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CVI. CYPERACE^E. 
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short. C. canescens Wahl. — a. beak of fruit emarginate not 
split. C. curta E. B. t. 1386. — 0. alpicolu; smaller, beak of 
fruit sometimes split to its base. C. canescens /3. Wahl. C. Per- 
soonii Sieher. C. vitilis Fr. 
Bogs, in several places, not very general. Very common about 
Glasgow.. — ft. Loch-na-gar ; Ben Lawers; Ben Wvvis. Snailesworth 
dale, Yorkshire ; Durham; Caernarvon; Merioneth. It. 6. — Dis- 
tinguished by its pale elliptical spikelets, and imbricate, compressed, 
almost elliptical fruit. In a. the glumes are whitish with a green 
keel ; in ft. they are usually brown with a white margin, but occasion- 
ally they are as in a. The remaining character taken from the beak 
of the fruit, even were it constant, would scarcely suffice to dis- 
tinguish ft. except as a small or mountain variety. 
11. C. leporina L. ( Hare's-foot C.) ; spikelets 3 rarely 4 
ovate contiguous, fruit elliptical rostrate plano-convex smooth- 
nerved with a scariose bidentate. finally entire orifice scarcely 
longer than the ovate obtuse glume which is scariose at the 
margin. Linn. FI. Lapp. ; FI. Suec. (in part): E. B. S. t. 2815. 
C. Lachenalii Schk. Y. f. 79. C. l'agopina Wahl. 
Rocks, on the west side of Loch-na-gar, and on Cairn-toul, Aber- 
deenshire. 21. 7. — Hoot fibrous. Stem 4 — 8 inches high, smooth, 
rarely rough below the spike. Leaves a line broad, shorter than the 
stem. Spikelets brown. Bracteas broad, ovate, obtuse, the lowest 
aristate, rarely foliaceous and larger than the spikelet. Achene 
elliptical, plano-convex, pale yellow : Bbntt. Linnaeus seems to have 
confounded this and C. ovalis under his C. leporina, but the description 
and specimen preserved in his Herbarium refer to the present species. 
This may be a reason for suppressing the 'name entirely and adopting 
Wahlenberg’s as done by Mr. Babington, but not for transferring it to 
C. ovalis, as done by Wahlenberg and Mr. Bentham. 
12. C. elongala L. ( elongated C.) ; spikelets numerous oblong 
lower ones sometimes rather distant upper approximate, bracteas 
minute or wanting, fruit plano-convex oblong-acuminate many- 
ribbed scarcely bifid at the point spreading longer than the 
glume. E. B. t. 1920. 
Marshes, rare. Aldwark, near Sheffield ; near Manchester ; Over, 
Cheshire; Colemere Mere, Shropshire; Coggeshall, Essex ; \\ eybridge, 
Surrey. Aghagallan, Co. Antrim. 6. — Boots tufted. Stems 1 — 1 4 
foot high, with 3 acute angles, rather rough, as well as the leaves. 
Spikelets brown. Fruit lax. Achene linear-oblong. A very distinct 
species. 
* * * * Spikelets alternate, barren at the base or apex or at both ends, 
lower ones distant. Bracteas foliaceous. Root tufted. 
13. C. remuta L. (distant- spiked C .) ; spikelets several (simple) 
barren at their base very distant, fruit longer than the glume 
oblong-ovate shortly acuminate plano-convex acutely angled 
