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fr. which is broadest below the middle. Nut pale. Root creep- 
in<r. — SjMjiij'y bogs. Muckle Moss, Northumb. Terregles, l)um- 
t'ries. Renima near Loch Lomond. — P. VI. E. S. 
52. C. ushdnta (Wahl.) ; fertile spikes 2 or .'S upon short stalks 
ovate densely-Ho\>ered, bracts scarcely leajiike or sheathing, 
glumes ovate acute, fr. elliptical compressed rouyh-edyed with a 
clooen beak, nut elliptical triangular on a long stalk, root fibrous. 
—E. B. 20-14. Schk. Y. 82. H. b. 47. R. 515.— St. 5—4 feet high. 
L. very short, broad. Glumes dark purple with a slender pale 
midrib. Fr. dark j)urple j)aler below. Nut fuscous. I have seen 
no specimens. — Ben Lawers. Mr. G. Don. P. VII. S. 
ttt Fertile spikes elongated. 
55. C. striejosa (Iluds.); fertile spikes about 4 distant rather 
drooping slender lower ones with e.xserted stalks, braets leaflike 
sheathing, fr. oblong-lanceolate narrowed at both ends triangular 
nerved with an obliquely truncate mouth, nut elliptical triangular 
punctured, 1. broad. — E. B. 994. Schk. N. 55. — St. 2 feet high. 
Sheaths covering nearly the whole length of the peduncles. 
Spikes laxly-flowered. Glumes elli])tic-lanceolate, diaphanous, 
greenish down the back. — Groves and thickets, rare. P. V. VI. 
54. C. sylvatica (Iluds.) ; fertile spikes about 4 distant slightly 
drooping linear with long half-exserted stalks, bracts leaflike 
sheathing, fr. elliptical triangular obscurely nerved narrowed into 
a long cloven smooth beak, nut ohovate-elliptical triangular, 1. 
narrower than in the preceding. — E. B. 995. Schk. LI. 101. H. 
b. 55. R. 605. — St. about 2 feet high, smooth. Sheaths scareely 
eovering half the length of the peduncles. Glumes ovate, acute, 
diaphanous with a green keel. — Damp woods. P. V. 
55. C. pendula (Iluds.) j fertile spikes about 5 distant droop- 
ing cylindrical very long densely-flowered, bracts leaflike lower 
ones with sheaths equalling the flowerstalks upper scarcely 
sheathing, fr. elliptical subtriquetrous tumid with a short trigo- 
nous emarginate beak, nut ellij)tical narrowed at both ends trian- 
gidar.- £.B.2515. ScM.Q.60. R. 604. Huds.{\7G2). C.Aga- 
stachys Ehrh. H. b. 57. C. maxima Scop. (1772).— St. 5 — 6 feet 
high, rough at the angles above. Fertile spikes often 5 or 4 in. 
long, the upper ones frequently with barren fl. at the summit. 
Glumes ovate, mucronate, brown with a green keel. Fr. green, 
ciliated at the mouth. — Damp woods. P. V. 
56. C. Pseudo-cyperus (h.); fertile spikes about 5 drooping 
cylimhical densely-flowered upon long stalks, bracts leaflike 
scarcely sheathing, glumes setaceous scabrous dilated at the base, 
fr. ovate-lanceolate ribbed much attenuated into a deeply bifid 
beak, nut elliptical triangular, st. with acute rough angles. — 
