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keeled, rigid. Bracts without sheaths. Spikes near together, 
short, rarely narrowed and laxly flowered below. Gl. about 
exceeding the fr., purple with a green keel. Xut rather longer 
than broad. — -^p. infrralplna (Lsst.); taller, 1. broader and more erect, ir. 
longer and broader, lower female sp. stalked, elongated tapering below.] — In 
wet and stony places on mountains. P. TT. Vil. E. S. I. 
tit Stigmas 2. Sheaths not loebhed. Fertile sjnkes erect. 
Glumes narrower than the fruit. ' 
29. C. aquat'iUs (Wahl.) : s-pilces erect, male 1 or more, fer- 
tile 3 or 4 long Tiarrotred helov: lower ones stalked, bracts leaf - 
like erect overtopping the stem,/V. elliptic lenticular xeithovt 
veim broader than the gl.. nut oblong narrowed below with a 
short slender beak, nt. trigonous smooth. — E. B. S. 2758. — St. 
1 — 4 feet high, with convex faces. Spikes rather distant. Gl. 
usually short, narrower than the yellowish-green fr., reddish 
purple with a pale midrib.^ Alpine bogs and riverside. P. 
vn. E. S. I. 
30. C. saiini (Wahl.); spikes erect or lower ones somewhat drooping, male 
2 — 3, fertile 3—4 on short ped. sometimes male at the top, bracts leaflike 
equalling the spikes, stigmas 2—3, fr. ovoid compressed with many veins 
and a short beak, nut obovate narrowed above and below, st. trigonons — 
/. of B. xxiii. p. 290, t. 262.— St. 1—2 feet high. L. narrow with keel and marg: 
scabrid. Gl. brownish ovate obtuse or mncroiate, lower vrith an excum 
scdbrid midrib. — A curious plant from Harris is referred by Mr Bennett to 
C. spifvlcm (Fr.) as var. hebridtn^is (Ar. Bene.), but it seems to lack the asperous 
prolongation of the midrib of the gL characteristic of that ep. — Extreme 
of Scotland. VII. VIII. s^. 
31. C'.fits'ca (All. sec. Schinz «i: Thell.); spikes erect, male 
1 or 2, fertile 3 — 4 subse'ssile cylindrical, bracts vnth s}iort 
auricles leaflike, jr. elliptic plane-convex with many veins 
below and a short entire beak, nut roundish very blunt, st. 
triquetrous rough towards the top. — €'■ ccespitosa Sm., E. 
1507. C. Gooilenou-ii (Gay;, C. vulgaris (Fries). — St. about 
1 Mr Ar. Bennett (J. of B. xsxt. 1S&7, p. 249) characterizes the followmg 
forms : — 
1. oisfidata (La-st.) glumes elongated and cuspidate. 
2. viretcem (And.) just the opposite to the last; the gl. i the length . 
the fr. which is very symmetrically arranged. 
3. minor (Boott). The montane plant with the spikes attenuated at tiie 
base 
4. dartor (BBb.)= var. Wo.ioni (Sy.). The lowland plant nsually with spikes 
stout, equal and continuous leafy bracts, and tall (3 — 5 ft.) st. 
Sir Bennett records the hybrids C. a/iuaiilU>^talima (xC. Graniix, Ar. Ben::.) 
and C. a/iVLOtilii x data ( x C. hiberr.ica, Ar. Benn.). H. & J. G. 
