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wholly membranous, nearly hiding the fertile spikes. L. all 
radical, lineai-, channeled, rough. — Limestone hills in Wilts and 
Somerset. P. lY. E. 
44. C. digitdta (L.) ; fertile spikes 2 or .3 distant linear erect 
lax, bracts membranous sheathing ohlujm-hj truncate lotvermost 
with a setaceous leajtike point, fr. obovate trigonous narrowed 
below equalling gl., beak short nearly entire, " nut elliptic-oblong 
triangular shortly-stalked and shortly-beaked." — E. B. 615. 
Schk. H. 38. H. b. 14. — St. 0 — 8 in. "high, erect, sheathed at 
the base, leafless, taller than the flat radical leaves. — Woods on 
limestone, rai-e. P. IV. V. E. 
XXXX Fr. hairy or doxony or scabrous. Bracts not sheathing 
{except slightly in No. 49).— 4. Male spike 1. 
45. C. prce'cox (Jacq.) ; fertile sjnkes 1 — 3 oblong-ovoid near 
together sessile, bracts clasping the lowest leaflike and slightly 
sheathing, gl broadly oyafe-ac!<«»'«a<e with excurrent midrib, /r. 
ovate-rhomhoidal trigonous with an entire mouth, nut obovate 
narrowed below trigonous, base of the style smTounded by a 
prominent ring, stoboliferous. — E. B. 1099. Schk. F. 27. it. b. 
24. R. 261. — St. 3 — 12 in. high. Lowermost spike often slightly 
stalked.— D17 places. P. IV. V. E. S. L 
46. C ericetdrum (Poll.) ; fertile spikes 1 — 3 ovoid near together 
sessile, bracts clasping all membranous, gl. obovate very blunt 
Jimly ciliate midrib not reaching the top, fr. obovate trigonous 
with a truncate beak, stoboliferous. — Schk. J. 42. H, b. 26. 
B. 262. C. ciliata Wilkl. — Gl. brown with a broad pale edge, 
all very blunt. St. 3 — 12 in. high. — Gogmagog Hills, Cambridge. 
P. V. E. 
47. C. montdna (L.) ; fertile spikes 1 — 3 ovoid crowded sessile, 
bracts small membranous the lowest with an awlshaped point, 
gl. of fertile spikes blunt notched and mucrouate, nan-owed 
below oblong-obovate trigonous with a short notched beak, nut 
oblong nan-owed below -with a pji-amidal beak, root fibrous from 
a shaggy thick branched rhizome. — E. B. S. 2924. Schk. F. 29. 
H. b. 21. R. 261. C. collina H. & A. — St. about a span long, 
slender. L. nan-ow ; sheaths of lower 1. red. Gl. \erv dark ; 
midrib narrowly vello-wish. Fr. hairy, its beak purple. — Xear 
Tonbridge AVells." Wynd CH£F, Chepstow. P. IV. V. E. 
48. C. jiiluUfera (L.) ; fertile spikes about 3 roundish near 
together sessile, bracts small lowest scarcely leaflike awUhaped 
not sheathing, gl. broadly ovate mucronate, &tslk.ei. subglobose 
with a short bifid beak, nut subglobose subtiigonous narrowed 
below, persistent base of style recui-ved, root fibrous. — E. B. 885. 
