SEDGE FAMILY. 
22. Carex Hartii Dewey. Hart Wright’s 
Sedge. (Fig. 692.) 
Carex Hartii Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. (II.) 41: 226. 1866. 
Glabrous, culms slender, nearly smooth 1%4°-2'%° long. 
Leaves elongated, rough on the margins and lower side of 
the midvein, 2’’-3’’ wide, the upper and the similar bracts 
much overtopping the culm; staminate spikes I or 2, the 
lower sometimes pistillate at the base, borne on a stalk 
%4/-1’ long; pistillate spikes 2-4, scattered, rather loosely 
many-flowered, the upper sessile, the lower slender- 
stalked, 1/-2’ long, about 1%’ thick, all erect or ascending; 
perigynia inflated, ovoid-conic, spreading or the lower 
slightly reflexed, prominently few-nerved, about 3/’ long, 
gradually tapering into the long 2-toothed beak, 2-3 timesas 
long as the lanceolate acute or acuminate scale; stigmas 3. 
In marshes, Ontario and New York to Michigan. Appa- 
rently intergrades with the preceding species. June—Aug. 
23. Carex lurida Wahl. Sallow Sedge. 
(Fig. 693.) 
C. lurida Wahl. Kongl. Acad, Handl. (II.) 24: 153. 1803. 
Carex tentaculata Muhl.; Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 266. 1805. 
Glabrous, culm slender, erect, smooth or slightly 
scabrous above, 114°-3° tall. Leaves elongated, rough, 
rarely more than 2’ wide, the upper and the similar 
bracts usually much overtopping the culm; staminate 
spike usually solitary, short-stalked, elongated; pistil- 
late spikes, 1-4, cylindric, densely many-flowered, 1/— 
2’ long, about 14’ in diameter, the upper sessile, the 
lower peduncled and spreading or drooping; peri- 
gynia inflated, ovoid, tapering into a long subulate 
beak, ascending or the lower spreading, 4’’ long, thin, 
yellowish green, rather conspicuously nerved, longer 
than the rough-awned scale; stigmas 3. 
In swamps and wet meadows, Nova Scotia to Minne- 
sota, Florida and Texas. June-Oct. 
C. tentaculata altior Boott, is a hybrid with C. /upulina. 
Carex lurida flaccida Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1:73. 1889. 
Pistillate spikes '4'-1' long, brown, all sessile or very nearly so, clustered at the summit, rather 
more loosely flowered. Northern New York to North Carolina and Tennessee. 
Carex lurida parvula (Paine) Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 418. 1893. 
Carex tentaculata var. parvula Paine, Cat. Pl. Oneida, 105. 1865. 
Culm 6'-18' high; pistillate spikes only 1 or 2, scarcely more than 14’ long, globose or oblong, 
sessile or very nearly so; perigynia 3/’ long. New Hampshire to Pennsylvania and Iowa. 
Carex lurida exundans Bailey. 
Culms long and spreading; pistillate spikes 1!2'-2's’ long, on very long stalks; scales subulate, 
the lower often much longer than the perigynia. Occasional with the typical form. 
24. Carex Baileyi Britton. Bailey’s Sedge. 
(Fig. 694.) 
Carex tentaculata var. gracilis Boott, 11. 94. 1860. Not 
C. gracilis, R. Br. 1810. 
Carex Bailey Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 22: 220. 1895. 
Glabrous, culms erect or reclining, very slender, mi- 
nutely scabrous above, 1°-2° long. Leaves roughish, 
elongated, 114//-2’’ wide, the upper and the similar 
bracts exceeding the culm; staminate spike solitary, 
short-peduncled; pistillate spikes 1-3, narrowly cylin- 
dric, very densely many-flowered, all erect or ascend- 
ing, 9’’-2’ long, about 4’’ in diameter, the upper ses- 
sile, the lower more or less stalked; perigynia inflated, 
ovoid, 214’/-3/ long, ascending, abruptly contracted 
into the subulate 2-toothed beak, prominently several- 
nerved, the lower about equalling, the upper longerthan 
the linear-subulate ciliate-scabrous scale; stigmas 3. 
Bogs, Vermont to Virginia and Tennessee. June-Aug. 
