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often greatly) exserted, rough ; lowest spike often very distant. 
Gl. pale red with a broad green longitudinal dorsal band. Fr. 
pale. Nut brown. Gl. of ban-en spike blunt. — Marshy places 
near the sea. Charlestown, Cornwall. Dingle, Kerry. Bantry 
Bay, Cork. Guernsey. P. VI. E. I. 
57. C. dis'tans (L.) ; fertile spikes remote erect oblong, upper 
with included stalks, bracts vnta. sheaths, gl. mucronate,/?'. ovate 
trigonous equally and faintly ribbed pellucidly punctate smooth, 
edges of the bifid nairow beak rough, nut triquetrous roughish 
ohhng-elliptic.—E. £. 12,34. Schk. T. 68. H. h. 42. E. 253.— 
St. smooth, seldom exceeding a foot high, slender. Spikes 
distant, short; lower ped. half-exserted. Gl. brownish. Fr. 
yellowish brown, rather inflated; nut yellowish. Male spike 
cylindrical, clavate, with blunt glumes. — Marshy places, especially 
58. C. biner'vis (Sm.) ; fertile spikes remote, upper ones nearer 
cylindrical their stalks mostly included, lower long with exserted 
stalks, bracts sheathing, gl. mucronate, fr. ovate subtriquetrous 
Kith 2 prominent green submaryinal rihs on the hack other ribs 
faint, beak broad bifid rough at the edges, nut vbovate ?iarrowed 
below roughish.—^. B. 1235. Schk. Err. 160. H. b. 39. E. 255. 1 
— St. triangular, smooth, a foot high. Spikes often very distant ; 
upper stalks often quite included, never much exserted, lower 
otten greatly exserted. Gl. dark pui-ple ; midrib greenish yel- 
low. Fr. brown or deeply tinged with purple, 2 prominent 
ribs always green ; nut brovra. Male spike with blunt glumes. 
59. C. Iceviydta (Sm.) ; fertile spikes remote cylindrical, stalks 
more or less exserted, bracts sheathing, gl. acute, fr. ovate afte- 
7i?iate striate, beak long deeply bifid with rough edges, nut sub- 
pyriform narrowed below triangular smooth. — E. B. 1387. Schk. 
Ebb. 116. & Sss. 162. H. b. 38. R. 254.— St. smooth, 2—3 feet 
high. Spikes distant, erect or drooping. Gl. often acute on 
the male spike, always so on the others, purple with a paler 
dorsal longitudinal band. Rarely 2 male spikes. Fr. green; 
nut yellowish. L. broad. — Marshes and wet thickets, rather 
rare. P. VI. E. S. I. 
60. C. depauperuta (Good.) ; fertile spikes erect remote 3- or 
^-jl., stalks exserted, bracts sheathing leaflike, gl. acute, /r. large 
nearly globose, beak long bifid with rough edges, nut elliptic 
trigonous with blimtish angles.—^. B. 1098. Schk. M. 50.— 
St. 1 — 2 feet high, trigonoufs, smooth. Gl. of the male spike 
blunt. Fr. veiy large and few with many ribs. Spikes very 
distant. — Dry woods, very rai-e. P. VI. E. 
near the sea. P. V. 
—Dry heaths. P. \1. VII. 
