CAUICX. 
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lower elongated with exserted ])eduneles, hraets with sheathing 
bases, glumes nmeronate, fr. ovate triquetrous with 2 principal 
green suhinarginal ribs on the outer surface, beak broad hitid 
rough at the edges, nut obooate attenuated below roughish. — E. B. 
123,'). Schk. Rit. IGO. //. h.d9. R.(V2A. — St. triangular, smooth, 
1 — ,‘l or 4 feet high. S]>ikes often very distant ; peduncles of the 
upper ones frecpiently quite included, never much e.xserted, of 
the lower often greatly exserted. Glumes dark purple, with a 
greenish-yellow midrib. Fr. brown or deeply tinged with jmr- 
ple, with 2 prominent ribs always green ; nut brown. Barren 
spike with brown glumes. — Dry heaths and moors. P. VI. VII. 
44. C. lanngata (Sm.) ; fertile spikes remote cylindrical their 
j)eduncles more or less exserted, bracts with sheathing bases, 
glumes acute, fr. ovate-attenuated striated with a long deeply 
bifid beak with glahi'ous edges, nut subpyriform attenuated be- 
low triangular smooth. — E. B. 1387. Schk. Bbh. IIG. and Sss. 
162. H. b. 38. R. 623. — St. smooth, 2 — 3 feet high. Spikes 
distant, erect or droo])ing. Glumes often acute on the barren 
spike, always so on the others, purple with a paler dorsal longi- 
tudinal band. Fr. green; not yellowisb. L. broad. — Marshes 
and wet thickets, rather rare. P. VI. 
45. C. panicea (L.) ; fertile spikes remote subcylinch-ical with 
distant fl. on exserted stalks, bracts leatlike sheathing, glumes 
rather acute, fr. ovate-subglobose inflated with a short terete 
truncate beak, nut obovate-oblong bluntly trigonous with a cylin- 
drical beak.— E. B. 1505. Schk. LI. 100. H. b. 33.— St. 1—2 
feet high, erect, smooth. Fertile spikes about 2. Glumes ob- 
long, more or less acute, dark brown with a green keel and mem- 
branous pale margins. Lowermost bract about as long as its 
spike, the rest shorter, sheaths close. — Marshy places. P. VI. 
46. C. vaginata (Tausch!); fertile spikes remote w’ith distant 
fl. on exserted stalks, bracts sheathing scarcely leaflike, glumes 
bluntish,/r. ovate triquetrous glabrous with a short terete smoof/t 
very obliquely truncate and emarginate beak, nut elliptical tri- 
angular “ with a beak slightly thickened upwards.^' — H. b. 17- 
Kunze Riedg. 15. C.phceostachya Sm., E. B. S. 2731. — St. 5 — 6 
in. high, smooth. Fertile spikes 1 — 2. Glumes bluntish. Bracts 
with funnelshaped sheaths. — Dr. Boott refers C. Meilichoferi 
(Sm.) to this species and it is probable that he is correct, although 
Smith expressly says that the fr. is rough-edged. I have never 
seen specimens, but judging from the fig. {E. B. 2293.) and de- 
scription it appears not to be the plant of Schk. Mmmm.'198. nor 
H. b. 52. — Highland mountains. P. VII. S. 
47 . C. depauperata (Good.) ; fertile spikes erect remote with 
3 or 4 fl. and exserted stalks, bracts sheathing leaflike, glumes 
acute, /r, large nearly globose with a long bifid beak with rough 
