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long, somewhat inflated, obovoid-oblong or narrower, few-nerved, 
tapering more or less abruptly into the long and slender, straight, 
mostly smooth two-toothed beak. Achene stipitate, linear-oblong, 
trigonous with blunt angles and flat sides, minutely granular- 
puncticulate, often faintly striate, tapering into the continuous, per- 
sistent, brown style, which is stout at the base, turgid, and sinu- 
ously bent. 
Specimens examined show a range of this species from Con- 
necticut and New York to North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana 
and Texas. The few records of Carex sguarossa from Massachu- 
setts appear to refer to the typical plant. 
CAREX TYPHINOIDES Schw. 
- ~~ About two feet high or rather less, darker green than C. squar- 
vosa, the culm usually stouter and more sharply angled, the lower 
leaves often more approximate and with shorter sheaths. Culm 
smooth below, rough on the angles at the top, leaves and bracts 
broad, 2-5’ wide, rough on the edges, the leafy bracts much ex- 
ceeding the culm, spikes becoming dull stramineous, 2-6, mostly 
3, contiguous or separated, when more than 3 the longer ones . 
often distant, all but the terminal one (or upper two) on slender, 
erect or ascending peduncles, which are sometimes 2’—3’ long; 
all the spikes are longer and narrower than in C. sguarrosa, the 
terminal one 12~20” long, 6’—7” wide, conoid-cylindric, usually 
truncate at base and slightly tapering above the middle to the 
conical apex which is usually pointed with a more or less evident 
tuft of sterile scales. Basal staminate portion of spikes very short 
or obscure, even in the terminal spike rarely over 3/” long, the 
scales oblong or oblong-lanceolate, mostly obtuse, the upper ones 
curiously reflexed in a rosette against the lower perigynia. Peri- 
gynia densely compressed-crowded, the beaks sharply ascending 
except those near the base of the spike, of rather thicker texture 
than those of C. sguarrosa and shorter, 3/-3%’’ long, cuneate- 
obovate, truncate or abruptly contracted to the slender but strong, 
roughish, minutely two-toothed beak, which is strongly nerved at 
the base, and often slightly incurved as well as upwardly bent. 
Scales mostly equalling the body of the perigynium, oblong- 
lanceolate, obtuse. Achene ovate-elliptic, trigonous with concave 
sides, the angles slightly swollen in the middle, very minutely 
granular-puncticulate, not striate, not tapering into the style 
which is very slender, straight, greenish, easily detaching at the 
base or a little above. 
Quebec to Washington, D. C., Missouri and Louisiana. 
About New York I find C. sguarrosa in damp or wet places in © 
woods and meadows; C. ¢yphinoides occurs more particularly in 
