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37. C. fulva Gooden. ( tawny C.) ; barren spikelets 1 or 
rarely 2, fertile ones oblong-oval distant, sheaths elongated 
shorter than the peduncles, bracteas foliaceous, fruit broadly 
ovate ascending glabrous ribbed acuminate with a straight 
rough-edged beak bifid at the point, glumes acute (not muero- 
nate). — a. stem acutely 3-angular scabrous. E. B. t. 1295. 
C. distans ^3. M'Laren. — /3. stem bluntly 3-angular smooth or 
scabrous near the summit, fertile spikelets on longer stalks, 
beak smoother with a more distinct membranous orifice. C. 
speirostachya Sw. : E. B. S. t. 2770. C. Hosteana DC. C. 
Hornschuchiana Hoppe. C. distans y. McLaren. 
Boggy meadows, not unfrequent. — j8. West of Scotland. If.. 6. 
— Stem 1 ft. high, with the habit of C. distans, but smaller; with 
shorter, more lax, paler-coloured, and fewer-flowered, spikes, acute, 1 
not mucronate, glumes, and an obovate, nearly smooth achene. 
38. C. distans L. ( loose C.) ; barren spikelets 1 — 2 on long 
stalks with obtuse scales, fertile 2 — 3 remote erect oblong 
stalked the lower stalks about twice longer than the sheathing 
bracteas upper ones included, glumes mucronate, fruit ovate 
triquetrous equally ribbed pellucidly punctate smooth or rough 
at the upper margins and at the edges of the narrow short bifid 
beak. Boott. — E. B. 1. 1234. 
Muddy marshes near the sea, probably in many places. Anglesea. I 
Kent; Yorkshire. Guernsey. Montrose; near Inverkeithing, Fifeshire; 
Edinburgh; Ayrshire; Argyleshire. If.. 6 Stems 8 inches to 1 
or 1 ^ foot high, slender. Spikelets very distantly placed, their rather 
long peduncles entirely concealed by the sheathing bases of the bracteas. 
Glumes rather pale brown. Fruit green, inclining to brown when 
ripe. Achene ovoid-oblong, pointed at both ends, nearly smooth. 
To this species Mr. Bentham unites C. fulva, in which he is perhaps 
right, and also C. loevigata, C. depauperata, and C. binervis which 
certainly appear to us very different. 
39. C. punctata Gaud, {dotted- fruited C.) ; barren spikelet 1 
rarely 2 with obtuse ferruginous scales, fertile 3 rarely 4 
cylindrical erect stalked with sheathing bracteas, fruit ovate 
tumid glabrous shining pellucidly punctate diverging of a light 
green obsoletely nerved except at the margins with a linear 
bidentate beak larger than the ovate short aristate pale fer- 
ruginous green-nerved glume. Boott. — Schk. Car. Suppl. 
tab. 6. f. 1. C. Helvetica Schleich. C. distans Deslougck. 
Marshy grounds near the sea. About a mile west of Charlestown, 
Cornwall. Vazon Bay, Guernsey. Dingle, Co. Kerry ; Glengariff 
and Berehaven, Co. Cork; Ireland. If.. 6. — Rhizome creeping, 
composed of strong woody fibres. Stem 12 — 18 inches high, erect, 
smooth, leafy at the base. Leaves shorter than the stem. Bracteas 
with striate sheaths, varying in length. Peduncles rough. Glumes 
of barren spikelets, rarely acute or subaristate, the lowest sometimes 
