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91. CYPERACE.E. 
1 — 2 feet hi"h, slender. — In a boggy wood at Ladiston near 
Mullingar. Ireland. Mr. D. Moore. Ascham bog and Hes- 
lington field, York. Mr. R. Spruce. P. VII. E. I. 
15. C.pauiculata (L.) ; spikes pa7iicledv:\i\\ elongate diverging 
branehes, fr. ovate gibbous obscurely rnany-nerved with a bifid 
fringed triangular beak winged on its eonve.v side, nut ovate 
obtuse narrowed below compressed-triquetrous : beak slightly 
thickened upwards, st. triquetrous with fiat faces. — E. B. l064. 
Schk. 1). 20. Ttt. Ifi.'k H. a. 19. R. 5/4. — Root forming dense 
elevated e8csj)ites. St. stout, 2 — 3 feet high. Panicle usually 
large and spreading but oeeasionally redueed to a slender eom- 
j)ound (or even simple) spike. Bracts all much shorter than the 
spike. — Bogs. P. VI. 
1 6. C. Boenninghausiana (Weihe) ; spikelets several uj)per ones 
simple erow'ded lower distant composed of alternate spiculee, fr. 
lanceolate plano-convex tapering into an almost entire beak 
strongly serrated from below the middle (nut obovate-elliptical 
pointed?), glumes equalling the fruit, root tufted, lower bract as 
long as, or longer than the spike. — E. B. S. 2910. H. a. 34. 
Kunze Riedg. 22. R. 568. C. Ilailstoni Gibs. ! — St. 1 — 2 feet 
high, triangular with slightly convex faces and rough edges. 
Inflorescence often a foot long. Rachis straight with 3 rough 
edges. Glumes ovate, membranous, silvery browm, smooth. 
Lower spikelets composed of sjiiculBe disposed alternately in the 
manner of a spike along the rachis of the spikelet. Bracts, ex- 
ce])t the lowest, short. L. channeled. “ Male fl. at the top of 
the spikelets.” Coleman. — Sussex. Hertfordshire. Edinburgh- 
shire. Bamffshire. P. VI. E. S. 
17- C. axillaris (Good.); spikelets several upper ones simple 
crowded lower distant composed of several crowded spicula, fr. 
ovate-lanceolate plano-convex tapering bifid serrated above, nut 
obovate with a beak, glumes shorter than the fruit, root tufted, 
lower bract as long as, or longer than the spike. — E. B. 993. 
H. a. 33. — St. 1 — 2 feet high, acutely triangular. Rachis straight 
with 3 rough angles. Glumes ovate, membranous, brovniish, 
midrib often rough, extending to the point. Spiculae of the 
lower spikelets crowded into the axils of the bracts. Bracts, 
exeeut the lower one, short. L. flat. Base of the style slightly 
thickened. “ Male fl. terminal.” Coleman. — Marshes, rather 
rare. P. VI. 
** Spikelets sterile at their base. 
18. C. remota (L.) ; spikelets several all simple upper ones 
crowded lower distant, fr. ovate-acuminate plano-convex bifid at 
the end serrated above, nut elliptical with a beak, glumes shorter 
than the fr., root tufted, bracts elongated. — E. B. 832. Schk. E.. 
