91. CYPERACE^. 
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smooth except sometimes near the top, lowest bract longer than 
its own s})ike. C. speirostachya Sm., E. B. S.2770- C. Ilorn- 
schuchiana H. h. 40., Koch. R. 621. — Boggy places. /3. Peaty 
bogs, chiefly on mountains. P. VI. 
.‘19. C. extensa (Good.) ; fertile spikes oblong near together 
subsessile lower one rather distant with a short included stalk, 
bracts very long leaflike, glumes mucronate, fr. ovate triquetrous 
ribbed narrowed below with a straight smooth-edged bifid beak, 
nut oblong-elliptical narrowed at both ends triangular smooth. — 
E. B. 8.‘i;i. Schk. V. Xx. 7-- H. b. 32. R. 655. — St. usually 
ciu’ved, 8 — 12 in. high, bluntly triangular, smooth. Barren spike 
nearly sessile, blunt, its glumes blunt. L. and bracts very nar- 
row, convolute, long. — Marshes, chiefly near the sea. P. VI. 
40. C. pallescens (L.); fertile spikes ovate or oblong with 
exserted stalks aj)j)roximate, bracts Icaflike, glumes mucronate, 
fr. ovate-oblong convex on both sides striated obtuse : beak 0, nut 
linear-elliptical narrowed at both ends trigonous. — E. B. 2185. 
Schk. Kk. 99. H. b. 44. R. 617. — St. slender, acutely triangular, 
rough above, 1 — li foot high. Sjjikes obtuse, pale green, the 
ban-en one sessile darker. — Marshy places. P. VI. 
41. C. punctata (Gaud.); fertile sj)ikes erect cylindrical with 
slightly exserted peduncles particularly the lowest, bracts with 
sheaths, glumes ovate shortly awned, fr. ovate tumid obsoletely 
ribbed pellucidly punctate with a linear bidentate smooth beak, 
nut ovate-rhomboidal narrowed at both ends triangular rough. — 
H. b. 37 . Kunze Riedg. 6. R. 619. — St. smooth, 1 — 2 feet high, 
slender. Spikes distant or the upper ones apju'oximating ; pe- 
duncles usually slightly, the lowest often greatly exserted, rough ; 
lowest s])ike frequently very distant. Glumes j)ale red with a 
broad green longitudinal dorsal band. Ph-. pale, nut broum. 
Barren spike with blunt glumes. — Marshy places near the sea. 
Banks of the Menai near Bangor. Guernsey. P. VI. E. 
42. C. distans (L.) ; fertile sjhkes remote erect oblong, pe- 
duncles mostly shorter than the sheaths of the bracts, glumes 
mucronate, fr. ovate triquetrous equally ribbed pellucidly })unc- 
tate smooth rough at the edges of the bifid narrow beak : inner 
edges of the notch sermlate, nut triquetrous roughish oblong- 
elliptical attenuated at both ends. — E.B.V2SA. Schk.H.^S. H.h. 
42. R. 622. — St. smooth, seldom exceeding a foot high, slender. 
Sjjikes distant, short ; ujjper peduncles quite inclosed ; lower half 
exserted. Glumes brownish. Er. greenish-brown. Nut}’ellowish. 
Barren sjnke cylinch-ical, clavate, with blunt glumes. — Marshy 
places near the sea, sometimes inland on dry ground. P. V. 
43. C. binervis (Sm.); fertile sjhkes remote the ujjper ones 
approximating cylinth’ical their jjeduucles mostly included the 
