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sheathing, gl. broadly ovate-acuminate, fr. ovate-rhomboidal tri- 
gonous with an entire mouth, nut obovate narrowed below trigo- 
nous, base of the style surrounded by a prominent ring, stoloni- 
ferous.—E. B. 1099. Schk. F. 27. H.b.24.—St.3—12 in. high. 
Loscgncet spike sometimes slightly stalked.—Dry places. P. 
51. C. montana (L.); fertile spikes 1—3 ovate near together 
sessile, bracts small membranous the lowest with an awlshaped 
point, gl. of fertile spikes obtuse notched and mucronate, fr. nar- 
rowed below oblong-obovate trigonous with a short notched beak, 
nut oblong narrowed below with a pyramidal beak, root fibrous 
from a short rhizome.—E. B. S. 2924. Schk. F.29,  H.b. 21. 
C. collina H. and A.—St. about a span long, slender. L. narrow. 
Gl. very dark; midrib narrowly yellowish. Fr. hairy, its beak 
purple.—Near Tonbridge Wells. Mr. W. Mitten. Wynd Cliff, 
Chepstow. Mr. W. H. Purchas. P. VI. VII. E. 
52. C. pilulifera (L.); fertile spikes about 3 roundish near 
together sessile, bracts small lowest scarcely leaflike awlshaped 
not sheathing, gl. broadly-ovate mucronate, fr. stalked subglobose 
with a short bifid beak, nut subglobose subtrigonous narrowed 
below, root fibrous —E. B. 885. Schk. 1. 39. H. b. 20.—St. 
6—12 im. long, slender, at age decumbent. Base of the style 
enlarged.—Wet heaths. P. V. 
53. C. tomentosa (L.); fertile spikes 1 or 2 nearly sessile cy- 
lindrical obtuse, lowermost bract leaflike with a very short sheath, 
gl. broadly ovate acute, fr. obovate subtrigonous scarcely beaked 
slightly emarginate, nut obtuse trigonous narrowed below with a 
short beak constricted at its base, root creeping.—E. B. 2046. 
Schk. F. 28. H.b. 28.—St. a foot high, with 3 sharp angles, 
rough upwards, erect. Beak of nut slightly swelling upwards. 
Fr. with copious white down, mouth very broad.— Water-mea- 
dows at Merston Measy, Wilts. P. VI. 
+tttt Barren spikes usually more than 1. 
54. C. glauca (Scop.); fertile spikes 2 or 3 erect or drooping 
cylindrical densely flowered long-stalked, bracts leaflike scarcely 
sheathing, gl. ovate acute, fr. obtuse elliptical slightly scabrous 
entire at the small point, nut roundish-ovate triangular.—H. b. 67. 
Schk. O. P. 57. R. 269. C. recurva Huds., E. B. 1506.— 
—Root creeping. St. a foot or more in height. Barren spikes 
variable in number. Fertile spikes often with barren fl. at the 
summit. ‘Stigma sometimes 2.”—. C. Micheliana (Sm.); gl. 
blunt, fr. smaller. E. B. 2236.—y. C. stictocarpa (Sm.); fertile 
spikes ovate, fr. obovate dotted. E. B.S. 2772.—Damp places. 
Pp. VI. 
