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gular.— E. B. 2315. Schk. Q. 60. C. Ayastachys Eh*. H. b. 57. 
C. maxima Scop., Hudson's name is the oldest. — St. 3 — 6 feet 
high, rough at the angles above. Fertile spikes often 3 or 4 in. 
long, the upper ones frequently with barren fl. at the summit. 
Glumes ovate, mucronate, brown with a green keel. Fr. green, 
ciliated at the mouth. — Damp woods. P. V. 
53. C. Psettdo-cyperus (L.) ; fertile spikes about 5 drooping 
cylindrical densely-flowered upon long stalks, bracts foliaceous 
scarcely sheathing, yl times setaceous scabrous dilated at the base, 
fr. ovate -lanceolate ribbed much attenuated into a deeply bifid 
beak, nut elliptical triangular, st. with acute rough angles. — 
E. B. 242. Schk. Mm. 102. H. b. 56.— St. 2—3 feet high. 
Fertile spikes H — 2 in. long. — Damp places, rare. P. VI. E.I. 
*** Stiymas 3, fruit downy. 
54. C. prcecox (Jacq.) ; fertile spikes 1 — 3 oblony-ovate near 
together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest foliaceous and slightly 
sheathing, glumes broadly ovate-acuminate, fr. ovate-rhomboi- 
dal trigonous with an entire mouth, nut obovate margined below 
trigonous : base of the style surrounded by a prominent ring. — 
E. B. 1099. Schk. F. 27* H.b. 24.— Root creeping. St. 3—12 
in. high. Lowermost spike sometimes slightly stalked. — Dry 
places. P. IV. V. 
55. C. piliilifera (L.) ; fertile spikes about 3 roundish near to- 
gether sessile, bracts small lowest scarcely foliaceous awlshaped not 
sheathiny, glumes broadly-ovate mucronate,/?-. stalked subylobose 
with a short bifid beak, nut subylobose subtrigonous narrowed 
below.— E. B. 885. Schk. I. 39. H. b. 20.— St. 6—12 in. long, 
slender, at length decumbent. Root fibrous. Nut nearly black. 
Base of the style enlarged. — Wet heaths. P. V. 
56. C. tomentosa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 nearly sessile cy- 
lindrical obtuse, lowermost bract foliaceous with a very short sheath, 
glumes broadly ovate acute, fr. obovate subtrigonous scarcely 
beaked slightly emaryinate, nut obtuse trigonous narrowed below 
with a short beak constricted at its base. — E.B. 2046. Schk. F. 28. 
H. b. 28. — St. a foot high, with 3 sharp angles, rough upwards, 
erect. Root creepiny. Nut pale, its beak slightly swelling up- 
wards. Fr. with copious white down, mouth very broad.— 
Water-meadows at Merston Measy, Wilts. P. VI. E. 
57. C. humilis (" Leyss.") ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 remote about 
3-flowered inclosed in the membranous sheathing leafless bracts, fr. 
obovate subtrigonous narrowed below with an entire oblique mouth, 
" nut obovate triangular with a short beak." — H. b. 15. C. 
clandestina Good. E. B. 2124. Schk. K. 43. — St. about 2 in. 
high, erect, concealed amongst the leaves. Bracts large, wholly 
membranous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. L. all radical, 
