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ro. Carex grandis Bailey. Large Sedge. (Fig. 680. 
Carex gigantea Dewey, Am. Journ, Sci. 11: 164. 1826. 
Not Rudge, 1804. 
Carex grandis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1:13. 1889. 
Glabrous, culms slender, erect or reclining, 2°-3° 
high. Leaves rather dark green, elongated, 4’’-6’’ 
wide, the uppermost sometimes surpassing the 
' culm; bracts similar to the leaves, much overtop- 
ping the culm; staminate spike sessile or pedun- 
cled, sometimes bearing perigynia at its base; pis- 
tillate spikes 3-5, all stalked or the upper sessile, 
cylindric, 1/-3/ long, sometimes staminate at the 
summit; perigynia much swollen at the base, and 
about 2’’ in diameter, 5/’-6’’ long, many-nerved, 
spreading at maturity, 3-4 times as long as the sca- 
rious lanceolate acuminate or aristate scale, abruptly 
contracted into a subulate 2-toothed beak 2-3 times 
as long as the inflated portion; stigmas 3. 
In swamps, Delaware to Kentucky and Missouri, 
south to Florida, Louisiana and Texas. June—Aug. 
11. Carex oligospérma Michx. Few-seeded Sedge. (Fig. 681. ) 
4] Carex oligosperma Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 2: 174. 1803. 
Glabrous, culms very slender, erect, rather stiff, 
1%°-3° tall. Leaves about 14’” wide, not exceed- 
ing the culm, involute when old; bracts similar, 
overtopping the culm; staminate spike stalked, nar- 
rowly linear; pistillate spikes 1 or 2, globose or ob- 
long, 5/’-10’’ long, sessile or the lower short- 
stalked, few-several-flowered, the upper some- 
times reduced to I or 2 perigynia and with a 
staminate summit; perigynia ovoid, erect, in- 
flated, strongly few-nerved, yellowish green, 2//— 
21%4’’ long, about 114’ in diameter, tapering from 
the middle into a minutely 2-toothed beak; scales 
acute or mucronate, shorter than the perigynia; 
stigmas 3. 
In bogs, Labrador to the Northwest Territory, south 
to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Michigan. June— 
Sept. Ascends to 4ooo ft. in the Adirondacks. 
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12. Carex Raeana Boott. Rae’s Sedge. (Fig. 682.) 
Carex miliaris var. aurea Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 
1:37. 1889. Not C. aurea Nutt. 1818. 
Carex pulla A, Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 602. 1867. Not 
, Gooden. 1797. 
“tees Raeana Boott; Richards, Arct. Exp. 2: 344. 
Culm stouter than that of C. mi/faris, very 
rough above, 114°-3° tall. Leaves 1//-114’’ wide, 
flat, shorter than the culm, nodulose, somewhat 
scabrous on the margins, the lower bracts narrower, 
about equalling the culm; staminate spikes 1-4, 
slender-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3, erect, cylin- 
| dric or oblong, 6’’-12’’ long, sessile or the lower 
short-stalked; perigynia oblong-elliptic, yellowish- 
green, few-nerved, acute, narrowed into a rather 
conspicuous 2-toothed beak; scales lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, yellowish or brown-margined, 
slightly shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 2 or 3. 
On lake and river shores, northern Maine to Lab- 
. rador. Summer. 
