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CYPERACE-ffi. 
out.— E.B. 2043. Schk. X. 76. H. b. 49-— St. a foot high. L. 
and bracts very slender. Glumes purple, with a green keel, 
about as long as the pale fr. which is broadest above the middle. 
Nut pale. Root creeping. — Spongy bogs. P. VI. 
48. C. irrigua (" Sm." Hartm.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 upon long 
stalks oblong densely-flowered with occasionally a few barren fi. 
at their base, bracts auricled foliaceous rather bruad nearly fat, 
glumes ovate-lanceolate attenuated acute,// - , roundish-ovate com- 
pressed faintly ribbed with a very short entire beak, nut elliptical 
triangular with a beak, I. linear fat smooth at the edges except 
near the apex. — H. b. 48.-r-St. a foot or more in height. L. and 
bracts 2 or 3 times as broad as in the preceding. Glumes wholly 
purple, usually longer than the pale fr. which is broadest below 
the middle. Nut pale. Root creeping. — Spongy bogs. Muckle 
Moss, Northumb. Terregles, Dumfries. — P. VI. E. S. 
49. C. ustulata (Wahl.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 upon short stalks 
ovate densely-flowered, bracts scarcely foliaceous or sheathing, 
glumes ovate acute, fr. elliptical compressed rough-edged with a 
cloven beak, nut elliptical triangular on a long stalk, root fibrous. 
— E. B. 2044. Schk. Y. 82. H. b. 47.— St. 3—4 feet high. L. 
very short, broad. Glumes dark purple with a slender pale mid- 
rib. Fr. dark purple paler below. Nut fuscous. I have seen 
no specimens. — Ben Lawers. Mr. G. Don. P. VII. S. 
tft Fertile spikes elongated. 
50. C. sirigosa (Huds.) ; fertile spikes about 4 distant rather 
drooping slender lower ones with exserted stalks, bracts foliaceous 
sheathing,// - , oblong-lanceolate narrowed at both ends triangular 
nerved with an obliquely truncate mouth, nut elliptical triangular 
punctured, 1. broad.— E. B. 994. Schk. N. 53— St. 2 feet high. 
Sheaths covering nearly the whole length of the peduncles. 
Spikes laxly-flowered. Glumes elliptic-lanceolate, diaphanous, 
greenish down the back. — Groves and thickets, rare. P. V. VI. 
51. C. sylvatica (Huds.) ; fertile spikes about 4 distant slightly 
drooping linear with long half-exserted stalks, bracts foliaceous 
sheathing,// - , elliptical triangular obscurely nerved narrowed into 
a long cloven smooth beak, nut obovate-elliptical triangular, 1. 
narrower than in the preceding. — E. B. 995. Schk. LI. 101. H. 
b. 55. — St. about 2 feet high, smooth. Sheaths scarcely cover- 
ing half the length of the peduncles. Glumes ovate, acute, dia- 
phanous with a green keel. — Damp woods. P. V. 
52. C. pendula (Huds.) ; fertile spikes about 5 distant droop- 
ing cylindrical very long densely-flowered, bracts foliaceous lower 
ones with sheaths equalling the rlowerstalks upper scarcely 
sheathing, fr. elliptical subtriquetrous tumid with a short trigo- 
nous emarginate beak, nut elliptical narrowed at both ends trian- 
