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CYPERACE^E 



brown, ovoid, smooth, faintly ribbed with a narrow, rough beak. 

 — Brackish marshes near the sea. — Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



61. C. punctata (Dotted-fruited Sedge). — Another nearly allied 

 species, 12 — 18 in. high, slender; glumes pale red with a broad 

 green band down the back ; fruit ovoid, membranous, swollen, 

 shining, only ribbed at the angles, dotied, longer than the glumes, 

 with a slender, smooth beak. — Marshes near the sea. — Fl. June. 

 Perennial. 



62. C. fulva (Tawny Sedge). — Another nearly allied species, 

 with a rough-edged stem, 2 or 3 pale pistillate spikelets, which are 

 ovate-oblong; glumes ovate, not mucronate, with transparent 

 tips; fruit broadly ovoid, ribbed, with a rough beak. — Marshes, 

 chiefly at high altitudes. — Fl. June. Perennial. 



63. C. extensa (Long-bracteate Sedge). — Tufted, rather slender, 

 8—18 in. high; leaves very narrow, stiff, erect, often convolute; 

 spikelets nearly sessile, near together at top of stem, or only the 

 lower one distant, oblong, brown-green ; bracts long, narrow, leafy, 

 with short sheaths, the lowest much longer than the stem ; glumes 

 mucronate ; styles 3-cleft ; fruit ovoid, triangular, strongly- 

 ribbed, tapering into a conical beak. — A sea-coast plant, general 

 round the British Isles. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



64. C. fldva (Yellow Sedge). — Usually densely tufted and leafy, 

 3 — 18 in. high, acquiring frequently a yellowish hue, especially 

 the pistillate spikelets ; terminal staminate spikelet 6—9 lines long ; 

 pistillate spikelets 1, 2 or 3, sessile or shortly stalked, and very near 

 the terminal one, and often one much lower down on a longer 

 stalk, all erect, ovoid, and when ri^s nearly globular; bracts all 

 leafy and sheathing ; styles 3-cleft ; fruit ovoid, ribbed, beaked, 

 spreading. — Wet places; frequent. — Fl. May, June. 



65. C. lasiocdrpa (Slender Sedge). — Root-stock creeping, with 

 runners; stems 1 — 3 feet high ; /eaves very slender, stiff; staminate 

 spikelets 2 or 3, slender, 1 — 2 in. long, brown ; pistillate spikelets 1 

 — 3, remote from them, nearly sessile, oblong, 6 — 9 lines long, 

 loose-flowered ; styles 3-cleft ; fruit ovoid, with a short 2-fid beak, 

 very downy. — Peat-bogs ; local. — Fl. May. Perennial. 



66. C. hirta (Hairy Sedge or Hammer Sedge). — Root-stock creep- 

 ing, jointed, scaly ; stems weak, leafy, 1 — 2 feet high, and, as well 

 as the leaves, more or less hairy ; terminal staminate spikelets 1 or 

 2 ; pistillate ones 2 or 3, very distant, stalked, cylindric, an inch 

 or more long ; bracts with long sheaths ; fruit tapering into a long, 

 2-fid beak, covered with short, spreading hairs. — Damp woods. — 

 Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



67. C. Pseudo-cyperus (Cyperus-like Sedge). — A stout, tufted 

 form ; stems 1 — 3 feet high, 3-angled, rough ; leaves broad, long, 



