CYPERACEAE 213 
lower at least pubescent: staminate spike 1-2 cm. long: pistillate spikes 1—4, 
approximate or but little viui oblong, 6-20 mm. long, E = d flowered: 
scales less than half en of 3 mature perigynia, ova to short- 
cuspidate: perigynium 4.5-6 long, sharply triangular, po soft- 
villous towards the apex al Pus SO re the beak 0.5 mm. long, emarginate.— 
Sandy woods, in acid soils, Coastal Plain, Fla. to Miss. and S. C.—Spr.- 
early sum. 
XIII. PicrAE Kükenth. Culm lateral. Leaf-blades flat. Spike one, pis- 
tillate or staminate, linear-cylindrie, densely many-flowered, long-peduncled, 
the bract sometimes present or more often the culm with one to iiio colored 
bract-like sheaths towards the base. Scales 
i ciliate, short- “cusped. Perigynium 
appressed, narrowly obovoid, many-nerved, 
one stipitate, flattened- SAUEN short- 
pubescent, obtuse, beakless, thickish, closely 
enveloping achene. Achene triangular. St 
slender, long-exserted, little enlarged at base. 
Stigmas 3 
49. C. picta Steud. Rootstock thick, creep- 
ing: culm 1-2.5 dm. tall, Maas fibrillose 
a e ades wide: 
staminate spikes 2-5 cm. go p "ilate 
d 4—6 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, brats, 
the scales ET -oblong, obtuse 
die cones aling the numerous is perigynis purplish- tinged: Did er Hin 
oblong- -obovoid, triangular, many-s , 4-5 . long, 1 wide, ee 
at the base and sti ipitate, d Fite to is pointed "but "ende apex 
up Plain near 2 uua La.; also Interior Low Plateaus, NW t to 
C and early sum.—Grows in circular colonies. Known only fro 
"Ren mb. widely rire stations. E local in dry woods and aa soils. 
i 
B 
XIV. DIGITATAE Fries. Culm slender, leafy at the base. Leaf-blades 
narrow, the sheaths usually strongly purplish. Terniinal spike linear, stami- 
nate. Lateral spikes 1-5, approximate, or separated or sometimes basal, oblong 
to linear, 5—20-flowered in few rows, the peduncles included or exserted. Bracts 
sheathing, more or less strongly purplish-tinged, PNE ARM the blade 
absent or rudimentary. Pistillate scales 
strongly gles or reddish-brown-tinged. 
Perigynium membranous, appressed, oblon 
obovoid, pubes nt to glabrate, triangular, 
achene. Stigmas 3, ee deciduo 
Baltzellii Chapm. Rootstock thick, 
x C. 
eeping: culm 1.5-3 dm. tall, ons smoo oth, 
fibrillose at base: leaf-bla des ee wide, 
ding the culm Fun spike 
1.5—2.5 cm. long, long- veduacled, the pistillate ais one at the top and uiid 
at the base of the culm, long-peduncled, 1.5-3.5 em. long, 4-6 mm. wide: per 
