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CYPERACEAE. 



VOL. I. 



227. Carex oligosperma Michx. Few-seeded 

 Sedge. Fig. 1094. 



Carex oligosperma Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 174. 1803. 



Glabrous, culms very slender, erect, rather stiff, 

 ii-3 tall, long-stoloniferous. Leaves about ij" 

 wide, not exceeding the culm, involute when old; 

 bracts similar, overtopping the culm ; staminate spike 

 stalked, narrowly linear; pistillate spikes I or 2, sub- 

 globose or short-oblong, s"-io" long, sessile or the 

 lower short-stalked, 5-i5-flowered, or the upper some- 

 times reduced to i or 2 perigynia and with a stami- 

 nate summit; perigynia ovoid, erect, inflated, strongly 

 few-nerved, yellowish green, shining, 2.\" long, about 

 ii" in diameter, contracted into a minutely 2-toothed 

 beak; scales acute or slightly mucronate, much 

 shorter than the perigynia ; stigmas 3. 



In bogs, Labrador and Newfoundland to the North- 

 west Territory, south to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania 

 and Michigan. June-Sept. Ascends to 4000 ft. in the 

 Adirondacks. 



228. Carex lurida Wahl. Sallow Sedge. Fig. 1095. 



C. lurida Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. (II.) 24: 153. 1803. 



Carex tentaculata Muhl. ; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 266. 1805. 



C. tentaculata var. parvula Paine, Cat. PI. Oneida 105. 



1865. 

 Carex lurida var. flaccida Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club i : 73. 



1889. 

 Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 



20 : 418. 1893. 

 Carex lurida var. exundans Bailey ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 



i : 299. 1896. 



Glabrous, culms erect, smooth or slightly scabrous 

 above, 6'-3 tall. Leaves elongated, rough, 2"-&' 

 wide, the upper and the similar bracts usually much 

 overtopping the culm ; staminate spike usually solitary, 

 elongated, from nearly sessile to long-stalked ; pistillate 

 spikes 1-4, globose to oblong-cylindric, densely many- 

 flowered, i'-2i' long, 7"-io" in diameter, the upper ses- 

 sile and erect, the lower peduncled and erect, spreading 

 or drooping ; perigynia inflated, shining, ovoid, strongly 

 about lO-ribbed, contracted into a long subulate beak, 

 ascending or the lower spreading, 3 "-42" long, thin, 

 yellowish green, longer than the rough-awned scale ; 

 stigmas 3. 



In swamps and wet meadows, Nova Scotia to Minnesota, Nebraska, Florida and' Texas. Very 

 variable. June-Oct. 



229. Carex Baileyi Britton. Bailey's Sedge. Fig. 1096. 



Carex tentaculata var. gracilis Boott, 111. 94. 1860. Not 



C. gracilis R. Br. 1810. 

 Carex Baileyi Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 22: 220. 1895. 



Glabrous, culms erect, slender, minutely scabrous 

 above, i-2 tall. Leaves roughish, elongated, i"-2 

 wide, the upper and the similar bracts exceeding the 

 culm ; staminate spike solitary, more or less strongly 

 peduncled; pistillate spikes 1-3, narrowly cylindric, 

 densely many-flowered, "all erect or ascending, g"-2 r 

 long, about 4"-6" in diameter, the upper sessile, the 

 lower more or less stalked; perigynia inflated, Devoid, 

 2i"-3" long, ascending, abruptly contracted into a 

 subulate 2-toothed beak about as long as body, promi- 

 nently about lo-ribbed, the lower about equalling, the 

 upper longer than the linear-subulate rough-awned 

 scale ; stigmas 3. 



Bogs, Maine and Vermont to Virginia and Tennessee. 

 June-Aug. 



