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91. CYPERACE.*. 
E. B. 242. Schk. Mm. 102. H. b. 5fi.— St. 2—3 feet high. 
Fertile spikes I 5 — 2 in. long. — Damp places, rare. P. VI. E. I. 
** Fruit downy or hairy. 
57 . C. pracox (Jacq.); fertile spikes 1 — 3 ohlong-ovate near 
together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest leaflike and slightly 
sheathing, glumes broadly ovate-acuminate, /r. ocate-rhomboidal 
trigonous with an entire mouth, nut ohovate narrowed below 
trigonous : base of the style surrounded by a j)rominent ring, 
root creeping. — E. B. 1099. Schk. F. 27. H. b. 24. — St. 3 — 12 
in. high. Lowermost spike sometimes slightly stalked. — Dry 
places. P. IV. V. 
58. C. montana (L.); fertile spikes 1 — 3 ovate near together 
sessile, bracts small membranous the lowest with an awlshaped 
point, fr. narrowed below oblong-obovate trigonous with a short 
notched beak, nut oblong narrowed below with a pyramidal beak, 
root fibrous. — Schk. F. 29. H. b. 21. — St. about a span long, 
slender. L. narrow. Glumes very dark ; mi(h-ib narrowly yel- 
lowish. Fr. hairy, its beak puri)le.- — Near Tonbridge Wells. 
Mr. W. Mitten. P. VI. VII. E. 
59. C. pilulifera (L.); fertile spikes about 3 roundish near 
together sessUe, bracts small lowest scarcely leaflike awlshaped 
not sheathing, glumes broadly-ovate mucronate, fr. stalked sub- 
globose with a short bifid beak, nut subglobose subtrigonous nar- 
rowed below, root fibrous. — E. B. 885. Schk. I. 39. H. b. 20. 
R. 632. — St. 6 — 12 in. long, slender, at length decumbent. Base 
of the style enlarged. — Wet heaths. P. V. 
60. C. tomentosa (L.); fertile spikes 1 or 2 nearly sessile cy- 
lindrical obtuse, lowermost bract leaflike with a very short sheath, 
glumes broadly ovate acute, fr. obovate subtrigonous scarcely 
beaked slightly emarginate, nut obtuse trigonous narrowed below 
with a short beak constricted at its base, root creeping. — E. B. 
2046. Schk. ¥.28. H. b.28. — St. a foot high, with 3 sharp angles, 
rough upwards, erect. Beak of nut slightly swelling upwards. 
F'r. with copious white down, mouth veiy broad. — Water-mea- 
dows at Merstou Measy, Wilts. P. VI. E. 
61. C. humilis (“Leyss.”); fertile spikes 2 or 3 remote about 
3-flowered inclosed in the membranous sheathing leafless bracts, 
fr. obovate subtrigonous narrowed below with an entire oblique 
mouth, “nut obovate triangular with a short beak.” — H. b. 15. 
C. clandestina Good. E. B. 2124. Schk. K. 43. R. 595. — St. 
about 2 in. high, erect, concealed amongst the leaves. Bracts 
large, wholly membranous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. L. all 
radical, linear, channeled, rough. — C. humilis is much the older 
name. — Limestone hills in Wilts and Somerset. P. IV. E. 
