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96. CYPERACE^. 
plane-convex narrowed below nearly entire at the point with 
smooth edges, nut elliptic tipped with the persistent style, gl. 
ovate nearlv as long as the fruit.— if. a. 24. R. 205. C. lepo- 
rina Linn. Fl. Lap. not Fl. Suec. E. B. S. 2815.— St. 4—8 in. 
high, smooth, triangidar. Glumes reddish with the edges paler. 
Fr. yellow. — Loch na Gar, and Cairn Toul, Aberdeenshire. 
p.vm. s. 
25. C. ovdlis (Good.) ; spihelets about 6 oval contiguous, fr. 
erect ovate-attenuate plane-convex narrowed below by/id at the 
point with membranous edges serrulate above, nut elliptic with 
a short cj'lindiical beak ending in a persistent style, gl. lan- 
ceolate as long as the fruit.— B. 306. Schk. B. 8. C. lepo- 
rina H. a. 22, R. 211. — St. 1—2 feet high, triangidar, smooth 
or roughish above. Gl. acute, brown with a paler membranous 
margin. Fr. yellowish. — Meadows. P. VII. E. S. I. 
iii. Heterostachyte. One or more terminal spikes wholly or 
rarely only partially male, others axillary fertile. (Sp. 2G — 70.) 
* Beak of fr. short, entire or emarginate or shortly 2-toothed. 
t Nut plane-convex. Stigmas 2 — 3. Male spikes 1 or more. 
X Stigmas 2. Sheaths of leaves webbed. Fertile spikes erect. 
L. ultimately revolute-edged ; lowest sheaths ttsually leafless. 
26. C. stric'ta (Good.); fertile spikes erect long-cylindiical, 
bracts aiiricled lowermost leaflike short, />-. oblong-elUptic act/ic 
compressed veined closely imbricate, nut nearly round shortly 
beaked, sheaths of 1. with Jilamentcm network. — E. B. 914. R. 
230. C. ceBspitosa H. & A. — Densely ca3spitose. St. 2 — 3 ft. 
high, triquetrous, rigid. L. short, narrow. Fertile spikes often 
male at the top. Gl. bhmt or acute, equalling or shorter than 
the fr., naiTow, dark purple ; keel green, Fr. in 6 — 9 regular 
rows.— Marshes. P. VI. E. S. I. 
[C ccBspitdsa (L.) ; fertile spikes erect subsessUe oblong, 
bracts with long narrow auricles lowest slender leaflike short, 
fr. elliptic Imticidar notvdned rather patent, sheaths of 1. finely 
webbed.— -R. 229. BooWs Carcx, t. 62. C. pacif ca I)i-ej.— 
Cffispitose. St. slender, acutely triangidar. L. shorter down- 
wards. Spikes close together. Gl. lanceolate, dark purple ; keel 
rather paler.—" Britain. Dr. Greville." Fries. P. V.J S. 
W Stigmas 2. Sheaths not tcehbed, nsttally all bearing leaves. 
L. ultimately revohdc-edged. Stolonifcrom. 
27. C. acuta (L.) ; male sjnkes 1 — 3, fertile 2 — 4 slender 
cvlindrical-acuminate erect with fruit, lowermost bract leaflike 
often overtopping the stem with long auricles, fr. oblong len- 
