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4. Carex folliculatal. Long Sedge. (Fig. 674.) 
Carex folliculata Y,. Sp. Pl. 978. 1753. 
Glabrous, light green or yellowish, culm stout or slen- 
der, erect or reclining, 114°-3° long. Leaves broad and 
elongated, sometimes overtopping the culm, often 14’ 
wide; staminate spike stalked or nearly sessile; pistillate 
spikes 2-4, usually distant, all except the uppermost slen- 
der-stalked, several-many-flowered, the lower often nod- 
ding on a stalk 2’-3’ long; bracts commonly overtopping 
the spikes; perigynia ovoid, somewhat inflated, ascending 
or spreading, green, rather prominently many-veined, ) 
6//-8’ long, 1’’ or a trifle more in diameter near the base, 
tapering from below the middle into a slender 2-toothed 
beak, one-third to one-half longer than the awned broadly 
scarious-margined persistent scale; teeth of the peri- 
gynium nearly erect; stigmas 3. 
In swamps and wet woods, Newfoundland to Maryland, 
~west to Michigan and West Virginia. May-Sept. 
5. Carex intuméscens Rudge. Bladder Sedge. (Fig. 675.) 
Carex intumescens Rudge, Trans. Linn. Soc. 7: 97. 
pl. 9. f. 3. 804. 
Glabrous, culms slender, commonly tufted, erect 
or slightly reclined, 1%°-3° high. Leaves elon- 
gated, dark green, shorter than or sometimes equal- 
ling the culm, roughish, 114’/-3’ wide; bracts simi- 
lar, overtopping the culm; staminate spike narrow, 
, mostly long-stalked; pistillate spikes 2 (1-3) ses- 
sile or very short-stalked, globose or ovoid; peri- 
gynia I-30, spreading or the upper erect, 6’/-10’” 
long, much inflated, about 3’’ in diameter above 
the base, many-nerved, tapering from below the 
middle into a subulate 2-toothed beak, the teeth 
somewhat spreading at maturity; scales narrowly 
7 lanceolate, acuminate or aristate, about one-half as 
long as the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
ey SS In swamps, bogs and wet woods, Newfoundland to 
Manitoba, south to Florida and Louisiana. May-Oct. 
Carex intuméscens Fernaldi Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 418, 1893. 
Perigynia narrower, I-5 in each spike, all erect or slightly spreading. Maine to New York. 
6. Carex Asa-Grayi Bailey. Gray’s Sedge. (Fig. 676.) 
Carex intumescens var. globularis A. Gray, Ann. Lye. 
N. Y. 3: 236. 1834. Not C. globularis \,. 1753. 
Carex Grayi Carey, Am. Journ. Sci. (II.) 4: 22. 1847. 
Not C. Grayana Dewey, 1834. 
Carex Asa-Grayi Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 427. 1893. 
| Carex Asa-Grayi hispidula Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club, 
20: 427. 1893. 
Glabrous, culms stout, erect or slightly assur- 
gent at the base, 2°-3° tall. Leaves elongated, 
; dark green, 3//-4'%4’’ wide, the upper commonly 
overtopping the culm; bracts similar to the upper 
Jeaves, usually much overtopping the culm; stami- 
nate spike mostly long-stalked; pistillate spikes 1 or 
2, globose, dense, about 1/ in diameter; perigynia 
10-30, ovoid, glabrous or pubescent, much inflated, 
many-nerved, about 4’’ in diameter above the base, 
tapering to a sharp 2-toothed beak; scales ovate or 
lanceolate, acuminate or cuspidate, scarious, about 
one-third as long as the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
In swamips and wet meadows, Vermont to Michigan, 
south to Georgia and Missouri. June-Sept. 
