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Stigmas 3. Anth. ending in a point. Gl. dark brown or black. 
—Turfy bog8. P. ^'I. E. S. I. 
Tribe II. Scirpea. 
3. Cla'dixtm Pat. Br. Sedge. 
1. C. 3Iaris'ms (R. Br.) ; panicles lateral and terminal repeat- 
' edly compound, spikelets capitate, st. roimdish leafy smooth, 1. 
finely serrate on the margins and keel. — E. B. 950. — Creep- 
ing. St. 3 — 4 feet high. L. very long, rigid, narrowed and 
triquetrous towards the end. FL in each spikelet 1 — ;3, but 
usually only one nut is produced. — Bogs and fens, rare. P. \TI. 
Common Sedge. E. S. I. 
4. Ehtnchos'poha Vahl. 
1. R. aVha (Y&hY); spikelets in a compact corraib about as 
long as the outer bracts, stam. 2, bristles with declining teeth, 
base of the style without teeth.— ^. JB. 985. St. 40. 7.— 
Slightly creening. St. 6 — 12 in. high. L. narrowly linear. 
Spikelets whitish. Bristles 9 — 12. Filaments slender. — (3. sor- 
dida ; spikelets brownish, in small oval clusters, often over- 
topped by the outer bracts. — Tmfy bogs. P. VII. E. S. 1. 
2. R. fus'ca (Sm.); spikelets in an oral head considerably 
shorter than the outer bracts, stam. 3, bristles with ascending 
teeth, base of the style with erect teeth. — E. B. 1575. <S^. 40. 6. 
— Creeping extensively. St. 6 — Sin. high. L. nearly filiform. 
Spikelets brown. Bristles 6. Filaments dilated. — Bogs, rare. 
South-west of England. L-eland. P. VIl. VIII. E. I. 
5. Eleoc'h.veis R. Br. 
Spikes terminal and solitaiy in all our species. 
1. E. palus'tris (R. Br.) ; gl. rather acute, luxccst gl. \-sicr- 
rounding the spike, stigmas 2, nut roimdish plane-convex with 
rounded edges smooth crowned with the ovate base of the style 
and falling short of the 4 bristles, base of st. clothed with mem- 
branous almost transversely tnincate sheaths. — E. B. 131. St. 9. 
R. viii. 297. — Often only slightly creeping, 6 — 12 in. liigh. 
Sheaths with a verv blunt point on one side. — Wet and marshy 
places. P. VI. ■ E. S. I. 
Watsdni (Bab.) ; lowest gl. rather blunt, nut ohlong very 
blimt a little narrowed below compressed with roimded edges 
Snely punctate-striate crowned with the broad shortly conical 
base of the style and exceeding the bristles. — A. N. H. ser. 2. 
X. 19. — St. 3 — 4 in. high. It differs in no other respect from 
Sp. 2, of which it probablv is a form. — Taynloan, Argyleshire. 
Dr. Balfour.] " S. 
