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97. CYPERACE^. 
elliptic, St. triquetrous with rough angles. — E. B. 242. Schk. 
Mm. 102. H. b. 56. R. 275.— St. 2—3 feet high. Male spike 
often with some fertile flowers. Fertile spike 1^ — 2 in. long. 
--Damp places, rare. P. VT. E. I. 
tt+t Beak of hairy fr. terete or compressed with patent cusps. 
Male spikes 2 or more. 
67. C lasiocar'pa (Ehrh.) ; male spikes -Infertile 3 or 4 remote 
erect sessile oblong, bracts leaflike lowermost slightly sheathing, 
gl. oblong-ovate cuspidate and ciliate at the point,/?-, downy 
oblong-ovoid narrowed into an obliquely truncate beak with 2 
lateral points, nut narrowly elliptic subtrigonous, 1. slender 
channelled. — C . filiformis L. ?, Good. E. B. 904. Hchk. K. 45. 
B. 132. R. 265. — St. 2 feet high. L. with filamentous sheaths 
below. Lowest spike rarely stalked. — Peat-bogs, rare. P. V. 
E. S. I. 
68. C. hir'ta (L.) ; male spikes 2 or Z, fertile 2 or 3 remote 
erect ohlong-cylindrical stalked, bracts leaflike the lower vdth 
long sheaths nearly equalling the peduncles, gl. elliptic-lanceo- 
late with long slender ciliate points, fr. haiiy oblong-ovate nar- 
rowed into a deeply divided beak, nut obovate narrowed below 
triangular, /. flat Hairy— E. B. 685. Schk. Uu. 108. H. b. 58. 
R. '257. — St. lA — 2 feet high, leafy. L. and sheaths shaggj', 
rarely glabrous. Fr. tawny. Occasionally the spikes are com- 
pound at the base and very long-stalked, and the gl. long. — 
[Var. ebrofteata (Syme) has crowded spikes, 1. and gl. glabro\is and bracts without 
foiiaceous lamin*. A monstrosity ?] — Wet places. P. IV. Hammer- 
Sedge. E. S. T. 
ttttt Beak of fr. glabrous, terete, striate, with patent cusps, 
or 2-toothed. Male spikes many, rarely 1. Bracts not 
sheathing. 
t Male spike I. Stigrnas 2. Beak of fr. ^-toothed. 
69. C. sa.rat'ilis (L.) ; male spike 1 (rarely 2), fertile 1 — 3 
roundish-ovoid lower one stalked bracteate sheathless erect,. rV. 
ovoid obscurely veined inflated,, beak short, nut roundish mucro- 
nate, gl. bluntish.—C. (Good.). E. B. 2045. Schk. Cc. 88. 
C. vesicaria v. aljngena Fr. — St. 6 — 8 in. high. Gl. dark purple 
tipped with white, midrib dark jnirjile. Fr. dark purple paler 
at the base, longer than the gl., stalked. — C saxatalis (Linn. 
Herb.) ; but Andersson says that the true plant is C rigida. — 
Wet parts of the higher Scottish mountains. P. VII. S. 
70. C. Grahumi (Boott) ; male spikes 1 or 2 slender acute, 
fertile 2 or 3 ovate blunt lower one stalked bracteate sheathless. 
