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97. CYPEEACE.E. 
35. C. atrdta (L.) ; spikes 3 — 4 ovate-oblong shortly stalked 
contiguous ultimately drooping, the lowest rather distant and 
with a longer stalk, fr. elliptic veinless vAth a short terete 
dightly iwtched heak, glumes acute, nxd elliptic triquetrous 
blunt apiculate. lower bract leaflike. — E. B. 2044. Schh. X. 
77. H. b. 8. R. 237.— St. 1—1^ foot high, triangular, smooth. 
L. flat, broad. Gl. dark purple : midrib slender, pale. Fr. 
yellowish. Mr H, C. Watson mentions a form with the term, 
spike wholly male and the fem. spikes cylindrical and 2 — 3 in. 
below it.— Alpine rocks. P. YI. VII. i E. S. 
ii Fruit nlahrous. Terminal spike wkolh/ male, solitary. 
36. C. palles'cens (L.) ; fertile spikes subpendulous ovate or 
oblong with exserted stalks contigvous, bracts leaflike, gl. mu- 
cronate, /V. ovoid-ohJong convex on both sides veined blunt, 
beak 0, md linear-elliptic trigonous. — E. B. 2185. Sy. E. B. 
1657. .Schk. Kk. 99. H. b. 44.— St. slender, triquetrous, rough 
above 1 — 1^ foot high. Spikes blunt, piale green ; the barren 
one sessile, darker. — Marshy places. P. YI. E. S. I. 
37. C. jKinicea (L.) ; fertile spikes erect remote subcylindrical 
on exserted stalks, bracts leaflike sheathing, gl. rather acute, 
fr. ovoid subglobose tw/fotfec? veinless with a short terete truncate 
beak, nut obovoid-oblong triaonous with a cylindrical beak. — 
£".5.1505. .9c/;^. LI. 100. b. 33.— St. 1—2 ft. high, erect, 
smooth, obtuse-angled. Fertile spikes about 2. Gl. oblong, 
more or less acute, dark brown with a green keel and mem- 
branous pale margins. Lowermost bract about as long as its 
spike, the rest shorter, sheaths close, [a form with the fruits swollen 
and purplish towards the top is var. tumiduia (Larst.).] — Marshy places. 
P. VI. . E. S. I. 
38. C. vagindta (Tausch I) ; fertile spikes erect remote on ex- 
serted stalks, bracts sheathing scarcely leaflike, gl. bluntish,/r. 
ovoid triquetrous glabrous veinless with a short terete smooth 
very obliquely truncate and emarginate beak, nut elliptic tri- 
angular "tcitk a beak slightly thickened upwards." — H. b. 17, 
Kunze Riedgr. 15. B. 478. C. phwostachya Sm., E. B. S. 
2731. C. Meilichoferi Sm., E. B. 2293.— St. 5—6 in. high, 
smooth. Fertile spikes 1 — 2. Glumes bluntish. Bracts icith 
funnelshaped sheaths. — Highland mountains. P. VII. S. 
39. C. limo.ta (L.) : fertile spikes 1 or 2 upon very long stalks 
drooping ovate den^ely-jiowered "with occasionally a few male 
jf. at their top," bracts auricled slender strongly keeled, gl. ovate 
mucronate,/r. roundish-obovoid compressed strongl y ribbed with 
