CAUEX. 
62. C. digitata (L.) ; fertile spikes 2 or 3 distant linear erect 
lax, bracts menibrunous sheatliing obliquely truncate lowermost 
with a setaceous leajlike point, fr. oboviite triquetrous narrowed 
below, with a short nearly entire beak, “ nut elliptic-oblong tri- 
angular shortly-stalked and slioitly-bcakcd.” — E. B. 615. Schk. 
H. .38. II. b. 14. — St. 6 — 8 in. high, erect, sheathed at the base, 
leafless, taller than the flat radical leaves. — AVoodson limestone, 
rare. l\ IV. V. E. 
vii. Terminal spikes barren, 2 or more ; stigmas 3. 
* Fruit downy. 
63. C. glauca (Scop.); barren spikes 1 or more, fertile 2 or .3 
at length drooping cylindrical densely flowered with long stalks, 
bracts leaflike scarcely sheathing, glumes ovate acute, fr. obtuse 
elliptical slightly downy entire at the small point, nut roundish- 
ovate triangular. — H. b. 67- Schk. O. P. 57. R. 648. C. recurva 
Iluds. E. B. 1506. — Root creeping. St. afoot or more in height. 
Biirren spikes very variable in number. Fertile spikes often with 
barren fl. at the summit. — /3. Micheliana (Sm.) differs only by 
having quite blunt glumes and smaller fruit. E. B. 2236. — y. 
stictocarpa ; fertile spikes ovate, fr. obovate dotted. C. sticto- 
carpa Sm., E. B. S. 2772. — Wet places. P. VI. 
64. C.filiformis (L.) ; barren spikes 2, fertile H or A remote 
erect sessile oblong, bracts leaflike lowermost slightly sheathing, 
glumes oblong-ovate cuspidate and ciliated at the point, fr. ob- 
long-ovate narrowed upwards into an obliquely truncate beak 
ending in 2 lateral points, nut narrowly elliptical attenuated at 
both ends triquetrous, 1. slender channeled. — E. B. 904. Schk. 
K. 45. H. b. 31. R. 643. — St. 2 feet high. L. with filamentous 
sheaths below. — Boggy meadows. P. V. 
65. C. hirta (L.); barren spikes 2 or 3, fertile 2 or 3 remote 
erect oh\ong-cylindrical stalked, bracts leaflike the lower with 
long sheaths nearly equalling the peduncles, glumes elliptic-lan- 
ceolate with long slender ciliated points, fr. oblong-ovate nar- 
rowed upwards into a deeply divided beak, nut obovate narrowed 
below triquetrous, 1. flat hairy. — E.B. 685. Schk. Uu. 108. H. 
b. 58. — St. 1 1 — 2 feet hi»h, leafy. L. and sheaths shaggy, rarely 
glabrous. Fr. tawny. Occasionally the spikes ai’e compound. — 
Wet j)laces. P. IV. 
** Fruit glabrous. 
66. C. hordeiformis (Wahl.) ; barren spikes 2, fertile 3 oblong 
remote with short exserted stalks, bracts overtopping the spikes 
long leaflike flat sheathing, /r. large ovate plano-convex scabrous 
winged ciliate-serrate narrowed into a long bifid beak, nut oblong- 
obovate trigonous with a long slender beak. — Schk. Ddd. 121. 
