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erect, the lower stalks a little longer than the elongated 
sheaths upper about equal to their foliaceous braeteas, glumes 
elliptic-lanceolate diaphanous with a green keel, fruit oblong- 
lanceolate acuminate at both ends nerved slightly recurved 
truncate at the point, beak scarcely any, leaves rather broad. 
E. B. t. 994. 
Groves and thickets, in several parts of the east and middle of 
England ; Cotterell wood, Cheshire. Arniston woods, Edinburgh. 
U. 5, 6. — Stem 1 — 2 feet high. Glume a little shorter than the 
fruit. 
53. C. pendula Iluds. ( great pendulous C.) ; barren spikelet 
usually solitary, fertile 4 — 6 cylindrical densely flowered very 
long and drooping, sheaths nearly equal to the stalks lower 
elongated upper very short, glumes ovate mucronate, fruit 
ovate with a short trigonous notched beak, leaves broad. 
E. B. t. 2315. 
Moist woods and shady places, not very general. It. 5, 6. 
Stem 3 — 5 feet high. Well distinguished by its long, pendulous, 
j cylindrical spikelets, and closely imbricate fruit. Achene elliptical, 
pointed at both ends. 
54. C. glauca Scop. ( glaucous Heath C.) ; barren spikelets 
1 — 3, fertile 2 — 3 cylindrical or ovate ultimately drooping 
densely flowered on long slender stalks, sheaths short scarcely 
any, braeteas foliaceous, glumes ovate, fruit obovate-globose 
scabrous or smooth, beak very short entire. — a. fertile spikelets 
cylindrical, glumes acute. C. recurva Huds. : E. B. t. 1506. — 
d- fertile spikelets cylindrical, glumes obtuse, fruit smaller. 
C. Micheliana Srn.: E. B. t. 2236. — y. fertile spikelets ovate. 
C. stictocarpa Sm. : E. B. S. t. 2772. 
Moist meadows, moors, groves, and alpine rocks. If.. 6 Leaves 
mostly radical, very glaucous. Stems usually about 1 foot, sometimes 
2 feet high. Fruit closely placed, brownish when ripe, closely dotted 
with depressed points, often pellucid, punctate when young, usually 
scabrous with a kind of abortive pubescence, or rather scattered 
papillae, which are sometimes quite wanting in y. 
vii. Terminal spikelets (1 or more) barren. Fruit hairy or downy. 
Stigmas 3. 
55. C. clandestina Gooden. ( dwarf-silvery C.) ; barren spike- 
let solitary, fertile 1 — 3 stalked remote about 3-flowered con- 
cealed by the membranous sheaths of the leafless braeteas, fruit 
broadly obovate-triquetrous slightly downy contracted at the 
base with an entire oblique mouth, leaves longer than the steins 
channelled rough rigid. E. B. t. 2124. C. humilis Leyss. C. 
argentea Vill. 
