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spikelet often with a short bract. Glumes ovate, membranous, 
reddish with a green keel and white edges. Fr. greenish. — 
Boggy meadows. P.V.VI. 
21. C. curta (Good.) ; spikelets 4 — 6 elliptical approximate,/) - . 
erect ovate acute plano-convex stalked faintly striated slightly 
notched rough at the edges above, nut elliptical beak very short 
stvle persistent, glumes ovate shorter than the fruit. — E. B. 1386. 
Schk. C. 13. C. canescens H. a. 31. — St. a foot high, triquetrous, 
smooth except at the top. Lowermost spikelet often with a short 
bract. Glumes membranous, irhitish with a green keel, blunt, 
apiculate. Fr. w r hitish. — (3. alpicola (Wahl.) ; spikelets short, 
glumes brown with a white margin. C. Gebhardi H. a. 30. not 
Schk. — Bogs, rare. fl. Alpine situations. Ben Wyvis, Ross- 
shire. P. VI. (i. VIII. 
22. C. leporina (L.) ; spikelets 3 — 4 roundish-elliptical conti- 
guous, fr. erect elliptical acuminate plano-convex narrowed below 
nearly entire at the point with smooth edges, " nut elliptical 
tipped with the persistent style," glumes ovate nearly as long as 
the fruit.— E. B. S.2815. C.' lagopina Wa/iZ., //. a. 24.— St. 4— 8 
in. high, smooth, triangular. Glumes reddish with the mar- 
gins paler. Fr. yellow. — On the south side of Loch na Gar. 
Dr. Dickie. P. VIII. S. 
23. C. oralis (Good.) ; spikelets about 6 oval contiguous, fr. 
erect ovate-attenuate plano-convex narrowed below bifid at the 
point with membranous margins serrulate above, nut elliptical with 
a short cylindrical beak terminating in the persistent style, glumes 
lanceolate as long as the fruit. — E. B. 306. Schk. B. 8. C. lepo- 
rina H. a. 22. — St. 1 — 2 feet high, triangular, smooth or roughish 
above. Glumes lanceolate, acute, brown with a paler membra- 
nous margin. Fr. yellowish.— Marshy meadows. P. VII. 
iv. Terminal spike androgynous, sterile fl. at the base. 
Stigmas 3. 
24. C. Vahlii (Schk.) ; spikes 1 — 4 roundish or oblong conti- 
guous nearly sessile, fr. obovate triquetrous scabrous above with 
a short notched beak longer than the ovate rather acute glumes, 
nut obovate triquetrous blunt with a short cylindrical beak, bract 
scarcely overtopping the spikes, st. triangular rough towards the 
summit.— E. B. S. 2666. Schk. Gg. 94. Ppp. 154.— St. 6—12 
in. high, erect. Glumes brown or black. — Glen Callater and Glen 
Phu, Clova. P. VII. S. 
25. C. Buxbaumii ("Wahl.) ; spikes 3 — 4 oblong sessile conti- 
guous, the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, fr, oval obtuse 
compressed (ultimately trigonous) bidentate subscabrous above 
shorter at the base of the spike than the cuspidate glumes, nut ob- 
ovate trigonous blunt apiculate, lower bract foliaceous. — //. b. 11. 
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