Cyperaceee. 
397 
fr., without a beak or narrowed to a very short truncate 
beak.— Damp woods; Olsberg near B&le, Laufenburg, 
Giitsch near Lucerne, Frauenthaler Klosterwald ; formerly 
near Schoftland where it has been exterminated. 5 
strigosa Huds. 2349. 
— Fem. spikelets 1—3, erect ..... 65 
65. Glumes whitish. Bracts scarious, not foliaceous. Ls nar¬ 
row.—Woods; distrib. but not common. 4 
alba Scop. 2350. 
— Glumes brown. Bracts foliaceous .... 06 
66. Ls glaucous. Fr. with a short, obliquely truncate beak. 
— Damp meadows; everywhere. 4 . panicea L. 2351. 
— Ls green. Fr. with a longer, incised beak. Sheaths of 
the bracts looser than in the last. C. vaginata Tausch. 
—High Alp.; upper Engadine ; O. (Scliwabhorn). 6 
sparsifldra Stend. 2352. 
67 (60). Stem rough. Fem. spikelets erect.—Alp.; G. W. 
(Canziano, Zermatt). 7 . . . hispidula Gaud. 2353. 
— Stem smooth. Fem. spikelets drooping finally . 08 
68. Fem. spikelets distant, linear, all long-peduncled, rather 
lax.—Damp places in the Alp. and subalp, also lower; 
Oreux du Yan and Dole, in the Jura. 5 
ferrugmea Scop. 2354. 
— Fem. spikelets oblong, dense, the upper ones crowded 
and almost sessile.—Alp. and subalp. 7 frlgida All. 2355. 
69 (42). The top of the male spikelet reached or exceeded 
by the top of the upper fem. spikelet. (Stem surrounded 
at the base by sheaths without ls or only terminated 
by a short point; fem. spikelets lax, linear.) Type of 
C. digitata . . . . . - . . . 70 
— The tips of the fem. spikelets not reaching the top of 
the male spikelet ....... 71 
70. Fr. as long as. or slightly longer than, the glumes. Sheath 
of the upper ls red-brown. — Woods; distrib. 4 
digitata L. 2356. 
— Fr. distinctly longer than the glumes. PI. gen. smaller 
than the last, forming a dense tuft Upper sheath green, 
often terminating in a more distinct and slightly spread¬ 
ing limb. Spikelets shorter, more crowded than in the 
last.—Varied with glabr. fr. (v. alpina). *)—Grassy slopes, 
road-sides; distrib. 4 . . ornithopoda Willd. 2357. 
71. Spikelets all separated from one another by more than 
their length ........ 72 
— Spikelets, at least the upper ones, more or less crowded 73 
*) C. ornithopodioides Hausm. (reclinata Fach.) lias also glabr. fr. 
but differs in having blackish brown glumes, and the limbs of its caul, ls 
developed. It is found, according to Christ, in Canton Glarus. 
