SEDGE FAMILY. 315 
Carex crinita minor Boott. Ill. 18. 1858. 
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Culms slender, 10’—20' tall; leaves 1 14''-2'4"'’ wide; pistillate spikes 1'-1's' long, 2’ thick, spread- 
ing orslightly drooping; perigynia little more than !s'’ indiameter. Maine tosouthern New York. 
jo. Carex gynandra Schwein. Nodding Sedge. (Fig. 740.) 
Carex gynandra Schwein. Ann, Lyc. N. ¥.1:70. 1824. 
Carex crinita var. gynandra Schwein. & Torr. Ann. 
Lyc. N. Y. 1: 360. 1825. 
Similar to the preceding species, culms stout, 
2°-4° tall. Leaves 3/’-6’’ wide, glabrous or their 
sheaths often finely pubescent; pistillate spikes 
1-4’ long, narrowly cylindric, stalked, drooping; 
perigynia oblong or elliptic, faintly few-nerved or 
nerveless, compressed, not at all or slightly in- 
flated, 114’/-2’’ long, and about one-half as broad, 
tapering gradually to an acute entire orifice; scales 
subulate, rough, ascending, 2-4 times as longas the 
perigynia; stigmas 2, rarely 3. 
In swamps, Nova Scotia (according to Macoun) to 
northern New York, Florida and Louisiana. Ascends 
to 5000 ft. in New Hampshire. June-Aug. 
Carex gynandra Porteri (Olney) Britton. 
Carex Portert Olney, Car. Bor. Am. 12. 1871. 
Smaller, bearing the same relation to the species 
that minor does to C. crinita. Maine. 
ry 71. Carex macrokolea Steud. Southern 
/ Glaucous Sedge. (Fig. 741.) 
Carex macrokolea Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 223. 1855. 
Carex verrucosa Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 555. 1824. Not 
Muhl. 1817. 
Glabrous, light green and glaucous, culms stout, 
erect, slightly rough on the angles above, 2°-4° tall. 
Leaves flat or in drying somewhat involute, rough, 
114//-3/’ wide, often equalling the culm, tapering to a 
very long narrow tip, the lower bracts similar, shorter; 
staminate spikes 1 or 2, short-stalked, often pistillate 
at the summit; pistillate spikes 2-8, cylindric, dense, 
1/-2’ long, erect, sessile or the lower stalked; peri- 
gynia dark brown, broadly ovoid, 3-angled, 11%4’’ long, 
usually several-nerved, abruptly contracted into a 
sharp beak about one-fourth as long as the body; scales 
oblong, scarious-margined, rough-awned, as long as 
the perigynia or longer; stigmas 2 or 3. 
In swamps, Missouri to Floridaand Texas. June-Aug. 
72. Carex glauca Scop. Glaucous Sedge. (Fig. 742.) 
‘Carex glauca Scop. FI. Carn. Ed. 2, 2: 223. 1772. = 
Glabrous, pale green and glaucous, culmsslender, 
erect, smooth or roughish above, 1°-2° tall, the 
rootstocks long and stout. Leaves shorter than or 
equalling the culm, smooth or nearly so, about 2// 
wide; lower bract similar to the leaves, but nar- 
rower; staminate spikes mostly 2, stalked; pistillate 
spikes 2 or 3, ascending or at length drooping, 
slender-stalked, linear-cylindric, 1/-2’ long, 3/% 
thick, densely many-flowered, commonly staminate 
at the summit; perigynia brown, ellipsoid, faintly 
few-nerved, or nerveless, minutely. granulate or 
papillose, nearly 1/’ long, minutely beaked, the 
orifice entire; scales ovate or lanceolate, brown 
with a green midvein, acute or obtusish, about as 
long as the perigynia; stigmas 2. 
In meadows, Nova Scotia and Ontario. Adventive 
from Europe. June-Aug. 
