460 
97. cypeeacej:. 
22. C. curia (Good.) ; spikelets 4 — 6 elliptic contiguous, /r. 
erect acute plane-convex faintly striate, heak short notched not 
split rough at the edges, nut elliptic beak very short, style per- 
sistent, glumes ovate shorter than the fruit. — £. B. 1386. Schk. 
C. 13. R. 206. ? C. canescens (L.). — St. a foot high, triquetrous, 
smooth except at the top. Lowermost spikelet often with a 
setaceous bract. Glumes membranous, whitish with a green 
keel, blunt, apiculate. Fr. whitish. [C. heUola (BlyttUC. canescens X 
ioyopina?) is recorded from Locli-La-Gar.] — BogS. P. VI. E.S.I. 
23. C.vit'ilis(Yr.y : spikelets 4 — 8 ovate or oblong contiguous, 
/)•. erect ovate plane-convex faintly striate, beak short split to its 
base externally rough at the edges, " nut elliptic," glumes ovate 
shorter than the fruit. — C. curta ^. alpicola Wahl. C. Persoonii 
Sieb., R. 206. — Creeping. St. 6 — 12 in. high, triquetrous, 
smooth except at the top. Lowermost spikelet often with a 
setaceous bract. Gl. membranous, broivn with a white margin. 
24. C.lejxnrina (L. em. Good.) ; spikelets 3 — 4 roundish-elliptic 
contiguous terminal one longer, fr. erect elliptic acuminate 
plane-convex narrowed below nearly entire at the point with 
smooth edges, nut elUptic tipped with the persistent style, gl. 
ovate nearly as long as the fruit. — //. a. 24. i?. 205. C.lag.o- 
pina (Wahl.), C'.leporinaJ-imn Fl. Lap. not Fl. Suec. — E. B. S. 
2815. — St. 4 — 8 in. high, smooth, triangular. Glumes reddish 
with the edges paler. Fr. j-ellow. — Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire, 
Inverness-shire. P. Till. S. 
25. C. ovdlis (Good.) ; spikelets about 6 oval contiguous,/*-, 
erect ovate-attenuate plane-convex narrowed below bijid at the 
point irith membranous edges serrulate above, nut elliptic with a 
short cylindrical beak ending in a persistent style, gl. lanceo- 
late as long as the fruit.— ^. B. 306. Schk. B. 8. R. 211. 
— C. lejMrina (L. em. Wahl.) — St. 1 — 2 feet high, triangular, 
smooth, or roughish above. Gl. acute, brown with a paler mem- 
branous margin. Fr. yellowish, [sometimes with crowded spikes 
(var. capitata) or, in woods, paler with smaller spikes (var. argyroglochin) or with 
bracts elongated much exceeding the spike (var. bracteahi)-^ — Mcadows. 
—Mountains. P. VII. VIII. 
E. S. 
++ Spikes fuscous.. 
P. VII. 
E. S. I. 
' Herr Kiikenthal apparently refers the Scotch plant to C. canescens var. 
robustior (Blytt). See ./. of B. iixri. (1S98) p. 75. 
