364 96. CYPERACES. 
46. C. strigosa (Huds.); fertile spikes about 4 distant rather 
drooping slender lower ones with exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 
sheathing, fr. oblong-lanceolate narrowed at both ends triangular 
nerved with an obliquely truncate mouth, nut elliptical triangular 
punctured, 1. broad.—E. B. 994. Schk. N. 53.—St. 2 feet high. 
Sheaths covering nearly the whole length of the peduncles. 
Spikes laxly-flowered. Gl. elliptic-lanceolate, diaphanous, green- 
ish down the back.—Groves and thickets, rare. P. V. VI. 
47. C. pendula (Huds.); fertile spikes about 5 distant droop- 
ing cylindrical very long densely-flowered, bracts leaflike lower 
ones with sheaths nearly equalling the flowerstalks upper scarcely 
sheathing, fr. elliptical subtriquetrous tumid with a short trigo- 
nous emarginate beak, nut elliptical narrowed at both ends trian- 
gular.— BE. B. 2315. Schk.Q. 60. R.243. C. Agastachys Ehrh. 
H.b. 57. C. maxima Scop.—St. 3—6 feet high, rough at the 
angles above. Fertile spikes often 3 or 4 in. long; upper ones 
frequently with barren fl. at the summit. Gl. ovate, mucronate, 
brown with a green keel. Fr. green, ciliated at the mouth.— 
Damp woods. P. V. 
ttt Fr. hairy. Bracts sheathing. L. in sterile tufts. Base 
of st. leafless. Barren spike 1. 
48. C. humilis (Leyss.); fertile spikes 2 or 3 remote about 3- 
flowered inclosed in the membranous sheathing leafless bracts, fr. 
obovate subtrigonous narrowed below with an entire oblique mouth, 
* nut obovate triangular with a short beak.”—H.b. 15.  C. clan- 
destina Good. HE. B. 2124. Schk. K. 43. R. 239.—St. about 
2 in. high, erect, concealed amongst the leaves. Bracts large, 
wholly membranous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. L. all 
radical, linear, channeled, rough.—Limestone hills in Wilts and 
Somerset. P. IV. E. 
49. C. digitata (L.); fertile spikes 2 or 3 distant linear erect 
lax, bracts membranous sheathing obliquely truncate lowermost 
with a setaceous leaflike point, fr. obovate triquetrous narrowed 
below equalling gl., beak short nearly entire, “nut elliptic-oblong 
triangular shortly-stalked and shortly-beaked.”—E. B. 615. 
Schk. H. 38. H.b. 14.—St. 6—8 in. high, erect, sheathed at 
the base, leafless, taller than the flat radical leaves.—Woods on 
limestone, rare. P.IV. V. E. 
ttt Fr. hairy or downy. Bracts not sheathing (except in 50). 
St. densely leafy at the base. Barren spike 1. 
50. C. precox (Jaeq.); fertile spikes 1—3 oblong-ovate near 
together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest leaflike and slightly 
