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96. CYPEBACE^. 
summit, nut broadly obovate very blunt with a short thick 
beak, st. triquetrous rough towards the top. — A. N. H. xi. t. 6. 
— St. 6 — 8 in. high. L. fiat, not keeled ; sheaths not fila- 
mentous, lowest leafless. Lowest bract long. Spikes lax below. 
Glumes falling short of the fr., oblong, blunt, pui-plish brown 
with a broad gi-een band up the midi-ib ; on the male spike 
paler, obovate-lanceolate. Perianth nearhf twice as long as the 
nut, gradually narrowed from below the middle to the top. Nut 
rather broader than long. — Nearly allied, I think, to C. vulgaris 
rather than C. acuta. — Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire : said to be now 
lost by drainage. P. VI.] E. 
ft Nut with 3 angles. Stigmas 3, rarely 2. 
X Fruit glabrous. Tenninal spike male at its base. 
31. C. FaArw (Schk.) ; spikes 1 — 4 roimdish or oblong conti- 
guous nearly sessile, //•. obovate veinless rough above with a 
.short notched beak, gl. acutish falhng short of fr., nut obovate 
triquetrous blunt with a short cylindrical beak, bract scarcely 
overtopping the spikes, st. triangular rough towards the top. — 
E. B. H. 2(366. Schk. Gg. 94. & Ppp. 154. R. 235. C. alpina 
Boott's Caix'x, t. 356. — St. 6 — 12 in. high, erect. Gl. brown or 
black, — Glen Callater and Glen Fiagh, Glova. P. VII. S. 
32. C. Buxbaum'ii (Wahl.) ; spikes 3 — 4 oblong sessile conti- 
guous, the lowest shortly stalked rather distant, oval blunt 
compressed ("ultimately trigonous) bidentate roughish above 
veined, gl. cuspidate lower exceeding ft., nut obovate trigonous 
blunt apiculate, lower bract leaflike.— ^. B. S. 2885. H. b. 11. 
Schk. X. & Gg. 76. i?. -235. C. canescens Limi. Herb. —St. 
1 — 2 feet high, triquetrous, rough. Sheaths of the I. connected 
by netlike Jilaments. Gl. nearly black, with a green keel pro- 
longed into a cuspidate point. Fr. glaucous green. — Island near 
Toom Bridge in Lough Neagh. P. VI. I. 
33. C. atrdta (L.) ; spikes 3 — 4 ovate-oblong shortly stalked 
contigiious ultimately drooping, the lowest rather distant and 
with a longer stalk, jfr. elliptic veinless tcith a short terete slightly 
notched beak, glumes acute, nut elliptic triquetrous blunt api- 
cidate, lower bract leaflike.— ^. B. 2044. Schk. X. 77. If. b. 8. 
li. 237. — St. 1 — 1| foot high, triangidar, smooth. L. flat, broad. 
Gl. dark purple ; midrib slender, pale. Fr. yellowish. — Alpine 
rocks. P. VI. VII. E. S. 
XX Fruit glabrous. Tcrtiiitial spike icholly male, solitary. 
34. C. pallcs'cens fL.) ; fertile spikes subpendulous ovate or 
oblong with exserteo. stalks contiguous, bracts leaflike, gl. mu- 
crouate, fr. ovate-oblong convex on both sides veined blunt, 
