362 96, CYPERACE®. 
sider that name as belonging to C. riyida.—Wet parts of the 
higher Scottish mountains. P. VI. 8. 
37. C. Grahami (Boott); barren spikes 1 or 2 slender acute, 
fertile 2 or 3 ovate obtuse lower one stalked bracteated sheath- 
less, fr. oblong-ovate nerved inflated narrowed into a short bifid 
beak, gl. acute.—E. B. §. 2923.—St. 1—2 ft. high. Gl. fuscous 
with the tip and midrib pale. Fr. pale or darkish brown, nearly 
twice as long as the gl., with several strong ribs on each side. 
Nut too young in all my specimens.—Glen Fiadh, Clova. Ben 
Cruban, Killin. P. VII. 8. 
*ek* Terminal spike barren. Stigmas 3. Beak of fr. short, 
membranous or none. 
+ Fy. glabrous. Spikes erect. Barren spike 1. 
38. C. pallescens (L.); fertile spikes ovate or oblong with 
exserted stalks approximate, bracts leaflike, gl. mucronate, fr. 
ovate-oblong convex on both sides striated obtuse, beak 0, nut 
linear-elliptical narrowed at both ends trigonous.— FE. B, 2185. 
Schk. Kk. 99. H. b. 44.—St. slender, acutely triangular, rough 
above, 1—13 foot high. Spikes obtuse, pale green, the barren 
one sessile darker. —Marshy places. P. VI. 
39. C. panicea (L.); fertile spikes remote subcylindrical with 
distant fl. on exserted stalks, bracts leaflike sheathing, gl. rather 
acute, fr. ovate-subglobose inflated with a short terete truncate 
beak, nut obovate-oblong bluntly trigonous with a cylindrical 
beak.—E. B. 1505. Schk. Ll. 100. H. b. 33.—St. 1—2 feet 
high, erect, smooth. Fertile spikes about 2. Gl. oblong, more 
or less acute, dark brown with a green keel and membranous 
pale margins. Lowermost bract about as long as its spike, the 
rest shorter, sheaths close——Marshy places. P. VI. 
40. C. vaginata (Tausch!); fertile spikes remote with distant 
fl. on exserted stalks, bracts sheathing scarcely leaflike, gl. blunt- 
ish, fr. ovate triquetrous glabrous with a short terete smooth very 
obliquely truncate and emarginate beak, nut elliptical triangular 
“with a beak slightly thickened upwards.”—H. b. 17. Kunze 
Riedg. 15. C. pheostachya Sm., BE. B. 8.2731. C. Meilichoferi 
Sm., E. B. 2293.—St. 5—6 in. high, smooth. Fertile spikes 
1—2. Glumes bluntish. Bracts with funnelshaped sheaths.— 
Highland mountams. P. VII. s. 
tt Fr. glabrous. Spikes laxly pendulous, barren 1. 
41. C. limosa (L.); fertile spikes 1 or 2 upon very long stalks 
ovate densely-flowered with occasionally a few barren fl. at their 
summit, bracts auricled slender strongly keeled, gl. ovate mucro- 
nate, fr. roundish-obovate compressed strongly ribbed with a very 
