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97. CYPERACEJ?. 
rough upwards, erect. Beak of nut slightly swelling upwards. 
Fr. with copious white down, mouth very broad. — Water-mea- 
dows at Merston Measey, Wilts. Pasture, Fairford, E. Glos. 
P. VI. E. 
tt Male spikes usually more than 1. 
53. C.Jiac'ca (Schreb.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 erect or drooping 
cylindrical densely flowered long-stalked, bracts leafiike scarcely 
sheathing, gl. ovate acute, fr. blunt elliptic veinless slightly 
rough entire at the small point, nut roundish-ovate triangular. 
—H. b. 67. Schk. O. P. 57. R. 269. E. B. 1506. C. recurva 
(Huds.), G. glauca (Scop.). — Soboliferous. St. a foot or more 
in height. Male spikes variable in number. Fertile spikes 
often have a male fi. at the top. — p. C. Micheliana (Sm.) ; gl. 
blunt, fr. smaller. E. B. 2236. — 7. C. stictocarpa (Sm.) ; fertile 
spikes ovate, fr. obovate dotted. E. B. S. 2772. — Damp places. 
P. VI. E. S. I. 
** Beak of fr. long, 'H-toothed or bifid. Nut vnth 3 angles. 
Stigmas 3, rarely 2. (Sp. 54 — 74.) 
t Beak of fruit terete. Terminal spike male. 
54. C.atrofusca (Schk.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 4: upon short stalks 
ovoid densely flowered, by-acts scarcely leaflike or sheathing, gl. 
ovate acute, /»•. elliptic compressed 7-ough-edged with a cloven 
beak, nut elliptic triangular on a long stalk, root fibrous. — E. B. 
2404. Schk. Y. 82. //. b. 47. C. ustuldta (Wahl.).— St. 3—10 
in. high. L. very short, broad. Gl. dark purple with a slender 
pale midrib. Fr. dark purple, paler below. Nut fuscous. — 
Breadalbane Hills, Perthshire. P. VII. S. 
tt Beak of fruit plane-convex. Male spike 1, or rarely 2. 
Fruit glabrous. Bracts sheathing, leaflike. 
55. C. Sad'leri (Linton) ; fertile spikes fusiform upper sessile 
lower ultimately pendulous long-stalked, bracts sheathing leaf- 
like, gl. acute, fr. lanceolate triquetrous gradually narrowed into 
a ciliate-serrate bifid beak, nut ovate triquetrous, st. triangular 
smooth. — C.frigida Syme not All. Edin. Bot. Tr. xii. t. 2. 
J. of B. xiii. t. 159. — ttt. 3 — 12 in. high. L. broad, parallel- 
sided when young. — Above Loch Ceann-mor, Aberdeenshire, 
and in Glen Dole. P. VIII. S. 
56. C.fldva (L.) ; fertile spikes roundish-oval subsessile, low- 
est spike with a nearly included stalk, bracts leafiike with short 
sheaths, gl. blunt,yV'. ovate inflated ribbed smooth narro^ved 
