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often surpassing the stem, with elongate auricles, fr. oblong len- 
ticular nerved rather biconvex with a short entire beak, nut 
roundish-obovate with a short slender beak, glumes acute. — E. B. 
580. Schk. Ee. Ff. 92. H. a. 44.— St. 2—3 feet high, acutely 
angular, rough. L. broad and flat, sheaths not filamentous. 
Glumes narrow -lanceolate acute, on the male spikes spathulate- 
lanceolate, purple with a green keel. Fr. pale. Fertile spikes 
usually with a few barren fl. at the end, nodding when in flower. 
—Wet places. P. VI. 
33. C. saxatilis (L.) ; barren spikes 1 (rarely 2), fertile 2 or 3 
ovate obtuse remote lower one stalked, bracts leafy, fr. elliptical 
inflated slightly nerved (without nerves Sm., Kunth) narrowed 
upwards into a short bifid beak, " nut roundish mueronate." — 
C. pnlla Good. E. B. 2045. Schk. Cc. 88.— St. 6—8 in. high. 
L. with a strong triangular point. Glumes dark brown with a 
pale midrib and point. Fr. at first pale afterwards dark brown. 
The only specimens that I have had an opportunity of examining 
belong to the tall form (2 feet high) from Clova and all the fr. 
are abortive. — Dr. Boott has ascertained from the Linn, and 
Banks. Herb, that this is the plant of Linnaeus, thus confirming 
the opinion of Smith and Solander which is doubted by Gay. — 
Wet parts of the higher Scottish mountains. P. VI. S. 
** Stigmas 3 ; fr. glabrous. 
t Fertile spikes short, mostly erect. 
34. C.flava(L.); fertile spikes roundish-oval subsessile lower 
one with a nearly included stalk, bracts foliaceous with short 
sheaths, glumes obtuse, fr. ovate inflated ribbed smooth with an 
erect or deflexed rough-edged bifid beak, nut obovate trigonous 
punctate-scabrous, st. bluntly-trigonous smooth. — E. B. 1294. 
Schk. H. 36. H. b. 22.— St. 6—12 in. high. L. broad. Barren 
spike cylindrical, obtuse : glumes obtuse. Fertile spikes usually- 
near together, sometimes distant : glumes with a green midrib 
slightly rough and often excurrent at the end. Beak of the fr. 
curved downwards. — fi. (Ederi ; spikes very near together, fr. 
with a short straight beak. C. CEderi E. B. 1773. H. b. 23.— 
Wet places. P. V. VI. 
[Having heard it stated that C. Mairii has been found in Scot- 
land I introduce its characters, although I am unacquainted with 
any station and have not seen Scottish specimens. For beautiful 
and authentic French specimens I am indebted to my friend Mr. 
A. W. Lewis. — C. Mairii (Coss. and Germ. !) ; fertile spikes 
approximate upper subsessile lower with an included stalk, 
bracts foliaceous lower with a long sheath, glumes with a scabrous 
beak,fr. ovate-elliptical trigonous obsoletely nerved gradually nar- 
rowed into a setose-ciliated bifid beak, nut obovate bluntly trigo- 
nous. C. and G. PL Crit. de Paris, p. 18. t. 1, 2.] 
