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(Fee) on the south side of Glen Dole, Clova. if.. 7. — We retain 
what appears to us the oldest name, which was accompanied by a 
description. Wahlenberg no doubt refers to Swartz as the authority 
for C. alpina, but does not mention any work in which he had given 
the name or a specific character. Willdenow adopts Schkuhr’s name, 
and quotes as # a synonym C. alpina FI. Dan. t. 403 ; but our copy 
of that volume (published in 1770) gives no specific or trivial name 
to it. 
26. C. canescens L. ( hoary C .) ; spikelets 3 — 5 oblong ter- 
minal one barren at the base, fertile ones sessile contiguous to 
the upper one except the lowest which is on a short stalk and 
sub-remote, fruit oblong or oval obtuse compressed ultimately 
trigonous nerved bidentate rough with crystalline points shorter 
at the base of the spikelet than the ovate or oblong cuspidate 
glume. C. Buxbaumii Wahl. : E. B. S. t. 2885. C. polygama 
Schk. X. Gg. f. 76. 
Near Toome Bridge, on a small island in Lough Neagh, Ireland. 
It. 7. — Stem 1 — 2 ft. high, erect, acutely triangular, rough, leafy 
at the base, and there clothed with purple sheaths which are torn and 
reticulate at their edges. leaves straight, shorter than the stem. 
Middle spikes smallest, more or less approximate. Bracteas rough, 
auricled but without sheaths, the lowest sometimes longer than the 
stem, upper ones setaceous. Fruit glaucous-green, stained with brown. 
Glumes brown with a pale green nerve. This is C. canescens of the 
Linnean Herbarium, but it is probable that he intended to include also 
C. curta j8. in his description. 
27. C. atrata L. (black C .) ; spikelets 3 — 4 oblong, terminal 
one barren at the base, fertile contiguous shortly stalked in- 
clined, lowest one on a longer stalk and rather distant ultimately 
drooping, lower bractea foliaceous, sheaths scarcely any, fruit 
elliptical triquetrous (when ripe) broader but rather shorter 
than the acute glume, beak terete short bifid at the point. 
E. B. t. 2044. 
On the Welsh mountains; Snowdon, rare. Rocky cliffs on the 
top of a hill near Hartfell, Dumfries-shire ; Breadalbane, Clova, and 
' other Highland mountains, Scotland. If.. 6, 7. — About 1 foot 
high. Leaves usually broad for the size of the plant. Glumes dark 
brown, opaque. Fruit pale yellowish-brown, at first compressed, but 
J as it ripens exhibiting 3 angles towards the base. 
v. Terminal spikelets barren , 1 — 3 (or more) ; the rest fertile. 
Stigmas 2. 
* Beak of fruit entire .' 
f Margin of leaves involute when drg : sheaths not filamentose. 
28. C. vulgaris Fries (common C.) ; spikelets cylindrical 
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