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28. Carex comosa Boott. Bristly Sedge. 
(Fig. 698. ) 
Carex comosa Boott, Trans. Linn. Soc. 20: 117. 1846. 
Carex Pseudo-Cyperus var. comosa W. Boott, in S. 
Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 252. 1880. 
Similar to the preceding species, culms commonly 
stouter, the leaves sometimes 14’ wide. Staminate 
spike short-stalked, sometimes pistillate at the 
summit; pistillate spikes 2-6, usually 3-5, stalked 
or the uppermost nearly sessile, all spreading or 
drooping, stouter and bristly, about 14’ in diameter; 
perigynia more slender, little inflated, strongly re- 
flexed when mature, tapering into a slender, prom- 
inently 2-toothed beak, the teeth subulate and 
recurved-spreading; scales mostly shorter than 
the perigynia, very rough; stigmas 3. 
In swamps and along the borders of ponds, Nova 
Scotia to southern Ontario and Washington, south to 
Georgia, Louisiana and California. May-—Oct. 
2g. Carex Frankii Kunth. Frank’s Sedge. (Fig. 699. ) 
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Carex Frankii Kunth, Enum. 2: 498. 1837. 
Carex stenolepis Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 3: 420. 1836. 
Not Less. 1831. 
Glabrous, much tufted, culms stout, smooth, 
erect, very leafy, 1°-2%° tall. Leaves elongated, 
roughish, 21%4//-4’’ wide, the upper ones and the 
similar bracts commonly overtopping the culm; 
staminate spike stalked, sometimes pistillate at the 
summit; pistillate spikes 3-6, exceedingly dense, 
cylindric, erect, 1%4’-114’ long, about 4’ in diam- 
eter, the upper nearly or quite sessile, the lower 
slender-stalked; perigynia green, slightly inflated, 
about 1/’ in diameter, few-nerved, obovoid with a 
depressed summit from which arises the subulate 
2-toothed beak; scales linear-subulate, longer than 
the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
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a Felice 
Sie, - 
fibelie 
In swamps and wet meadows, eastern Pennsylvania 
to eastern Virginia and Georgia, west to Illinois, Mis- 
souri, Iouisiana and Texas. June—Sept. 
30. Carex squarrosa I,. Squarrose Sedge. (Fig. 700.) 
Carex squarrosa 1,. Sp. Pl. 973. 1753. 
Glabrous, culms slender, erect or reclining, rough 
above on the angles, 2°-3° tall. Leaves elongated, 
rarely more than 2/’ wide, rough-margined, the 
bracts similar and somewhat overtopping the culm; 
spikes 1-3, erect, stalked, oblong or globose, ex- 
ceedingly dense, rarely over 1/ long, 6//—10’’ in 
diameter, the upper one club-shaped, staminate at 
the base or sometimes for one-half its length or 
more; perigynia yellowish green, becoming tawny, 
spreading or the lowest reflexed, somewhat inflated 
but firm, obovoid, 1’/’-1 %4’’ in diameter, few-nerved, 
abruptly narrowed into the subulate minutely 2- 
toothed beak, twice as long as the scarious lanceo- 
late acuminate or awn-tipped scale; achene linear- 
oblong, tapering into the stout style; stigmas 3. 
In swamps and bogs, Connecticut to Indiana, Michi- 
gan and Nebraska, south to Georgia, Louisiana and 
Arkansas, June-Sept. 
