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an oblique, entire or slightly notched orifice, longer than the 

 ovate, obtuse, dark purple scale. 



" "Western counties." Dr. Torrey in the N. Y. State Flora. 

 It does not appear to have been collected in the State recently. 



104. Carex striata Mx. 



Stoloniferous ; stems 15'-30' high, stiff and erect, acutely 

 angled, rough near the summit; basal bracts purple, fibrillose; 

 leaves shorter or longer than the culm, l"-2" wide, the upper sur- 

 face rough, involute when dry ; staminate spikes 2-3, the terminal 

 one l'-2' long, short stalked or subsessile, the lowest with a seta- 

 ceous bract y -1' in length; pistillate spikes 1-2, distant or 

 remote, the highest sessile, the lowest short-peduncled, densely 

 or subdensely flowered, 9"--18" long, erect; bracts leafy, shorter 

 or longer than the culm, or the highest about equaling it ; peri- 

 gynia oblong-ovate or subglobose, prominently nerved, smooth or 

 roughish with a scattered pubescence, somewhat divergent, 

 abruptly contracted into a short bifid beak with whitish teeth, 

 about twice the length of the ovate, obtuse or acute, thin scale. 



Wet places and boggy shores of ponds. Suffolk county. June. 



Var. brevis Bailey. More slender, the leaves and bracts shorter 

 and narrower (I" wide), the fertile spikes narrower, the highest 

 sometimes sterile at the apex and the perigynia pubescent ; other- 

 wise like the type. 



105. Carex Houghtonii Torre;/. 



Stoloniferous; stems l°-2° high, stiff, erect, acutely angled, 

 rough at the summit; leaves shorter than the culm, I'-g" wide, 

 rough-margined ; staminate spikes 1-2, clavate, the terminal one 

 on a stiff peduncle i'-l' long, the lowest often with a setaceous 

 or brislleform bract as long as the spike or longer; pistillate 

 spikes 1-3, cylindrical or short oblong, subdensely flowered, 

 ^'-1' long, subdistant, the upper two sessile, the lowest on an 

 exserted stalk 3"-9" in length, all erect ; bracts leafj% sheathless, 

 or the lowest short-sheathed, equaling or exceeding the culm; 

 perigynia broadl}'^ ovate, prominently nerved, rough-pubescent, 

 abruptly contracted into a short, slender, sharply toothed beak, 

 a little exceeding the ovate pointed or rough-awned brown scale ; 

 achenium broadly obovate, minutely dotted. 



