368 96. CYPERACE.E. 
acute on the barren spike, always so on the others, purple with 
a paler dorsal longitudinal band. Fr. green; not yellowish. L. 
broad.—-Marshes and wet thickets, rather rare. P. VI. 
63. C. depauperata (Good.); fertile spikes erect remote with 
3 or 4 fl., ped. exserted, bracts sheathing leaflike, gl. acute, fr. 
large nearly globose, beak long bifid with rough edges, nut elliptical 
trigonous with bluntish’ angles. —E. B. 1098. Schk. M. 50.— 
St. 1—2 feet high, bluntly triangular, smooth. Gl. of the barren 
spike blunt. Known by its very large and few fr. with numerous 
nibs. Spikes very distant—Dry woods, very rare. P. er ‘ 
2 
tt Beak of fr. round or compressed. Barren spikes 1 or more. 
Fr. glabrous, nerved. 
64. C. sylvatica (Huds.) ; fertile spikes about 4 distant slightly 
drooping linear with long half-exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 
sheathing, fr. elliptical triangular obscurely nerved narrowed into 
a long cloven smooth beak, nut obovate-elliptical triangular, 1. 
narrower than in the preceding. —E. B. 995. Schk. Lh. 101. H. 
b. 55. R. 242.—St. about 2 feet high, smooth, its top and the 
fr.-beak rarely a little rough. Sheaths scarcely covering half the 
length of the peduncles. Gl. ovate, acute, diaphanous with a 
green keel Damp woods. P. V. 
ttt Beak of fr. round or compressed with patent cusps. 
Barren spikes many. Fr. hairy, nerved. 
65. C. filiformis (L.); barren spikes 2, fertile 3 or 4 remote 
erect sessile oblong, bracts leaflike lowermost slightly sheathing, 
gl. oblong-ovate cuspidate and ciliated at the point, fr. downy ob- 
long-ovate narrowed upwards into an obliquely truncate beak 
ending in 2 lateral points, nut narrowly elliptical attenuated at 
both ends triquetrous, 1. slender channeled —£. B. 904. Schk. 
K.45. H.b.31. R.265.—St. 2 feet high. L. with filamentous 
sheaths below.—Peat-bogs. P. V. 
66. C. hirta (L.); barren spikes 2 or 3, fertile 2 or 3 remote 
erect oblong-cylindrical stalked, bracts leatlike the lower with 
long sheaths nearly equalling the peduncles, gl. elliptic-lanceolate 
with long slender ciliated pomts, fr. hairy oblong-ovate narrowed 
upwards into a deeply divided beak, nut obovate narrowed below 
triquetrous, 1. flat hairy —E. B. 685. Schk. Uu. 108. H. b. 58. 
R. 257.—St. 13—2 feet high, leafy. L. and sheaths shaggy, 
rarely glabrous. Fr. tawny. Occasionally the spikes are com- 
pound at the base and very long-stalked, and the gl. much 
lengthened.— Wet places. P. IV. 
