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slightly sheathing, gl. broadly ovate acuminate with excurrent 
midrib, /r. ovoid-rhomhoidal trigonous with an entire mouth, 
nut obovoid narrowed below trigonous with prominent angles, 
base of the style surrounded by a cuplike disk, soboliferous. — 
£!. B. 1099. Schk. F. 27. H. b. 24. R. 261. C. proicox. Jacq. 
not Schreb. — St. 3 — 12 in. high. Lowermost spike often 
slightly stalked.— Dry places. P. IV. V. E. S. 1. 
49. C. ericetdrum (Poll.) ; fertile spikes 1 — 3 ovoid near to- 
gether sessile, bracts clasping all membranous, r/l. ohovate very 
hhmt finely ciliate midrib not reaching the top, fr. obovoid tri- 
gonous with a truncate beak, nut subglobose trigonous with no 
terminal disk or prominent angles, soboliferous. — E. B. S. 2971. 
Schk. J. 42. H. b. 26. B. 262. C. ciliata Willd.— Gl. brown 
with a broad pale edge, all very blunt. St. 3 — 6 in. high.— 
On chalk. Norf., Suff., Cambridge. P. IV. V. E. 
50. C. montdna (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 — 3 ovoid crowded sessile, 
bracts small membranous the lowest with an awlshaped point, 
gl. of fertile spikes blunt notched and mucronate,/r. narrowed 
below ohlong-ohovoid trigonous with a short notched beak, nut 
oblong narrowed below with a pyramidal beak, root fibrous from 
a shaggy thick branched rhizome. — E. B. S. 2924. Schk. F. 29. 
E. b. 21. R. 261. C. coUina Willd.— St. about a span long, 
slender. L. narrow ] sheaths of lower 1. red. Gl. very dark ; 
midrib narrowly yellowish. Fr.hairy,its beakpurple. — Heaths 
and banks. P. IV. V. ' E. 
51. C.pihdifera (L.) ; fertile S2nkes about 3 roundish nea.x 
together sessile, bracts small loivest scarcely leaflike awlshaped 
not sheathing, gl. broadly ovate mucronate,/r. stalked subglobose 
with a short bifid beak, nut subglobose subtrigonous narrowed 
below, persistent base of style recurved, root librous. — E. B. 
885. Schk. J. 39. R. 260.— St. 6—12 in. long, slender, at 
length decumbent. — /3. longibracteata (Lange) ; lowest bract 
very long leaflike, upper bract long and slender, midrib of gl. 
excurrent, nut fusiform. Var. Leesii (Ridl.) ed. viii. /. of B. 
xix. t. 218. — Wet heaths. Plumpton, Yorkshire. Glen 
Callater, Braemar. On rocks in shade. P. V. E. S. I. 
52. C. tomentosa (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 or 2 nearly sessile cy- 
lindrical blunt, lowermost bracts leaflike with a very short sheath, 
gl. broadly ovate acute, /»-. obovoid subtrigonous scarcely beaked 
slightly emarginate, nut blunt trigonous narrowed below with a 
short beak constricted at its base, soboliferous. — E. B. 2046. Schk. 
F. 28. H. b. 28. R. 263.— .St a foot high, with 3 sharp angles, 
