91. CYPERACE^. 
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short, always much narrower than the yellowish -green fr., red- 
dish- |)uii)le with a pale midrib. — Aljiine table-lands of the Clova 
mountains and in the valley by the bridge at Clova. P. VII. S. 
32. C. stricta (Good.) ; spikes erect, barren 1 or more, fertile 
suhsessile elongate-cylindrical, bracts auricled lowermost leaflike 
short, fr. oblong-elliptical acute compressed on both sides nerved 
closely imbricated with a short enth’e beak, nut roundish obovate 
blunt with a short beak, sheaths of 1. connected h\ filamentous 
network. — E.B.914. R.583. — Densely caspitose. St. 2 — 3 ft. 
high, acutely triangular. L. short. Glumes lanceolate, acute, 
equalling or shorter than the fr., narrow, dark j)urple ; keel 
gi'een. Pr. in 8 or 9 regular rows. — Marshes. P. VI. 
33. ? C. (jibsoni (Bab.); spikes erect, baiTen I, fertile 2 — 4 
oblong naiTOwed downwards slightly stalked, bracts with short 
auricles leaflike, fr. lanceolate acute with many nerves not 
reaching the summit and a short entire beak, nut broadly obovate 
verj' blunt with a short thick beak, st. acutely triangular or tri- 
quetrous rough towards the toj). — A. N. H. xi. t. 5. — Creeping. 
St. 6 — 8 in. high. L. flat, not keeled; sheaths not filamentous. 
Lowest bract often overtopping the stem. Spikes lax below. 
Glumes ^ shorter than the fr., oblong, blunt, piuqflish-bromi 
with a broad green band up the midrib ; on the barren spike 
paler, obovate-hanceolate. Perigone nearly twice as long as the 
nut, gradually nairowed from below the middle to the top. Nut 
rather broader than long. — This very remarkable plant may, as 
seems generally suspected, be an abnonnal form of some species 
(perhaps C. acuta as suggested by Dr. Boott), but after a careful 
re-examination of it I am unable to refer it to any one. — Ilebden 
Bridge, Yorkshire ; said to be now lost by drainage. Mr. S. 
Gibson. P.VI. E. 
.34. C. acuta (L.) ; barren spikes 1 — 3, fertile 3 or 4 slender 
cylindrical-acuminate erect in fruit, lowermost bract leaflike 
often surpassing the stem, with elongate auricles, fr. oblong len- 
ticular nerved biconvex with a short entire beak, nut rounchsh- 
obovate with a short slender beak, glumes acute. — E. B. 580. 
Schk. Ee. Ff. 92. H. a. 44. — St. 2 — .3 feet high, acutely angular, 
rough. L. broad and flat, sheaths not filamentous. Glumes 
narrow-lanceolate acute, on the male spikes sj)athulate-laneeo- 
late, pui’jfle with a green keel. Fr. pale. Fertile spikes usually 
with a few' barren fl. at the end, nodding when in flower. — Wet 
places. P. VI. 
35. C. saxatilis (L.) ; baiTcn spikes 1 (rarely 2), fertile 1 or 2 
roundish-ovate lower one stalked bracteated sheathless erect, /r. 
ovate nerveless inflated : beak short notched, “ nut roundish mu- 
cronate,” stigmas 2 — 3, glumes bluntish. — C. pulla Good. E. B. 
