GENUS 18. 



SEDGE FAMILY. 



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56. Carex rosaeoides E. C. Howe. Weak Stel- 

 late Sedge. Fig. 923. 



C. rosaeoides E. C. Howe ; Gord. & Howe, FI. Renssalaer 



Co. 33. 1894. 

 C. seorsa E. C. Howe ; Gord. & Howe, loc. cit. 39. 1894. 



Culms caespitose, slender, weak, flattened, often 

 spreading or reclining, 7'-2o' tall, roughened on 

 angles. Leaves i"-2" wide, shorter than the culm; 

 bracts very short, or lowest occasionally developed ; 

 spikes 3-7, the lateral usually pistillate, with 5-20 

 spreading perigynia, subglobose or short-oblong, more 

 or less separate, 2"-$" long, 2"-$" wide, the terminal 

 gynaecandrous, or sometimes entirely staminate, 

 much longer and long-clavate at base; perigynia 

 green, plano-convex, ovoid-oval, broadest near middle, 

 li" long, f" wide, several-nerved on both faces, 

 spongy and round-tapering at base, abruptly narrowed 

 into the smooth beak i-J length of body, its teeth 

 short, erect ; scales ovate, hyaline, shorter than peri- 

 gynia; achene in upper part of perigynium. 



In swampy woodlands, Massachusetts to New York, 

 south to Stone mountain, Georgia. May-June. 



57. Carex sychnocephala Carey. Dense Long-beaked Sedge. Fig. 924. 



C. sychnocephala Carey, Am. Journ. Sci. (II.) 4: 24. 

 1847. 



Culms erect, obtusely triangular, stoutish, smooth, 

 3'-i8' high. Leaves \"-2" wide, usually shorter than 

 the culm ; lower bracts similar to the leaves, much 

 elongated, 3'-i2' long, \"-2\" wide, nearly erect; 

 spikes 4-15, greenish or straw-colored, oblong, 

 densely many-flowered, the larger 4"-6" long, 2\' - 

 $' wide, aggregated and confluent into an oblong or 

 ovoid head ii' or less long; perigynia subulate, 

 substipitate, the margin at base nearly obsolete, z\"- 

 3" long, scarcely \" wide at the base, distended over 

 achene, tapering into a subulate rough 2-toothed beak 

 2-3 times as long as the few-nerved body; scales 

 linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, hyaline, much 

 shorter and rather narrower than the perigynia. 



In meadows and thickets, Ontario and central New 

 York to Iowa and British Columbia. July-Aug. 



Orono 



58. Carex oronensis Fernald. 

 Sedge. Fig. 925. 



C, oronensis Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 37 : 471. 1902. 



Culms erect, triangular, roughened above, slen- 

 der, 2o'~4o' high, in loose clumps. Leaves ii"-2" 

 wide, shorter than culm ; lower one or two bracts 

 usually developed, but inconspicuous ; spikes 3-9, 

 dark brownish, blunt, densely many-flowered, 

 obovoid-oblong, 2\"-A,\" long, 2"-^" wide, loosely 

 aggregated in an oblong or linear-oblong head 

 io"-is" long and 2\"-6" thick; perigynia erect- 

 ascending, subulate, the margin at base nearly 

 obsolete, rounded at base, 2"-2j" long, i"-f " wide 

 at base, distended over achene, tapering into a 

 narrow rough 2-toothed beak shorter than the 

 lightly nerved body ; scales dark brown with 

 lighter midrib and hyaline margins, about as 

 wide and long as the perigynia. 



Dry open places, Orono and Bangor, Maine. June- 

 July. 



