. Flowers of the field. Botany. 5 4° CVPEKACEyE radical, flat, shorter, revolute ; siaminate spikelet terminal, 6 lines long ; pistillate spikelets close together, 2 or 3, shortly stalked, spreading in a finger-like manner ; flowers lax ; brads brown and sheathing ; styles 3-cleft; fruit obovoid, and minutely downy.— Woods on limestone ; rare.—Fl. April, May. Perennial. .;i. C. ornithopoda (Bird's-foot Sedge), a closely allied form with broader brads and longer fruit, occurs in Derbyshire and Yorkshire. — Fl. May — July. Perennial. 42. C. humilis (Dwarf Silvery Sedge).—A creeping, tufted speci
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 5 4° CVPEKACEyE radical, flat, shorter, revolute ; siaminate spikelet terminal, 6 lines long ; pistillate spikelets close together, 2 or 3, shortly stalked, spreading in a finger-like manner ; flowers lax ; brads brown and sheathing ; styles 3-cleft; fruit obovoid, and minutely downy.— Woods on limestone ; rare.—Fl. April, May. Perennial. .;i. C. ornithopoda (Bird's-foot Sedge), a closely allied form with broader brads and longer fruit, occurs in Derbyshire and Yorkshire. — Fl. May — July. Perennial. 42. C. humilis (Dwarf Silvery Sedge).—A creeping, tufted species ; steins i—5 in. high ; leaves longer, stiff, involute, curved ; staminate-spikelet termi- nal, about 9 lines long ; pistillate ones 3 — 5, much smaller, stalked,- placed at intervals on the stem, scarcely protruding from the sheath of silvery mem- branous bracts; glumes with membranous ed'ies , styles long, 3-cleft ; fruit ovoid, obtuse, rib- bed, slightly downy,—Limes tone hills in the south-west ; rare.^ PI. May, June, Perennial. 43. C. moutdna (Mountain Sedge)..—A creeping, tufted species, with slender stems, 6—iS in. high ; narrow leaves; spikelets, few, sessile, crowded, bright red - brown, polished ; Iruit obovoid, hairy, longer than t|,ie glumes, witli a short, notched beak.—Heaths and woods in the south.—Fl. .April, May. Perennial. 44. C. pUulifera (Round-headed Sedge).—TuUimI, with fe\y slender steins, 6—12 in. high, 3-anglecI, rough ; leaves shorter, broad, weak, and flexible ; pistillate sp'ikelets 2 oy 3, globose, sessile, close under the terminal staminatt,one ; bracts short, leafy; f!_liimes brown, broadly ovate, pointed ; siyles 3-cleft ; fruit small, nearly globular, shortly beaked.—\A'et heaths ; common.—Fl. May—July, Perennial, 45. 'C. ertcelurum (Heath Sedge),—A creeping, tufted plant ;. C.^REv FILrLlI-ER.^ {RpV!:adcd St'dcj. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been d
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