Class XXI. Order III. S17 



two toothed, pubescent, shorter than their oblong 

 scale ; culm erect. Willd. 



Culm slender, triangular, rough at top, smooth below. Bar- 

 ren spike cylindrical. Fertile spikes very short. Capsules 

 globular, with three prominent lines, and a short beak. Scales 

 white at the edge. May. Perennial. 



CAREX VESTITA. Willd. Hairy beaked Sedge. 



Barren spike solitary, lanceolate ; fertile ones 

 two, ovate, sessile, approximated ; stigmas three ; 

 fruit ovate, beaked, with its mouth oblique, pubes- 

 cent, nearly equalling its ovate ; acute scale. Willd. 



Culm triangular, somewhat rough. Barren spike an inch 

 or more in length. Fertile ones shorter, sessile, each furnished 

 with a leafy bracte of considerable size at its base. Stigmas 

 long, giving the outside of the spikes a hairy appearance. 

 June. Perennial. 



CAREX LUPULINA. Muhl. Hop Sedge. 



Barren spike solitary ; fertile ones three, on in- 

 closed footstalks, oblong, approximated ; bractes 

 very long, leafy ; stigmas three ; fruit ovate, inflat- 

 ed, nerved, with a long, conical, two pointed beak, 

 many times longer than their ovate, mucronate scale. 

 Willd. 



Very observable in meadows for its large, inflated spikes. 

 Culm triangular, nearly smooth. Fertile spikes nearly sessile, 

 supported at base by very broad, leafy bractes. Fruit crowded, 

 swollen, terminating in a slender beak. June, July. Perenni- 

 al. 



CAREX FOLLIOULATA. L. Round spiked Sedge. 



Barren spike solitary ; fertile one mostly soli- 



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