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58. Carex cuspidata Wahl. Cuspidate Sedge. (Fig. 728.) 
Carex cuspidata Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Hand]. (II. ) 
24: 164. 1803. 
Carex salina var. cuspidata Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 246. 
1812. 
Glabrous, culms rather stout, smooth or rough 
above, erect, 1°-2'4° tall. Basal leaves often 
equalling the culm, 1'4’/-3’’ wide, smooth, their 
sheaths more or less nodulose; leaves of the culm 
shorter, similar to the lower bracts, which usually 
overtop the spikes; staminate spikes 1-3, stalked; 
pistillate spikes 2-4, narrowly cylindric, often stami- 
nate at the summit, erect, the upper often sessile, 
the lower stalked; perigynia elliptic, green, 2-4- 
nerved, with a very short entire beak; scales 
lanceolate, pale, acuminate or abruptly contracted 
“into a serrate awn, much longer than the perigynia; 
stigmas 2. 
In marshes, Labrador to the coast of Massachusetts. 
Also in Europe. Summer. 
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59. Carex torta Boott. Twisted Sedge. (Fig. 729.) 
————— YY, Carex torta Boott; Tuckerm. Enum. Meth. 11. 1843. 
Glabrous, rather light green, culm very slender, 
erect or reclining, smooth or slightly scabrous 
above, 114°-3° long. Leaves about 2’’ wide, the 
basal shorter than or equalling the culm, those 
of the culm very short; sheaths not fibrillose; 
lower bract commonly foliaceous; staminate 
spikes 1-3, stalked; pistillate spikes 3-5, all but 
the upper spreading or drooping, linear, 1/—3/ 
long, about 2/” in diameter, sometimes com- 
pound, often loosely flowered toward the base; 
perigynia oblong or narrowly ovate, green, nerve- 
less, narrowed and more or less twisted above, 
1//-14’’ long; scales ovate, obtuse or subacute, 
purple-brown with a green midvein, shorter and 
mostly narrower than the perigynia; stigmas 2. 
In marshes and wet thickets, Maine and Vermont 
to North Carolina and Missouri. Ascends to 2600 ft. 
in Virginia. June-July. 
60. Carex prasina Wahl. Drooping Sedge. (Fig. 730.) 
Carex prasina Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (II.) 24: 
161. 1803. 
Carex miliacea Muhl.; Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 290. 1805. 
Glabrous, rather light green, culm slender, smooth 
or nearly so, reclining, sharply 3-angled, 1°-2'%° 
long. Leaves shorter than or equalling the culm, 
flaccid, roughish, 1'4’/-2'4’’ wide; lower bract simi- 
lar, commonly overtopping the spikes; staminate 
spike solitary, short-stalked, often pistillate at the 
summnit; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, narrowly linear-cylin- 
dric, drooping, the lower filiform-stalked, the upper 
sometimes nearly sessile, 1/-24’ long, 2’’ in diam- 
eter, rather loosely many-flowered; perigynia light 
green, lanceolate, very obscurely nerved, tapering 
into a slender minutely 2-toothed beak; scales ovate, 
acute, acuminate, or short-awned, pale green, shorter 
than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
In meadows and moist thickets, Vermont and Ontario 
to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, south in the Allegha- 
nies to Georgia. Ascends to 4200 ft. in Virginia. May-— 
July. 
