466 
97. CYPEEACE^. 
diaphanous, greenish down the back. — Groves and thickets, 
44. C. pen'dula (Huds.) ; fertile sjnJces drooping about 5 distant 
cylindrical very long densely flotvered, bracts leaflike lower ones 
with sheaths nearly equalling the flowerstalks upper scarcely- 
sheathing, fr. elliptic subtrigonous tnmid with short trigonous 
emarginate beak, nut elliptic triangular. — E. B. 2315. Schk. Q. 
60. R. 243. — St. 3 — 6 feet high, round at the angles above. 
Fertile spikes often 3 or 4 in. long, arched ; upper ones frequently 
with male fl. at the tip. Gl. ovate mucronate, broyn with a 
green keel. Fr. green, ciliate at the mouth. — Damp woods. P. 
V. E. S. I. 
+ ;i Fruit downy, hairy or scabrous. Bracts sheathing . L. in 
sterile tufts. Male spike solitary. 
45. C. humilis (Leyss.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 remote about 3- 
floioered enclosed in the membranous leafless bracts, fr. obovoid 
subtrigonous narrowed below tvith an entire oblique mouth not 
obovoid, trigonous, with a short beak. — H. b. 15. C. clandestina 
Good., E. B. 2124. Schk. K. 43. R. 239.— St. about 2 in. high, 
erect, concealed amongst the leaves. Bracts large, wholly mem- 
branous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. L. all radical, linear, 
channelled, rough. — Limestone hills in Hants, Wilts, Somerset, 
46. C .ornithop oda ( W.) ; fertile spikes 3 near together suberect 
exceeding male spike, bracts membranous leafless, /r. pyriform 
trigonous with a subemarginate mouth exceeding the glumes, 
nut elliptic subtrigonous shortly stalked with a minute beak.— 
J. of B. xiii. 1. 164. R. 240. — St. 3 — 5 in. high, scarcely exceed- 
ing the flat bluntish radical leaves. Bracts much falling short 
of fertile spikes.— Millers Dale, Derbyshire. P. V.— VII. E. 
47. C. digitdta (L.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 distant linear erect 
lax, bracts membranous obliquely truncate, lowermost with a 
setaceous leaflike point, fr. obovoid trigonous narrowed below 
equalling gl., beak short nearly entire, " nut elliptic-oblong 
triangular shortly-stalked and shortly-beaked." — E. B. 615. 
Schk. H. 38. H. b. 14.— St. 6—8 in. high, erect, sheathed at 
the base, leafless, taller than the flat radical leaves. — Woods on 
limestone, rare. P. IV. V. E. 
XXXX hairy or dovmy or scabrous. Bracts not sheathing 
(except slightly in No. 52). — t Male spike 1. 
48. C. caryophyl'lea- (Latour.) ; fertile spikes 1 — 3 oblong-ovoid 
near together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest leaflike and 
rare. P. V. VI. 
E. S. I. 
and Dorset. P. IV. 
E. 
