122 TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Cabex. 
19. C. teretius'cula. Spike more than doubly compound, branched, 
but compact, rather acute : spikets crowded, B. florets at the top : 
capsules expanding: straw sub-cylindrical. 
Linn. Tr. ii. 19. 3— (F. Bot. 1065. E.) 
Root fibrous, (never forming tufts as in the preceding, but throwing up the 
culms as it were separately. Grev. E.) Straw when in flower but one- 
third the length of the leaves: in seed twelve or eighteen inches high; 
triangular, angles rough, acute, but the sides have a longitudinal projec¬ 
tion which gives the whole a cylindrical appearance. Leaves rigid, 
sheathing nearly half the straw, rough on the keel and at the edges. 
Spike egg-oblong, rather pointed. Floral-leaf, the lower one very short, 
terminating in an awn; shorter than the spiket. Spikets and their spicula. 
egg-shaped, pointed, sessile. B. florets uppermost, numerous. F. about 
six. Capsules rough at the edges, expanding; when ripe, longer than 
the scales. Summits two. Gooden.; who observes that it approaches C. 
paniculata, but is only half the size of that in all its parts. (Hooker and 
Wahlenberg deny specific distinction to this plant. Greville considers 
the character of the stem, and what he terms ff the extreme difference in 
habit when growing, and the peculiarity of the one forming immense 
tufts, and the other being scattered and straggling,” sufficient to keep 
them apart. E.) 
Lesser Panicled Seg. {C. paniculata (3. Hook. Welsh: Hesgen rafunog 
leiaf. E.) Marshes near Norwich, discovered by Mr. Crowe. At Ful- 
bourne. Rev. R. Relhan. (Bogs at Llansadwrn and Llandeg-fan, Angle¬ 
sey. Rev. H. Davies. Marshes at Caister and Mautby, near Yarmouth, 
and Bradwell Common, Suffolk. Mr. Wigg. Arram Car, near Beverley. 
Mr. Teesdale. Bogs near Rippon. Mr. Brunton. Ditto. Pentland Hills. 
Grev. Edin. E.) P. May. 
(3) Spikes, one barren, the others fertile: floral leaves membranous. 
20. C. digita'ta. Sheaths membranous, not leaf-like, inclosing half 
the fruit-stalk : spike strap-shaped, upright, barren spike shortest: 
capsules distant. 
(E. Bot. 615. E.)— Leers, 16. 4— Mich. 32. 9 — Scheuch. 10.14— C. B. Pr. 9. 
2; Th. 48. 
Root fibrous. Leaves longer than the straw when in flower, rough at the 
edge, quite smooth on the keel. Fertile spikes of about seven florets. 
Capsules pubescent, not cloven. Summits three. Gooden. Leaves in a 
thick tuft. Stems obscurely triangular, slender, not rough, one half to 
one foot high, entirely naked, except some reddish brown leafy sheaths 
at the base. Barren spike half an inch long, closely tiled, from the same 
sheath with the uppermost fertile spike, and being shorter, over-topped 
by it. Scales numerous, yellowish brown, membranous and shining at 
the ends, and so bluntly rounded as to seem lopped. Fertile spikes three 
or four, alternate, distant, about an inch long, on fruit-stalks. Florets 
alternate, distinct. Scales like those of the barren spikes, as long as the 
capsules. Capsules obscurely triangular, tapering to a blunt point. 
Style divided half way down into three summits. Woodw. 
Fingered Seg. Woods and shady places. Near Bath. Mr. Sole. St. Vin¬ 
cent’s rocks, Bristol, on the south side of the Avon. Mr. W. Clayfield. 
Mackershaw Wood, Yorkshire. Mr. Brunton. Bot. Guide. Thorp-arch 
Wood. Sir T. Frankland. Friary Wood, Hinton Abbey, Somersetshire, 
do. E.) P. May—June. 
