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into a deftexed rough-edged bifid beak, nut obovoid trigonous 
punctate, st. trigonous smooth. — E. B. 1294. Schk. H. 36. //. 
p. 22. R. 273.— St. 6—12 in. high. L. broad. Male spike cy- 
lindrical, blunt; gl. blunt. Fertile spikes usually near together 
and near the barren spike, sometimes distant; gl. with a green 
midrib slightly rough and often excurrent at the end. Beak of 
the fr. curved downwards parallel-sided when young. Lowest 
fr. declining.^ — /i. C. ^e/nrfocar^jd (Tausch !); barren spikesusually 
long-stalked, beak of fr. often nearly straight. — Sy. E. B. 1673. 
Kunze Riedgr. 13. R. 272.— Wet places. P. V. VI. E. S. I. 
57. C (E'deri{'R&\,z.); /e»-«j7e spiies roundish-ovate subsessile 
near together, lowest spike with an included stalk, bracts leaflike 
with short sheaths, gl. mucronate, /r. subglobose inflated ribbed 
smooth suddenly contracted into an erect narrow rough-edged 
bifid beak, nut obovoid-trigonous punctate, st. trigonous smooth. 
—Sy. E. B. 1674. //. b. 2.3. R. 272.— Much like, but 
distinct from, C. flava. Fertile spikes smaller. Fr. much 
smaller than those of C. flava, more in number, with a shorter 
and narrower-based beak which is conical when young. Very 
variable in height. — [Var. ledocarpa (And.) has St. recurved, male sp. 
stalked, fertile spikes distant, fr. more beaked.] — BogS. P. VI. VII. 
E. S. I. 
58. C. e.rten'sa (Good.) ; fertile spikes oblong near together 
subsessile lower one rather distant with a short included stalk, 
bracts very long leaflike with short sheaths, gl. mucronate, fr. 
ovoid triquetrous ribbed narrowed into a, straight smooth-edged 
bifid beak, nut oblong-elliptic triangular smooth. — E. B. 833. 
Schk. V. Xx. 72. H. b. 32. R. 27i.—St. usually curved, 8—12 
in. high, trigonous, smoo^A, usually exceeding the leaves. Barren 
spike nearly sessile, blunt; gl blunt. L. and bracts very narrow. 
1 Mr Townsend (J. of B. xix. 1881, p. 161) discriminates the following forms — 
" d. genuina. — L. shorter than the st. , male spike nearly or quite sessile, 
"female spikes contiguous, lowest bract much exceeding male spike; fr. 
"considerably narrowed towards the base, and gradually narrowing above 
" into a much deflexed beak, which is as long as the rest of the fr. 
"(3. C. li'pidocarpa, Tausch. — St. scabrous; 1. narrow, shorter than the 
"St.; male spike long-stalked, female spikes distant, ovate; fr. crowded, 
" suborbicnlar, beak long, strongly deflexed. 
" 7. minor. — St. shorter than in var. a ; 1. commonly as long as or even 
"longer than the St., male spike usually stalked, female spikes usually 
"distant; fr. smaller, suborbicular, more suddenly contracted into a less 
" deflexed or straight beak, which is shorter than the rest of the fr. 
" 5. argillacea. — L. broad, as long as or longer than the st. ; male spike 
"short sessile, female spikes contiguous; fr. suborbicular, beak short, 
" straight." H. & J. G. 
