54 KEPOKT OF TUB 8TATB BOTANST. 



ered, or sometimes loosely flowered toward the base, often sterile 

 at the apex, approximate, or subdistant, or even remote, the 

 uppermost sometimes erect, the others spreading, recurved or 

 drooping, all sessile or the lowest on short, slender peduncles; 

 bracts leafy or filiform, the lowest about equaling the culm, the 

 others shorter or longer than their respective spikes ; perigynia 

 lanceolate, thin, deep-green or olive-colored, nerveless, oblique 

 and tortuous or recurved at the empty apex ; scale narrowly 

 oblong obtuse or acute, a little shorter than the perigynium. 

 Wet places, especially along streams. Common. June. 



47. Carex crinita Lam. 



Stems 2°-4:° high, stout, acutely angled, rough above ; sheaths 

 smooth, fibrillose at the base; leaves mostly shorter than the 

 culm, i'-i" wide, hispid beneath and on the margins; staminate 

 spikes 1-3, |'-3' in length, the longest on filiform stalks ^'-1' long, 

 more or less recurved, or even pendulous ; pistillate spikes 3-5, 

 2'-4' long, cylindrical, curved, densely flowered, or loosely flow- 

 ered and tapering at the base, sometimes staminate at the apex, 

 approximate, all on filiform stalks i'-l^' long, recurved-spread- 

 ing or pendulous ; lower bracts leafy, surpassing the culm, the 

 upper short, filiform, longer or shorter than the spikes ; perigynia 

 roundobovate, stipitate, a little inflated, thin, faintly nerved or 

 nerveless, with a conspicuous entire point ; scale brown, oblong, 

 obtuse, with a rough, green awn, twice the length of the peri- 

 gynium. 



Common in swamps, ditches and wet fields. June, July. 



A tall, robust, coarse-looking species, distinguished by its long, 

 recurved or pendulous bristly fertile spikes. 



Var. minor Boott. This is every way smaller ; fertile spikes 

 more compactly fruited, usually shorter peduncled, the upper less 

 drooping ; scales with less conspicuous awns ; plant paler and of 

 finer aspect. 



48. Carex gynandra Schxe. 



Stems 2°-i° high, stout or slender, erect, rough on the angles 

 and sheaths, those at the base fibrillose ; leaves shorter or longer 

 than the culm, 2'-4" wide, hispid beneath and on the margins; 

 staminate spikes 1-3, cylindrical, the terminal one on a filiform, 

 curving peduncle 1' long, the others short-stalked or subsessile, 



