CAKEX. 
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bifid finely serrate, mit ovoid w aval with a beak constricted at. 
the base, gl. mucronate shorter than the fruit, st. triquetrous 
with rough angles, bracts setaceous. — E. B. 307. Schk. C. 10. 
R. 217. — Height 2 feet. St. firm. L. broad. Fr. palish green. 
Spikelets greenish, bracts long, in shady places. R. 216. 
j^C. ntmoTosa (Lumn.) is a form with longer interrupted spikes, long bracts and 
paler more cuspidate glumes.] — Wet places. P. VI. E.S.I. 
12. C. spicdta (Huds.) ; spikelets contiguous, spike oblong 
dense, /r. ovoid-acuminate plane-convex obscurely veined bitid 
finely 5e»'?YT^eupperspreading, nutovoid its beak extremely short, 
gl. mucronate shorter than the fruit, st. triquetrous with rough 
angles. C. contigua (Hoppe) ; C. muricata (Good, not L.). — 
E. B. 1097. R. 215.— Height 1—2 feet. St. slender but strong. 
L. narrow. Lowermost spikelets not more than their own 
length distant from each other. Fr. much larger than that of 
Sp. 13, with a broad flat beak with verj' sharp edges. /S. virens 
(Koch). — Spikes interrupted below [gl. shorter and broader, paler 
and greener"]. C. mvricata (Hoppe"). — GraveUy pastures. P. VI. 
E. S. I. 
13. C. divul'sa (Stokes in With.) j spikelets distant the upper 
ones nearer together, fr. ovoid acute plane-convex obscurely 
veined bifid smooth ascending, beak roughish at the edges, nut 
ovoid-oblong compressed its beak extremely short, gl. mucronate 
shorter than the fruit, st. triquetrous with rough angles above, 
bracts setaceous.— B. 629. Schk. Dd. & Ww. 89. H. a. 16. 
^. 220.— Height 1—2 feet. St. lax slender, flaccid. Spikelets 
greyish, usually distant, 1 or 2 lowest often lengthened into a 
short branch. Fr. with a thick green margin slightly rough 
near the top. — Moist shady places. P. VI. E. I. 
XXX CcBspituse. Spike compound, often panicled. Fr. ascending, 
gibbous on its back. 
14. C .teretius'cuIa{Goo6..) ; spikeletsfoimingadensecc/mpound 
oblong spike fr. ovate with 2 — 5 central ribs on the convex side 
(back), beak bidentate serrulate sjilit to its base and overlappincf 
on the back, nut turbinate with a verj- short beak convex, style 
not thickened at the base, st. trigonous and rough above. — 
jE". ^. 1065. ^cM. D. 19. T. 69. if. a. 9. i?. 222. C.diandra 
Asch., Roth?, not Schrank. — Root forming scattered simple 
tufts. St. 1—2 feet high, slender.—/3. C. Ehrhartiana(RopTpe); 
root more caespitose, spike long rather loose, st. triquetrous 
above. Sy. E. B. 1620. — Boggy meadows, rare. ^. near 
Manchester [etc.]. P. VI. E. S. I. 
[(7. vulpinoidea (Mich.) [.spikes numerous very dense small-Howered. 
AN. American species]. Kew. An escape.] 
