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CYPERACEiE. 
linear, channeled, rough. — C. humilis being much the older name 
(1761) and used by most authors is restored to this species. — 
Limestone hills in Wilts and Somerset. P. IV. E. 
58. C. digitata (L.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 distant linear erect 
£a;r-flowered, bracts membranous sheathing obliquely truncate 
lowermost with a setaceous foliaceous point, fr. obovate triquetrous 
narrowed below, with a short nearly entire beak, "nut elliptic- 
oblong triangular shortly-stalked and shortly-beaked." — E. B. 
615. Schk. H. 38. H. b."l4. St. 6—8 in. high, erect, sheathed 
at the base leafless, taller than the flat radical leaves. Stalks of 
the spikes nearly or quite included. — Woods on limestone, rare. 
P. IV. V. E. 
vi. Terminal spikes barren, 2 or more ; stigmas 3. 
* Fruit downy. 
59- C. glauca (Scop.) ; barren spikes 1 or more, fertile 2 or 3 
at length drooping cylindrical densely flowered with long stalks, 
bracts foliaceous scarcely sheathing, glumes ovate acute, fr. obtuse 
elliptical slightly downy entire at the small point, nut roundish- 
ovate triangular. — H. b. 67. Schk. O. P. 57- C. recurva Huds. 
E. B. 1506. — Root creeping. St. a foot or more in height. 
Barren spikes very variable in number. Fertile spikes often with 
barren fl. at the summit. — /3. micheliana (Sm.) differs only by 
having quite blunt glumes and smaller fruit. E. B. 2236. — y. 
stictocarpa ; fertile spikes ovate, fr. obovate dotted. C. sticto- 
carpa Sm. E. B. S. 2772. The name that I have adopted is the 
older and more generally employed.— Wet places. P. VI. 
60. C.filiformis (L.) ; barren spikes 2, fertile 3 or 4 remote 
erect sessile oblong, bracts foliaceous lowermost slightly sheath- 
ing, glumes oblong-ovate cuspidate and ciliated at the point, fr. 
oblong-ovate narrowed upwards into an obliquely truncate beak 
ending in, 2 lateral points, nut narrowly elliptical attenuated at 
both ends triquetrous, 1. slender channeled. — E. B. 904. Schk. 
K. 45. H. b. 31. — St. 2 feet high. L. with filamentous sheaths 
below. — Boggy meadows. P. V. 
61. C. hirta (L.) ; barren spikes 2 or 3, fertile 2 or 3 remote 
erect ob\o<ng-cylindrical stalked, bracts foliaceous the lower with 
long sheaths nearly equalling the peduncles, glumes elliptic-lan- 
ceolate with long slender ciliated points, "fr. oblong-ovate nar- 
rowed upwards into a deeply divided beak, nut obovate narrowed 
below triquetrous, I. fat hairy. — E. B. 685. Schk. Uu. 108. H. 
b. 58. — St. li — 2 feet high, leafy. L. and sheaths shaggy, rarely 
glabrous. Fr. tawny. Occasionally the spikes are compound. — 
Wet places. P. IV. 
** Fruit glabrous. 
62. C. hordeiformis (Wahl.) ; barren spikes 2, fertile 3 oblong 
