CYPERACEAE 225 
95. C. caroliniana Schw. Culm 2.5-8 dm. tall, d erect, roughish above, 
strongly reddened at base: leaf- blades 1.5-3 mm. wide, gla bro 1a the races 
- lon ng, 4 
bese ikes se 
thick, densely-flowered, approximate: scales ovate, cota porigynium 
pointed at apex, the orifice entire or emarginate: achene bent at summit 
or tipped with bent style.  [C. Smith cce s don: in non- bres 
regus oe various provinces, N. C. Tex. Ind, and N. J.—Spr 
early su 
96. C. Bushii Pipe Culm 3-9 dm. tall, slender, erect, reddish at base: 
leaf-blades 1.5-3 mm. wide, short- ee especially below, as are the sheaths: 
spikes 2—3, sessile or Bu so, oblong or oblong-cylindric, 5-20 mm. long, 5-8 
mm. thi ick, ensely many- owered, approximate: scales triangular lanceolate, 
apa strongly exceeding perigynia: perigynium 2.5-3.5 mm. long, 1.5-2 m 
thick, tapering to the blunt or slightly Cons icd a apex, the orifice entire or 
emarginate: style bent.—Dry open woodlands, arrens, and fields in caleareous 
distriets, ees Plain i Mii adj. provinees, Miss. to Tex., Ind., 
N. Y., and Mass.—Spr.-s 
XV. ANOMALAE Carey. Culm stout, leafy. Leaf-blades broad, flat, 
glabrous, not septate-nodulose. Terminal spike staminate, linear. Lateral 
spikes pistillate, linear-c icd -— elosely many-flowered in several 
rows. B acts | eaf- pa sheat Peri- 
e s 
nerved, tapering at the base, triangular, 
sient inflated, a. beaked, tho M ak 
iei shallowly bidentat Achen an- 
subapiculate, the Sedi short, ees 
d with achene. Stigmas 3. 
97. C. scabrata Schw. Long stoloniferous: 
culm 2.5-9 dm. bar very roug 
above: 
onary 5-18 wide, elongate, very 
roug upper surface: 
eluted. 1.5—4 em. long: pistillate spikes 
3-8, densely many flowered, narrowly ob- “ 
] 1.2-6 c ng, thick, the 
upper erect, the lower distant and long peduncled: mad vr ex- 
diu. by perigynia, acute to cuspidate: pu brownish-gre 2.54 
long, the body obovoid, 1.5-2 mm. wide, str d bine ed, pupillos 
abruptly a “beaked, the or ifice obliquely eut and hyaline.—Springy ban 
oods, e less caleareous distriets, but not in strongly acid districts, 
various Province N of Coastal Plain, S. C. to Tenn., Mich., and P. E. Id.— 
Late s 
XXVI. ATRATAE Kunth. Culm leafy below. Terminal spike staminate 
or gynaecandrous, the lateral 1-10, normally pistillate, from sessile, one and 
closely approximate, to long-peduncled, nodding, and distant. Bracts sheath- 
less or nearly so, dark-colored at the base, the blades short in s da 
tinged. Perigynium membranaceous, straw-eolored, often dark- need. “elliptic 
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