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** Spikelets alternate, sterile at the Vase. Bracteas not foliaceous. 
Bhizome widely creeping. 
7. C. *brizoides L. ( distichous C.) ; spikelets about 6 approxi- 
mate curved arranged nearly in two rows, fruit rather longer 
than the acute glume ovato-lanceolate compressed plano-convex 
erved narrow-winged serrulate, the beak bifid. 
Studley Wood, Yorkshire, y.. 7. — Although we do not doubt 
that the plant said by Mr. Maclvor of the Drumlanrig Gardens to 
have been found by him in 1 844 in the above artificial wood or 
shrubbery may be the species of Linnaeus, we see no reason to believe 
that it is indigenous there. We omitted it in former editions of the 
Flora; Mr. Bentham also passes it over in silence in his Handbook ; 
and by Mr. H. C. Watson it is looked on as a very suspicious native. 
According to De Candolle and Duby it occurs in a wild state in 
France only in the south or on the Jura, so that it is highly impro- 
bable that it grows in this country unless where it had been planted. 
Had Mr. Babington not admitted it into his Manual, we should not 
have deemed it deserving of notice. 
*** Spikelets alternate, barren at the base. Bracteas not foliaceous. Boot 
tufted, without creeping rhizomes. 
f Fruit with a narrow membranous wing or margin. 
8. C. ovalis Gooden, (oval-spiked C.) ; spikelets about 6 
barren at their base oval approximate, fruit as long as the glume 
ovate-acuminate compressed plano-convex striate with a broad 
membranous margin rough at the edge, the beak bifid. E. B. 
1 t. 306. C. leporina Wahl. : Benth. 
Bogs and marshy places. \ . 6. — Stems 1 foot high, triangular. 
1 Spikelets brownish-green, shining. Glumes concealing the fruit. 
Bracteas small, uppermost ones resembling the glumes. 
ft Edges of the fruit acute or obtuse, not winged. 
9. C. stelliddtu Gooden. ( little prickly C .) ; spikelets few (3 — 4) 
barren at their base nearly globose rather distant, fruit larger 
than the glume ovate much attenuate plano-convex sharply 
angled striate spreading, beak bifid serrate at the margin. 
E. B. t. 806. 
Marshy and heathy places. %. 5, 6. — Stem 6 inches to a foot 
high. Leaves nearly as long as the stem. Distinguished by its few, 
much-beaked fruits, placed in small distant spikelets, and spreading, 
when ripe, in every direction. 
10. C. curta Gooden. ( white C.) ; spikelets 4 — 8 barren at 
their base rather distant or sometimes approximate elliptical, 
bracteas very minute (except the lower one), fruit erect broadly 
ovate acute plane above slightly convex beneath rather bluntly 
angled faintly striate longer than the membranous glume, beak 
