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Plentiful on some of the Highland mountains, especially the 
Breadalbane range; Ben-y-Gloe;, Hartfell, Dumfries-shire. Teesdale. 
y. . 6, 7. — Stem 2 — 6 inches high. Leaves mostly radical, scarcely 
half the length of the stem, soft. One single bractea includes, with its 
sheathing base, the lower part of all the peduncles, which are thus 
somewhat corymbose; rarely there is a distant fertile spikelet. Barren 
spihelet single, frequently on a shorter stalk than the others, and 
therefore appearing as if below them. Fruit dark brown, shining. 
Achene obovate. 
47. C. rariflora Sm. (loose-flowered Alpine C .) ; fertile 
spikelets 2 — 3 upon long stalks narrow-oblong very few- 
flowered lax drooping, sheaths very short mostly membranous, 
bracteas subsetaceous, fruit bluntly triangular ovate with a short 
entire beak faintly nerved nearly as long as the glume, glume 
very broad and concave obtuse minutely apiculate folded round 
the fruit. E. B. t. 2516. C. litnosa y. Wahl. 
Bogs, rare. Head of Glen Dole, south-east side of the Little 
Culrannoeb, and head of Canlochan, Clova mountains; Loch-na-gar, 
and Cairngorm, Aberdeenshire. %. 6. — Creeping. Stems about 
6 inches high. Leaves about half an inch long, but broader than 
those of the next, with which it has been united by Wahlenberg, 
Kunth, and Bentham. Glumes obtuse, very deep brown, with a 
pale dorsal nerve usually running out and terminating in a very 
minute mucro, forming a striking contrast with the pale-coloured 
fruits. 
48. C. limosa L. ( Mud C.) ; fertile spikelets 1—3 upon very 
long stalks oblong-ovate densely flowered drooping, sheaths 
very short, bracteas subsetaceous or lower ones leaflike, fruit 
elliptical compressed ribbed with a very short beak about as 
long as or shorter than the ovate pointed glume. — a. leaves 
narrow linear channelled rough at their edges throughout, 
bracteas subsetaceous, lower glumes slightly acuminate scarcely 
longer than the strongly ribbed fruit, upper ones longer and 
narrower. E. B. t. 2043. — f3. irrigua ; leaves broader flat rough 
only near the point, the lower bracteas foliaceous, lower glumes 
ovate- or narrow-lanceolate much acuminate longer than the 
faintly ribbed fruit, upper ones often broader and shorter. C. 
irrigua Hoppe : E. B. S. t. 2895. C. limosa 13. Wahl. 
Bogs and marshes. Rare in England, mostly found in the northern 
and mountainous parts; more frequent in Scotland and Ireland. — /3. 
Muckle Moss, Northumberland. Terregles, Dumfries-shire; Ben-Im, 
near Loch Lomond ; Clova mountains ; Hill of Knock, Dunferm- 
line. 6. — Creeping. Stems 8 — 12 inches high. Leaves nar- 
row. Fertile spikelets usually 2. Glumes dark brown, subapiculate. 
Fruit greenish brown. In j9. the lower glumes are usually very 
narrow and much attenuate, becoming broader and shorter upwards, 
while this proportion is reversed in a . ; in both the narrowest glumes 
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