Carex. CLX. CYPERACE.E. 579 



head, bracteate, sessile ; perig. ovate, plano-convex, scarcely nerved, aciiini- 

 nate, serrulate on the edge, bifid, subrostrate, a little longer than the ovate and. 

 acuminate glume ; st. triquetrous, scabrous on the edges. — Moist woods, Penn. 

 and N. York, SartweU. 



21. C. CEPHALOIDEA. DcW. 



Spikelets 4 — 6, ovate, aggregated closely, sessile and bracteate; perig. 

 ovate, obtusish, bifid, scabrous on the margin, plano-convex, very diverging in 

 maturity, about twice as long as the short, ovate, obtusish glume. — Dry fields — 

 not abundant, but common over New England and New York. In hedges it 

 is often four feet long, and subrostrate, leafy towards the base. 



22. C. sPARGANoiDEs. Muhl. 



Spikelets 7 — 10, ovate, rather distant, bracteate, sessile; perig. ovate, 

 acute, compressed, diverging, acuminate, 2-toothed, scabrous on the margin, 

 nearly twice the length of the ovate, acute, or mucronate glume ; st. about 2f 

 high, with long, striate leaves. 



/?. ramea. Dew. has one branch or more at the base, with several spikelets in 

 the place of the lower spikelet, and is the C. divulsa of Pursh. — About culti- 

 vated and moist fields, common. 



23. C. MURICATA. 



Spikelets about 5, ovate, sessile, approximate, bracteate, lower ones some- 

 times remotish ; perig. ovate-lanceolate, plano-convex, 2-toothed, horizontal, 

 scabrous on the margin, sometimes longer than the ovate-lanceolate glume. — 

 Fields near Boston, B. D. Greene, and common in Arctic America ; Charles- 

 town, Mass., M. A. Curtis. 



Ci Perigynia fei0. 



24. C. DisPERMA. Dew. 



Spikelets 3 — 4, erect, subapproximate, lowest bracteate ; perig. ovate, 

 obtuse, about two, nerved, plano-convex, short-beaked, glabrous, twice longer 

 than the ovate, acute, submucronate glume ; 5^. slender, 6 — 18' high, with nar- 

 row and linear leaves. — Perigynia 1 — 2, sometimes 3. Wet woods, N. Eng- 

 land, N. York, Michigan and Wisconsin Territory. 



3* Androgyno'us ; stamens at the base of the spikelets. 

 d. Perigynia radiatins. 



25. C. sTELLur.ATA. Good. 



Spikelets 4 — 6, ovate, remotish, sessile ; perig. broad ovate, contracted into 

 a short beak, compressed, slightly bifid, scabrous on the edge, diverging and 

 reflexed, a little longer than the ovate, obtusish glume ; st. erect, stifi', leafy 

 below, 8 — 2^1' high. — Common in wet places over the Northern States. 



26. C. sciRPoiDEs. Schk. 



Spikelets about 4, ovate, approximate, sessile, obtuse, lowest bracteate ; 

 perig. ovate, cordate, compressed, lanceolate or rostrate, scabrous on the margin, 

 diverging or horizontal, longer than the ovate-lanceolate, acute glume ; 5/, 

 6 — 16' high, leaiy tt)WMrds the base. — Wet places in the country. The more 

 lanceolate fruit and glume, and more flexible stem, separate it from the pre- 

 ceding. C. scirpoidcs ha.s the stamens chiefly below the upper spikelet. 



27. C. cuRTA. Good. 



Spikelets 4 — 7, ovate-oblong, upper subapproximate, lower often remote; 

 perig. round-ovate, acutish, obtusish, diverging, convexo-concave, 2-toothed, 

 slightly scabrous, longer than the ovate, white, hyaline glume; st. 1 — 2f high, 

 usually light green, with silvery or hoary spikelets. — Moist places over the 

 country. 



28. C. SPHJEROSTACHVA, Dcw. (C. canesccus, jS. sphccrostachya. T\ick.) 

 Spikelets 3 — 4, ovate, roundish, remote, .sessile, few fruited, 2—6 ; perig. 



ovate-lanceolate or roundish, rostrate, longer than the ovate and hyaline, white 

 glume ; 5^ 1 — 2f higii, slender, flaccid, subrostrate, and with the leaves, green. 

 — Common in N. England and N. York, in wet places. 

 e. Ovate-lanceolate wpUceleta ; few-fruited. 



29. C. Deweyana. S<-hk. 



Spikelets about 3, .sessile, ovate-lanceolate, alternate, subremote, highest 

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