CYPERACE^. 417 



Dry woods. Mass. to Penn. ; common. May. %. — Culm 6 — 12 inches 

 high, triangular, leafy near the base. Leaves as long as the stem; pale green 

 and somewhat glaucous. Resembles the preceding. Pole Sedge. 



94. C. Crawei Dew. : sterile spike single, oblong ; fertile 2 — 3, oblong- 

 cylindric. distant, erect, rather closely flowered, the lowest on a longish 

 peduncle ; perigynium ovoid-oblong, with a short beak, slightly nerved, 

 entire at the orifice, twice as long as the ovate scale. ( Torr. N. Y. Fl.) 



Banks of Black River, near Watertown, N. Y. Dr. Crawe. Culm 4 — 8 

 inches high, erect, leafy. Leaves smooth, as long as the culm, light green. 



Crawe' s Sedge. 



95. C. plantaginea Lam. : sterile spike solitary, pedunculate ; fertile 

 spikes 3 — 4, arising from included or exserted peduncles ; the lower ones 

 with subulate bracts, loose-flowered ; perigynium oblong, triangular-ellip- 

 tic or cuneiform, acute at each end, recurved at the apex, longer than the 

 ovate cuspidate scale. C latifolia Schk. 



Shady woods. Mass. N. Y. and Penn. April, May. %.—Culm8— 20 inches 

 high, erect, with purplish-brown sheaths. Leaves radical, broad, strongly 3- 

 nerved. Plantain-like Sedge. 



96. C. Careyana Toir. : sterile spike solitary ; fertile spike 2 — 3, oblong, 

 few-flowered, loose, lower ones on exserted peduncles ; perigynium ovoid, 

 triangular, smooth, nerved, acuminate, tapering at base, entire at the 

 orifice, twice as long as the ovate mucronate scale. 



Shady woods. N. Y. and Ohio. May. %.. — Culm 1 — 2 feet high, erect, 

 leafy near the base. Leaves linear-lanceolate, strongly nerved, dark green. 

 Closely allied to the preceding. _ Carey's Sedge. 



97. C. eburnea Boott: sterile spike solitary; fertile spikes 2 — 3, erect, 

 3 — 6-flowered, ovoid, with white leafless sheaths and the upper higher than 

 the sterile spike; perigynium obovoid, triangular, short-rostrate, shining, 

 twice as long as the white ovate hyaline scale. C. alba Dew. 



Rocky banks. N. H. Ver. and N. Y. May. %.-^Culms 4—12 inches high, 

 densely cespilose, erect, setaceoas, naked. Leaves in a radical tuft, shorter than 

 the culm, setaceous. Bristly White Sedge. 



98. C. flexilis Rudge : sterile spike solitary, oblong, pedunculate ; fer- 

 tile spikes 2 — 4, oblong-cylindric, on nodding naked peduncles; perigy- 

 nium ovoid, rostrate, bidentate, about as long as the ovate ciliolate scale. 

 C. blepharopkora Gray. 



Moist shady places. N. Y. June. %..—Culm 12 — 18 inches high, erect, 

 striate. Leaves narrow, short, pale green, and with the bracts ciliate. 



Fringed Sedge. 



99. C debilis Mich. : sterile spike solitary, pedunculate ; fertile spikes 

 3 — 4, on long nodding peduncles, filiform, remote, loose-flowered; peri- 

 gynium oblong, subtriangular, alternate, rostrate, bifid, twice as long as 

 the ovate-lanceolate scale. C.Jlezuosa Muhl. 



Wet meadows. Can. to Geor. June. %.—Culm 1—2 feet high, weak and 

 slender, sometimes procumbent, leafy. Leaves narrow. Weak Sedge. 



100. C. arctata Boott : sterile spike cylindric ; fertile spikes 3 — 4, re- 

 mote, on long nodding peduncles, slender, loose-flowered; perigynium 

 ovoid-elliptic, triangular, nerved, beaked, bifid at the orifice, rather longer 

 than the ovate membranaceous mucronate scale. C. sylvatica Dew. 



