Class XXI, Order III. 337 



CAREX STELLULATA. Gooden. Prickly Sedge. 



Spikes androgynous ; about three, remote; diver- 

 gent, acuminate, entire at the mouth. Sm. 



Found in wet meadows. It has three or four roundish spikes 

 with divergent fruit, resembling- small burrs. June. Perennial. 



Subgenus . Stigmas three. 



CAREX MAKGINATA. Early Sedge. 



Barren spike one ; fertile spikes about two, approx- 

 imated, roundish, subsessile ; fruit globular, downy, 

 two toothed, longer than the oblong-ovate scale ; radi- 

 cal leaves, when old, longer than the culm. 



A small species, three or four inches high, and the earliest 

 grass which flowers in this vicinity. The fertile spikes are 

 small and ovate or oblong when in flower, but globular in fruit. 

 Dry woods. April. Perennial. 



CAREX LUPULINA. Hop Sedge. 



Barren spike one ; fertile spikes three, on included 

 peduncles, oblong, approximate ; bractes very long, fo- 

 liaceous ; fruit ovate, ventricose, nerved, with a long, 

 conical, two pointed beak, many times longer than the 

 ovate, mucronate scale. 



Very noticeable in meadows and ditches for its large, oblong, 

 nodding, turgid spikes of fruit. June, July. Perennial. 



CAREX FOLLICULATA. Round spiked Sedge. 



Barren spike one ; fertile spike commonly one, 

 about six flowered, with a visible footstalk ; stigmas 

 three ; fruit ovate, inflated, nerved, its beak with a two 

 parted mouth ; scale ovate, shorter than the fruit. 



Rather smaller than the last, with commonly a single, short, 

 subsessile, inflated, fruit-spike. Swamps. June. Perennial. 



CAREX FLAVA. Yellow Sedge. 



Barren spike one ; fertile spikes about three, sub- 

 approximate, elliptical, with included peduncles ; fruit 



