cyperacka;. 
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high, smooth. Fertile spikes 1 — 2. " Glumes bluntish, point- 
less, dark brown." Bracts with funnehhaped sheaths. — Koch says 
" culmus rectangule refractus est ad spicam, quse flores ex- 
plicat, explicatione peracta ad sequentem spicam eadem ratione 
refractus apparet, post antliesin autem toties erectus est." — Dr. 
Boott refers C. Meilichoferi (Sm.) to this species and it is pro- 
bable that he is correct, although Smith expressly says that the 
fr. is rough-edged. I have never seen specimens, but judging 
from the fig. (E. B. 2291?.) and description it appears not to be 
the plant of Schk. Mmmm. 198. or H. b. 52. — Highland moun- 
tains. P. VII. S. 
44. C. depauperaia (Good.) ; fertile spikes erect remote with 
3 or 4 fl. and exserted stalks, bracts sheathing leafy, glumes 
acute, fr. large nearly globose with a long bifid beak with rough 
edges, nut elliptical trigonous with bluntish angles. — E. B. 
1098. Schk. M. 50.— St. 1—2 feet high, bluntly triangular, 
smooth. Glumes of the barren spike blunt. Known by its very 
large and few fr. with numerous ribs. Spikes very distant. — ■ 
Dry woods, very rare. P. VI. E. S. ? 
ft Fertile spikes short drooping. 
45. C. capillaris (L.) ; fertile spikes upon long stalks half in- 
cluded few-flowered lax, one bract sheathing several flowerstalks, 
glumes obtuse, fr. oblong triangular turgid narrowed below ter- 
minating in a slender membranous beak, nut obovate triquetrous 
blunt with a short beak— E. B. 2069. Schk. O. 56. H. b. 53. — 
St. very slender, 2 — 6 in. high, smooth. Peduncles rough, seve- 
ral usually inclosed in one sheath. Glumes short, broad, obtuse, 
midrib not reaching the summit, shorter than the small smooth 
brown fruit. Nut pale. Root tufted. — Teesdale and Scottish 
highlands. P. VI. E. S. 
46. C. rariflora (Sm.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 upon long stalks 
oblong few-flowered lax, bracts with very short sheaths, glumes 
very broad obtuse as long as the fr., fr. oblong attenuated at both 
ends " with 3 blunt angles and depressed sides " beak extremely 
shoi-t entire, nut roundish-oblong " acutely " triquetrous with a 
very short beak. — E. B. 2516. — St. 6 — 8 in. high, smooth. 
Root creeping. Peduncles solitary. Glumes very broad and 
blunt, dark brown, midrib pale terminating in a minute apiculus. 
Fr. pale, faintly nerved ; nut darker. — Boggy summits of the 
highland mountains, rare. P. VI. S. 
47. C. limosa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 upon very long stalks 
ovate densely -flowered with occasionally a few barren fl. at their 
summit, bracts auricled slender strongly keeled, glumes ovate mu- 
cronate, fr. roundish-obovate compressed strongly ribbed with a 
very short entire beak, nut obovate bluntly trigonous with a beak, 
I. narrow linear complicately -channeled rough at the edges through- 
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