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Stem triangular; smooth, about 1 foot high. Spikes often very dis- 

 tant. Male spike rather shortly stalked. Female spikes 2 to 4. 

 Glumes dark purple, mucronate. Fruit ovate, subtriquetrous, with 

 2 prominent, green, sub marginal ribs on the back, which are always 

 green. Beak broad, bifid, rough at the edges. Nut obovate, tapering 

 at the base. 



27. C. Ucrigata, (Sm.) smooth-stalked, beaked Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 

 1387. Schk. Bbb. 116, and Sss. 162, Hb. 38. Reich Icones, 254. 



Locality. In damp woods, and boggy thickets. F. Fl. June. 

 Area, * * * 4, * 



North Division. 



4. North-ivest District. " Woods in Spye Park," Mr. C.E. Broome. 

 Rare and local in the county. Stem 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves broad, 

 but rather short. Spikes distant, erect or drooping. Glumes 

 acuminate or mucronate, purple. Fertile spikes cylindrical. Fruit 

 ovate, attenuate. Beak long, deeply bifid, with rough edges. Nut 

 subpyriform, narrowed below, smooth. Often in the young state 

 mistaken for the next species, C. sylvatica, and then most easily 

 distinguished by its more compact spikelets, and darker glumes. 



28. C. sylvatica, (Huds.) pendulous wood Carex. Engl. Bot. t. 

 995. Schk. L. 1. 101, H. b. 55. Reich Icones, 242. 



Locality. Moist woods. P. Fl. May. Area, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 

 General in all the Districts. Stem about 2 feet high. Leaves shorter 

 than the stem. Male spikelet solitary. Fertile spikelets about 4, 

 filiform, rather slender, loose flowered, slightly drooping. Glumes 

 ovate, acute. Fruit broadly ovate, acuminate. Beak long, smooth, 

 cleft at the point. Nut obovate, elliptic, triangular. Similar to 

 C. strigosa, but the spikelets are shorter, broader, and on longer 

 stalks. 



29. C. pseudo-cyperus, (Linn.) Cyperus-like Carex. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 242. Schk. M. m. 102, H. b. 56. Reich Icones, 275. 



Locality. Damp places by the sides of ponds. P. Fl. June. 

 Area, * * * 4, 5. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. In a bog between South Wraxhall and 

 the Horse and Jockey. 



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