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as long. Lower bract with a slender leaflike point [someximes 
exceeding the spike]. — Marshy places. P. V. \T. E. S. I. 
7. C. arendria (L.) ; spikelets in an oblong interrupted spike 
upjier ones male lower fertile intermediate male at the end,/V. 
ovate veined winged and serrulate ./Vo7;i the middle to the bitid 
top of the beak, nut bluntly ovoid, glumes longer than the fr. 
acuminate, st. rough above. — E. B. 921. Schk. B. A: Dd. 6. 
H. a. 13. R. 209.— Height 1 foot. Sobole superficial, very 
long. Lowermost bracts with slender leaflike pointb.' — Sandv 
places. P. VI. E. S. 1. 
tt Spikelets male at the top. — 1 Soholejar-creejnng. 
8. C. incur va (Lightf.) : spikelets in a roundish head, fr. 
inflated broadly ovoid acuminate-rostrate, beak split externally, 
nut obovoid, st. smooth about equalling the leaves. — E. B. 927. 
Schk. Hh. 95. H. a. 5. R. 199.— St. 2—3 in. high, usually 
recurved so as to bring the large head down to the ground. 
Beak of fr. tlSUally rather rough, [a taU lonn with almost erecs 
hea.la is var. erecta (O. F. LangJ.l— Sandy shoreS of the Xorth. 
P. VI. E. S. 
9. C. cKordoTThiza (Ehrh.); spikelets crowde-i in a small shortly.ovate bead, 
fr. inflated ovoid brown sbining with darker brown veins narroviing somewhat 
suddtnly into an inconspicaoasly bifid beak, nat roandish, gl. blunt with a 
membranous margin, st. smooth aceedino the 1. — •/. of B. mvi. (1S9S) p. 73, 
t. 3S3. — Stems upright branched 6-12 in. high, the base with very short sheathing 
L Bracts acaniinate scarious the lowermost about equilling its spike. — Very • 
wet bogs, Altnaharra, Sutherl. Messrs E. S. Marshall .< IT. A. ShoolbreJ. 
P. VII.— VIII. S. 
10. C. divisa (Huds.) ; spikelets in a somewhat ovate he^kd./V. 
plane-conv€.r ovoid many-veined, beak acxte/;/ bind irith nnel;/ 
serrate edges, nut broadly oblong, gl. with an excurrent rib, $t. 
roughish at the top. — E. B. 1096. — St. slender, a foot high. 
Lowermost bract (brown) scarious, often prolonged into a slen- 
der green point sometimes overtopping the spike. Fr. veined 
on both sides. Spike often interrupted below. — Near the sea 
on the Southern and Eastern coasts. P. V. VI. E. I. 
%i Ccespitose. Spike simply comjx>und. Fr. stjuaii'ose, not 
gibbous. 
11. C. vulpina(L.); spikelets comjxnmd in a cylindrical oblong 
crowded spike, /V. ovoid-acuminate plane-convex veined, beak 
• Specimens with some female fl. in the upper spikes have been named var. 
ligerica (J. Gay) but we have seen none like the Fraich plant.— H. i J. G. 
