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A very rare species but one well marked by its 1-2 short thick 

 spikes, and its large shining widely divergent perigynia. No 

 specimens of it are in the State Herbarium, but it is said to occur 

 in Westchester county and in the valley of the Mohawk. 



130. Carex monile Tuckm. 



Stems 2°-3° high, slender, erect, rough on the acute angles 

 above the middle; leaves longer than the culm, l^"-2^'' wide, 

 rough at the top and on the margins, lax and somewhat spread- 

 ing ; staminate spikes 2-4, cylindrical or clavate, I'-l^' in length, 

 usually on a stalk 1' long; pistillate spikes 1-3, densely 

 flowered, cylindrical, 1-2^' long, Z"-i" thick, scattered, the 

 upper ones sessile and erect or erect-spreading, the lowest on a 

 slender spreading stalk ^-1' in length, or sometimes sessile and 

 erect ; bracts leaf-like, with obsolete sheaths, far surpassing the 

 culm; perigynia globose-ovate, much inflated, thin and papery, 

 nerved, somewhat divergent, gradually tapering into a long 

 bidentate beak, about twice the length of the acute or pointed 

 scale. 



Wet places, margins of streams, etc. Common. July. 



It may be known by the slender stems and lax leaves, and by 

 the 2-3 distant or remote, mostly erect, narrow, densely flowered 

 spikes, and the globose thin shining perigynia. Forms some- 

 times occur with a single pistillate spike, and such forms having 

 the spike unusually thick might easily be mistaken for C. bullata. 

 The species is very common in the Adirondack region. 



131. Carex utriculata Boott. 

 Stems 2°-4° high, stout, acutely angled above the leaves, smooth, 

 flaccid, conspicuously reticulated below the middle; leaves sur- 

 passing the culm, 3"-5" broad, nodulose-roughened, dark green ; 

 staminate spikes 3-4, the terminal one short-stalked, the others 

 sessile, i'-3' in length, the lowest with a slender bract exceeding its 

 spike; pistillate spikes 2-5, densely flowered, sometimes one or 

 more staminate at the apex, cylindrical, U'-4' long, 4"-6" thick, 

 scattered, the upper sessile, the lower short-stalked, all erect or 

 nearly to ; bracts leafy, the lowest short-sheathing, far surpass- 

 ing the culm ; perigynia, small, turgid-ovate, of a thick texture, 

 few-nerved, divergent, abruptly contracted into a cylindrical, 



