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91. CYPERACE.'E. 
setaceous bract. Glumes membranous, brown with a white mar- 
gin. — Al))ine j)laces. Ben Wyvis. Ben Lawers. Loch na Gar. 
P. Yll. VIII. S. 
23. C. leporina (L. !); spikelets .3 — 4 roundish -elliptical con- 
tiguous, fr. erect ellipticiil acuminate plano-convex narrowed be- 
low nearly entire at the point with smooth edges, “ nut elliptical 
tipped with the persistent style,” glumes ovate nearly as long as 
the fruit. — if. B. S. 2815. C. le])oriua Linn. FI. Lap. not 
FI. Suec. C. lagopina Wahl., H. a. 24, R. 543. — St. 4 — 8 in. 
high, smooth, triangular. Glumes reddish with the margins 
]>aler. Pr. yellow. — On the south side of Loch na Gar. 
Dr. Dickie. ‘P. VIII. S. 
24. C. oralis (Good.); spikelets about 6 oval contiguous, fr. 
erect ovate-attenuate plano-convex narrowed below bifid at the 
point with membranous margins serrulate above, nut elliptical with 
a short eylindriciil beak terminating in the persistent style, glumes 
lanceolate as long as the fruit. — E. B. 30(i. Schk. B. 8. C. lepo- 
rina H. a. 22, R. 554. — St. 1 — 2 feet high, triangular, smooth 
or roughish above. Glumes lanceolate, acute, brown with a 
])aler membranous margin. Fr. yellowish. — Marshy meadows. 
P. VII. 
iv. Terminal spike androgynous, sterile fl. at the base. 
Stigmas 3. 
25. C. Vahlii (Schk.); spikes 1 — 4 roundish or oblong conti- 
guous nearly sessile, /r. obovate triquetrous scabrous above with 
a short notched beak longer than the ovate rather acute glumes, 
nut obovate triquetrous blunt with a short cyhndrical beak, bract 
scarcely overtopping the spikes, st. triangular rough towards the 
summit. — E.B. S.'266(). Schk. Gg. 94. and Ppp. 154. B.588. — 
St. 6 — 12 in. high, erect. Glumes brown or black. — Glen Cal- 
later and Glen Phu, Clova. P. VII. S. 
26. C. Buxbaumii (Wahl.) ; spikes 3 — 4 oblong sessile conti- , 
guons, the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, fr. oval obtuse 
compressed (ultimately trigonous) bidentate subseabrous above 
shorter at the base of the spike than the cuspidate glumes, nut 
obovate trigonous blunt ajiiculate, lower bract leallike. — E. B. S. 
2885. H.h. 11. Schk. X. and Gg. 76. R. 589. — St. 1 — 2 feet 
high, triquetrous, rough. Sheaths of the 1. connected by netlike 
filaments. Glumes nearly black witb a green keel prolonged into 
a cuspidate j)oiut. Fr. glaucous-green. — Dr. Boott has shown 
that this is the true C. canescens (L.) but it is surely better not 
to change the name by which it is universally knowm. — Island 
near Toom bridge in Lough Neagh. P. VI. I. 
27. C. atrata (L.) ; spikes 3 — 4 ovate-oblong shortly stalked 
contiguous ultimately di'ooping, the lowest rather distant and 
