194 Rhodora | [OcroBER 
latifolia Boott, Ill. Carex 38. t. 93 (1858). Var. latifolia Bailey, 
Proc. Amer. Acad. xxii. 115 (1886), and in Gray's Man. ed. 6; Robin- 
son E Fernald in Gray's Man. ed. 7. C. laxiflora var. patulifolia, in 
part, Dewey in Wood's Class Book.—Plants stout, pale, culms 
broadly thin-angled, the sides 1.7-3.5 mm. wide, the angles entire or 
more or less erose; basal sheaths or the outermost dark purple, soon 
weathering into a dark brown somewhat fibrous mass; broadest 
basal leaves (10) 18-40 mm. wide; broadest cauline 8-20 mm. wide, 
these and the broad bracts very erect, the latter much exceeding the 
culm; sheaths loose, the angles erose-wavy ; upper spikes aggregated, 
the staminate short and very slender, alternately flowered, over- 
topped and obscured by the pistillate spikes; scales pale or greenish; 
anthers small 1.4-2.0(2.2) mm. long both when dry and fresh; pistillate 
spikes alternately flowered, 10-25 mm. long; rhachis broad, smooth; 
scales truncate or retuse, usually muticous, the tissue at summit more 
or less fan-shaped; perigynia plainly stipitate, 3.5-4.0 mm. long, 
rather strongly 27—35-nerved; orifice broad, short, oblique.—Rich 
upland woods: Vermont, western Massachusetts and western Con- 
necticut to the mountains of Virginia, westward through western 
Quebec and Ontario, Kentucky and Tennessee to Wisconsin, lowa, 
and Missouri. 
2. C. BLANDA Dewey, Sill. Jour. x. 45 (1826), also of Britton & 
Brown's Ill. Fl. ed. 2. C. anceps, var. striatula Carey in Gray's Man. 
ed. i. 554 (1848), not C. striatula Michx. C. laxiflora, var. striatula 
Carey in Gray 's Man, ed. 2. 524 (1856); Bailey in Proc. Amer. Acad. 
xxii. 115 (1886), and Gray's Man. ed. 6. C. laxiflora & blanda a. 
major and b. minor Boott Ill. Carex 37-38. Pl. 92. fig. 1 & 2 (1858). 
C. anceps, blanda, and striatula of Dewey in Wood's Class Book 
various eds. C. laxiflora, vars. blanda and varians of Gray's Man. ed 
7.—Plants stout or rather slender, bright green, rarely slightly 
glaucous; culms 0.8-2.8 mm. in diam., more or less erose-scabrous 
on the angles; basal sheaths brown; broadest basal leaves 4-12 mm. 
wide; broadest cauline 2.5-9.0 mm. wide; sheaths rather loose, the 
angles usually wavy and erose; bracts exceeding the culm; upper 
pistillate spikes usually contiguous at base of staminate, the latter 
conspicuous or small and inconspicuous, pale; anthers 2.0-2.8 mm. 
long when dry, 3.0-3.5 mm. long when fresh; pistillate spikes 5-30 
mm. long, the rhachis smooth; scales oblong-ovate, rounded or 
acute, muticous or cuspidate; perigynia usually crowded, overlapping, 
spreading-ascending, broadly stipitate, elliptic-obovoid, 24-38 mm. 
long, olive green when dry, strongly 23-30 nerved, apex acute, broad, 
slightly bent or abruptly so at tip.—Rich banks and bottomlands 
about woods in rather dry soil: Vermont and eastern Massachusetts 
to the District of Columbia, and in the mountains to Alabama, 
westward through western Quebec and Kentucky to Minnesota, 
Nebraska, Louisiana, and Texas. 
