CYPERACEAE 233 
spreading-ascending, ee strongly about d Mae tapering de Nos 
long s "cd a or P sh beak, the teeth 0.5-1 mm. lon ng. [Car 
tricma (Fl U. S) n Muhl.]— —Swam py meadows pe nd woods, peret 
without any prudens ae soil preferences, various provinces, Fla. 
Min nn., and N. S.—(Mez.)—Sum.-early fall. 
120. C. Baileyi Brit. Culm 2-7 dm. tall, ped to base, roughened above, 
strongly purplish-red at base: le d blades 2—4 m. wide: staminate spike 1.5-3 
, peduncled: pis stillate spikes 1-4 c UE densely 20—40-flowered, 
Se or peduncled: perigynium ovoid, 5-7 Sen wide, squarrose, 
straw-col ut 
beak about length of body, the teeth 0.5 mm. long— Swampy meadows and bogs, 
Blue Ridge and more northern provinces, Tenn. to Va., Vt., and N. H.—Sum 
XXXVI. PSEUDO-CYPEREAE Tuckerm. Culm tall, generally stout, acutely 
angled, leafy below. Leaf-blades flat, septate-nodulose. Spikes 3-9, the upper 
1-3 slender, staminate, the others normally pistillate, densely flowered, the 
upper approximate, the lower remote and strongly peduncled, often noddin 
Braets leaf-like, much exceeding the culm, mostly not sheathing.  Pistillate 
scales aristate. Perigynium spreading or reflexed, membranous or stiff, tri- 
angular or circular in cross-section 8 
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m. long, alo osely many-ribbed, gre RCM Wi oO 
straw-color, smooth, stipitate, contracted Satity, ^ "n 
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into a ridged, slender beak. Achene tri- k 
angular, continuous with the slender often 
flexuous style. Stigmas 3, short 
121. C. comosa Boott. Cespitose and , 
not stoloniferous, the culm 5-15 dm NS 
Bes) stout, light- ‘brownish a K o rough- 
above: leaf-blades wide: 
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very rough-awned: perigynium rigid, greenis sh or brownish-tinged, reflexed 
ipu pupa 5-7 mm. long, many-ribbed, the beak smooth, the awns spread- 
ing, 1.5-2 mm. long.—(BOoTTLE-BRUSH SEDGE. )—Open swamps, in calcareous or 
neutral oie. various a Fla. to La. , Minn. and Que.; also Calif. to 
Wash. and Ida.—Sum 
122. C. gether Dewey. Culm pe from creeping n 2.5-7.5 
dm. tall, smooth: leaf-blades 5-10 mm. wide, yellow-gre staminate spike 
solitary, ander uci Dare > spikes 2- 9, n e appro aa. nar- 
dd n , 2.5-9 e ong, ick, many-flowered: epus es rough- 
: per igynium OV oid, 5 7m (n tp Ea r co hare! several ribbed, Mp 
boal 21 —Swamps and bogs, Mi a districts, various provinces N of Coastal 
Plain, Tenn. to Mo., N Mich., and Vt.—Sum —An extre emely e species. 
VII. SQUARROSAE Carey. e or stoloniferous. Culm leafy. 
S blades flat, septate-nodulose. Terminal spike staminate or gynaecandrous. 
Lateral spikes 1-5, pistillate or gynaec androus, ovoid to oblong- enc. poe 
several-nerved, membranaceous, very abruptly truncately contracted into a 
