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CYPERACEAE. 



VOL. I. 



101. Carex umbellata Schk. Umbel-like Sedge. 



Fig. 968. 



Carex umbellata Schk.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 290. 1805. 

 Carex umbellata var. vicina Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. II : 

 317. pi. D. f. 13. 1826. 



Rather light green, closely tufted and matted, 

 strongly fibrillose at base, stoloniferous,^ culms phyllo- 

 podic, filiform, i'-6' long. Leaves "-i4" wide, slender, 

 ascending, usually much exceeding the culm, some- 

 times i long; staminate spike solitary, terminal, \' or 

 less long, commonly conspicuous ; pistillate spikes 1-3, 

 all filiform-stalked from the basal sheaths or I or 2 of 

 them sessile or very nearly so at the base of the stami- 

 nate, oblong, 6-2O-flowered, 2" -6" long; perigynia usu- 

 ally less than 2' long; body oblong-orbicular, stipitate, 

 finely pubescent, pale, obtusely 3-angled, \"-\\" long, 

 tipped with a subulate 2-toothed beak of nearly its 

 length ; scales ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or short- 

 awned, the lower partly hiding the perigynia ; stigmas 3. 



Dry soil, Nova Scotia to Michigan and Pennsylvania. 

 May-July. 



Carex abdita Bicknell, with short-beaked perigynia, 

 seems to be distinct. It ranges from Quebec to New York, Saskatchewan and Oklahoma. 



102. Carex tonsa (Fernald) Bicknell. 

 Deep-green Sedge. Fig. 969. 



C. umbellata var. tonsa Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 37 : 



507. 1902. 

 C. tonsa Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 492. 1908. 



Deep green, closely tufted and matted, strongly 

 fibrillose at base, stoloniferous, culms phyllo- 

 podic, filiform, i'~4' long. Leaves i"-2" wide, 

 stiff, spreading in age, usually much exceeding 

 the culm but rarely more than 8' long ; staminate 

 spike solitary, terminal, i' or less long, com- 

 monly conspicuous ; pistillate spikes 1-3, all fili- 

 form-stalked from the basal sheaths or i or 2 

 of them sessile or very nearly so at the base of 

 the staminate, oblong, 6-i2-flo\vered, 2" -4" long; 

 perigynia 2" long or more, the body oblong- 

 orbicular, stipitate, glabrous, except beak of peri- 

 gynia which is very sparsely hairy, pale, obtusely 

 3-angled, about i" long, tipped with a subulate 

 2-toothed beak of its own length; scales ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate of short-awned, the lower 

 exceeding the perigynia ; stigmas 3. 



Dry soil, chiefly near the coast, Maine to New 

 York and New Jersey. May-June. 



103. Carex hirtifolia Mackenzie. Pubescent 

 Sedge. Fig. 970. 



Carex pubescens Muhl. ; Willd. Sp. PL 4: 281. 1805. 



Not Poir. 1789, nor Gilib. 1792. 

 C. hirtifolia Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 37: 244. 1910. 



Pubescent all over, bright green, but reddened at 

 base, stoloniferous, culms aphyllopodic, weak, i-2 

 long. Leaves flat, soft, elongated, usually shorter than 

 culm, ii"-3-l" wide; lower bracts i'-3' long, occasion- 

 ally overtopping the spikes, little if at all sheathing; 

 staminate spike sessile or nearly so, sometimes with 

 pistillate flowers at its base ; pistillate spikes 2-4, ob- 

 long-cylindric, rather loosely flowered, erect, 3"-io" 

 long, 2"-2\" thick, the upper sessile, the lower sepa- 

 rated and short-stalked ; perigynia sharply 3-angled, 

 obovoid, narrowed to a stipe-like base, densely pu- 

 bescent, and, including the subulate straight minutely 

 2-toothed beak, about 2" long; scales obovate, trun- 

 cate, scarious-margined, rough-awned or cuspidate, 

 about as long as the perigynia. 



In woods and thickets, Nova Scotia to North Dakota, 

 New Jersey, Kentucky and Kansas. May-Aug. 



