520 
CVI. CYPERACE2E. 
[ Car ex. 
fertile spikelets. E. B. t. 685. — /3. lower sheaths scarcely half 
as long as the stalks, fertile spikelets loose-flowered compound 
at the base. 
Wet pastures and woods, frequent. — j8. Near Inellan, Argyleshire. 
Yorkshire ? If. 5, 6. — Stems 1 — 2 feet high, more or less hairy in 
every part, sometimes shaggy, especially on the side of the sheath 
opposite to the bractea and near the apex : Mr. Babington, however, 
mentions a glabrous form with which we are unacquainted. Mr. 
Turner found a variety in Yorkshire, with the lower part of the fer- 
tile spikelets compound at the base ; but we are not certain if it had 
the long stalks of our var. sometimes attaining 7 inches, although 
the sheath be not more than 2 inches', being thus protruded 5 inches 
beyond it. 
viii. Barren spikelets 2 or more. Fruit glabrous or scabrous. Stigmas 3 
( sometimes 2 in 66). 
* Bracteas with sheaths. 
[63. C. *hordeifurmis Wahl. ( Barley C.) ; barren spikelets 
usually 2, upper one on a long stalk, fertile 3 — 4 erect oblong 
cylindrical or ovate, upper ones approximate on stalks about 
the length of their sheath, lowermost remote on a stalk some- 
times twice as long as the sheath, bracteas long leafy, glumes 
broadly ovate with a hispid point or obtuse and pointless sea- ; 
riose at the margin, fruit (large) scarcely twice as long as the 
glume ovate or oblong acuminate nerved scabrous flat on the 
one side rounded on the other with two ciliato-serrate winged 
margins, beak bifid. C. secalina Sm. (not Willd.) 
Forfarshire, rare: T. Drummond. 11 . 6. — We have reason to 
believe that although Mr. Drummond supposed he had found the E 
specimens in one of his excursions, but uncertain where, they had been I 
accidentally collected in his own garden, where this species was j 
cultivated along with other curiosities which the late Mr. Don had I 
amassed there ; it is therefore as yet a very doubtful native of this 
country.] 
** Bracteas without sheaths. 
64. C. ampulldcea Gooden. ( slender-beaked Buttle C.) ; barren 
spikelet 2 — 3, fertile 2 — 3 distant shortly stalked cylindrical 
erect, sheaths none, bracteas foliaceous, glume lanceolate about 
half as long as the fruit, fruit crowded somewhat membranous 
subglobose inflated striate suddenly contracted into a long 
narrow beak bifid at the point, stem bluntly triangular. E. B. 
t. 780. 
Bogs and marshes, more abundant in Scotland than England. It . 
6 Differs from C. vesicuria in the smooth and nearly rounded 
stem, in the channelled glaucous leaves, and in the fruit, which is 
brownish and not half so large, with a narrower beak and of a different 
