prolonged into a 
cuspidate point. Fr. glaucous-green.—Dr. Boott has shown that 
this is the true C. canescens (L.), but it 1s better not to change 
the name by which it is universally known.—Island near Toom 
bridge in Lough Neagh. P. VI. IL. 
28. C. atrata (L.); spikes 3—4 ovate-oblong shortly stalked 
contiguous ultimately drooping, the lowest rather distant and 
with a longer stalk, fr. elliptical-triquetrous with a short terete 
slightly notched beak broader but not longer than the acute glumes, 
nut elliptical triquetrous blunt apiculate, lower bract leaflike— 
E. B. 2044. Schk.X.77. H.b. 8. R. 237.—St. 1—1} ft. high, 
triangular, smooth. L. flat, broad. Gl. dark purple; midrib 
slender, pale. Fr. yellowish.—Alpine rocks. P. VI. VIL—E. 8S. 
