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CYPERACEjE. (sedge family.) 
49. C* crinita, Lam. Sterile spikes 1-2, often -with fertile 
flowers variously intermixed ; the fertile 3-5, long-cylindrical , densely 
flowered , on exserted nodding stalks; bracts very long, exceeding the 
culm; perigynia roundish-oboxate , slightly inflated , obscurely nerved, 
with a short entire point, shorter than the oblong roughly-awned light- 
brown scale; culm tall, rough and sharply angled, leafy below. — Va¬ 
ries, 1. with the awns of the scales very long (C. pale^cea, Wahl .); 
2. with awns not much longer than the scales (C. gynandra, Schw. 
Anal. Tub .).— Wet meadows and borders of rills, very common.— 
Culm 2°-4° high, with pale leaves, 3-4 lines wide: a somewhat 
variable species, but easily recognized by the numerous long and 
drooping spikes. 
Stigmas 3: perigynium obtusely triangular, indistinctly few-nerv- 
ed, more or less compressed: pistillate spikes on exserted filiform 
drooping stalks. — Limosje. 
50. C. flacca, Schreb. Sterile spikes 1 - 2; the fertile about 3, 
cylindrical , on exserted drooping stalks , commonly staminate at the top ; 
lower bract usually shorter than the culm; sheaths obsolete or minute ; 
perigynia roundish-ovoid , notched at the point, smooth or slightly 
roughened on the angles , about the length of the obtuse or pointed 
black scale; culm sharply triangular, rough, taller than the glaucous 
rigid leaves. (C. glauca, Scop. C. recurva, Huds. C. Barrattii, 
Schw. 4* Torr.) — Marshes of New Jersey, near the coast, Collins , 
Knieskern. — A very variable species, uncertain in many of its char¬ 
acters, whence it has obtained in Europe, where it is widely diffused, 
a dozen or more names in addition to those here given. 
51. c. limosa, L. Staminate spike solitary; the fertile 1-2, ob¬ 
long, 10-20 -flmoered, occasionally with staminate flowers at the apex; 
bracts very narrow , the lowest shorter than the culm / perigynia ovate , 
with a minute entire point, about equal to the ovate mucronate scale. — 
Peat-bogs, New England to Michigan and northward. — Culm 6'-12' 
high, erect, longer than the sharp and rigid leaves. 
52. C. iri'igua, Smith. Staminate spike solitary; the fertile 2- 
4, ovoid or oblong , occasionally staminate at the apex, or rarely with a 
few sterile flowers at the base ; lowest bract as wide as the leaves , long¬ 
er than the culm; perigynia roundish-ovate , with an entire orifice, 
much shorter than the tapering pointed scale. (C. lirnosa, var. irrigua, 
Wahl. C. paup6rcula, Michx. C. lenticularis, Dew. } not of Michx.) 
Peat-bogs, N. New England to Michigan and northward. — Taller 
than the last, growing in clumps, with weaker nodding stems, often 
exceeded by the leaves. 
* * Uppermost spike club-shaped , pistillate above and staminate at the 
base ; the rest all fertile or with a few sterile flowers below : lowest 
bract leaf-like, scarcely equalling the culm, with minute light-brown 
auricles, without sheaths : culm and leaves of a pale glaucous-green 
— AtrAtje. 
