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f f f Spikes of distinct sexes. 
* Male spike solitary, female ones sessile or with the pe- 
duncles included. 
18. C. feminine spikes about three, sub-approxi- vam. 
mated, sessile, nearly globose; fruit sub-glo- 
bose, triquetrous, rostrate, bidentate, pubescent, 
shorter than the oblong scale; culm erect. — 
mild. 
Icon. Schk. Car. t. Uuu. f. 167. 
Variable Sedge. 
In dry woods, common. Perennial. May. 
19. C. feminine spikes about two, approximated, marginata. 
sub-globose, sub-sessile ; fruit globose, tomen- 
tose, bidentate, larger than the oblong-ovate 
scale ; radical leaves longer than the culm. — 
Willd. 
Icon. Schk. Car. t. Lll. f. 143. 
Marginated Sedge. 
A beautiful species, and very common, particularly in Jersey, 
in woods and on their borders, also by fences. Perennid. 
April. 
20. C. masculine spike lanceolate, feminine two, vesuta. 
ovate, sessile, approximated ; fruit ovate, ros- 
trate, obliquely pubescent at the mouth, nearly 
equal to the ovate-acute scale. — Willd. 
Icon. Schk. Car. t. Bbbb. f. 182. 
Hairy-beaked Sedge; 
In shady wet woods, especially in the Neck; common. Pe- 
rennial. June. 
21. C. feminine spikes three, on included peduncles: tentacuiata. 
ovate, almost in contact ; bractes very long, 
leafy ; fruit ovate, ventricose, nerved, very 
long, rostrate : mouth bidentate, longer than 
the lanceolate-mucronate scale. — Willd. 
Icon. Schk. Car. t. Ggg. f. 130. 
