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midrib slightly rough and often excurrent at the end. Beak of 
the fr. curved do^vnward8. Lowest fr. declining. — jS. C. Upido- 
carpa (Tausch !) ; barren spikes usually long-stalked, beak of fr. 
often nearly straight, ^unze Riedyr. 13. R. 272. — Wet places. 
P.V.VI. E. S. I. 
j|C Mair'ii (C. & G. !), point of gl. rough, fr. obscurely 
veined naiTowed into a setose-ciliate beak, may occur.] 
53. C. (E'deri (Ehrh.) ; foiile spikes roundish-ovate subsessile 
near together, lowest spike with an included stalk, bracts leaflike 
with short sheaths, gl. blunt (?),fr. sxbylobose inflated ribbed 
smooth suddenly ccmtracted into an erect narrow rough-edged 
bifid heak, nut obovate-trigonous punctate, st. trigonous smooth. 
ZT. b.23. i?. 272.— Much like, but distinct from, 6'./«y«. Fertile 
spikes smaller. Fi'. much smaller than those of C.Jlami, more 
in number, with a shorter and narrower-based beak. Very 
variable in height.— Bogs. P. VI. Vn. E. S. 1. 
54. C. exten'sa (Good.); fertile spikes oblong near together 
subsessile lower one rather distant with a short included stalk, 
bracts very long leaflike ^dth short sheaths, gl. mucronate, fr. 
ovate triquetrous ribbed narrowed into a straight smooth-edged 
hijid beak, md oblong-ellijjtic triangular smooth. — £. B. 833. 
Schk. V. Xx. 72. H. b. 32. R. 274.-6/;. usually cui-ved, 8—12 
in. high, trigonous, smooth. Baiien spike nearly sessDe, blunt ; 
gl. blunt. L. and bracts very narroiv, convolute, long. — Marshes, 
chiefly near the sea. P. VI. E. S. I. 
55. C.fid'x-a (Good.) ; fertile spikes oblong distant with stalks 
exceeding the long sheaths of the leaflike bracts, gl. acute not 
mucronate, fr. ovate triquetrous ribbed smooth with a straight 
rough-edged bifid heak, nut obovate trigonous nearly smooth. — 
K B. 1295 ? R. 252. — -St. triangular, often rough-edged, about 
a foot high. Barren spike spindleshajjed, acute ; gl. blunt. Lowest 
bract frequently, but not always, reaching up to the barren 
spike. Sometimes creeping. — (3. C. Hornschuchiana (Hoppe) ; 
fertile spikes oblong on longer stalks more distant, fi\ more 
inflated and more strongly ribbed, st. trigonous smooth except 
sometimes near the top, lowest bract longer than its own spike. 
H. b. 40. R. 252. C. speirostachja Sm., E. B. S. 2770.— Bo^gy 
places. /3. Peaty bogs, chiefly on mountains. P. VI. E. S. 1. 
56. C. punctata (Gaud.) ; fertile spikes erect cylindrical with 
slightly exserted stalks particularly tne lowest, bracts sheathing, 
gl. ovate shortly awned, y»\ ovate tumid ohseurely veined pelltt- 
cidly punctate with a linear bidentate smooth heak, nut ovate- 
rhomhoidal narrowed at both ends triangular rough. — S. h. 37. 
Kunze Riedg. 6. R. 251. — St. smooth, 1 — 2 feet high, slender. 
Spikes distant or the upper ones near ; stalks slightly (the lowest 
