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CYPERACEAE. 



VOL. I. 



143. Carex formosa Dewey. Handsome 



Sedge. 



Fig. 1010. 



Carex formosa Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 8: 98. 1824. 



Culms slender, smooth, erect, i-2j tall. 

 Leaves flat, more or less pubescent, the basal 

 i4"-3$" wide, shorter or longer than the culm; 

 lower bract similar to the shorter culm-leaves ; 

 spikes 3-5, all gynaecandrous, oblong-cylindric, 

 dense, i'-is' long, 2.\" in diameter, filiform- 

 stalked, spreading or drooping, the lower dis- 

 tant ; perigynia oblong-ovoid, glabrous, ascending, 

 swollen, faintly few-nerved, 2" long, i" thick, 

 tipped with a very short, emarginate beak ; scales 

 lanceolate or ovate, green, with scarious margins, 

 mostly acute or obtuse, and much shorter than 

 the perigynia, or the lower short-awned and 

 equalling them ; stigmas 3. 



In dry woods and thickets, Massachusetts and Ver- 

 mont to southern Ontario, New York and Michigan. 

 June-July. 



144. Carex oxylepis Torr. & Hook. 

 Sharp-scaled Sedge. Fig. ion. 



Carex oxvlcpis Torr. & Hook. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 409. 

 1836. 



Culms slender, smooth, or nearly so, erect, i-2? 

 tall. Leaves flat, i|"-3tj" wide, pubescent, especially 

 on the sheaths, shorter than or exceeding the culm, 

 the lower bract similar but narrower; spikes 4 or 5, 

 linear-cylindric, f'-2' long, ii"-2" in diameter, 

 rather densely many-flowered, filiform-stalked and 

 at maturity spreading or drooping, the terminal one 

 normally gynaecandrous ; perigynia oblong-oval, ob- 

 scurely 3-angled, round-tapering at base, slightly 

 swollen, if "-2" long, scarcely i" thick, punctate, 

 several-nerved, rounded and abruptly minutely 

 beaked, the orifice emarginate at apex; scales ovate- 

 lanceolate with broad white scarious margins, acumi- 

 nate or short-awned, about one-third shorter than 

 the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



Southern Missouri to Tennessee and South Carolina, 

 south to Texas and Florida. April-May. 



145. Carex Davisii Schwein. & Torr. Davis' Sedge. Fig. 1012. 



Carex Davisii Schwein. & Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. I : 326. 

 1825. 

 Carex Torreyana Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 10 : 47. 1826. 



Similar to Carex oxylepis, culms stouter, ir-3 tall. 

 Leaves ii"-3" wide, flat, pubescent, especially on the 

 sheaths, the basal ones shorter or longer than the 

 culm ; lower bract foliaceous, often overtopping the 

 spikes ; spikes 3-5, linear-oblong or oblong-cylindric, 

 clustered near the summit or the lower one distant, 

 dense, Y-i long, 3" or less in diameter, all filiform- 

 stalked and at length spreading or drooping, the ter- 

 minal gynaecandrous ; perigynia oblong-ovoid, much 

 swollen, glabrous, strongly several-nerved, 2"-2i" long, 

 rather more than i" thick, tipped with a very short, 

 minutely 2-toothed beak ; scales ovate-lanceolate, long- 

 awned, spreading, shorter or longer than the peri- 

 gynia; stigmas 3. 



In moist thickets and meadows, Massachusetts to Minne- 

 sota, south to Georgia, Kentucky and Texas. May-July. 



