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too. Carex conoidea Schk. Field Sedge. 
(Fig. 770.) 
Carex conoidea Schk, Riedgr. Nachtr. 67. f. 168. 1806, 
Glabrous, culms slender, rather stiff, erect, 8/-18’ 
tall. Leaves 1//-1%’’ wide, the basal sometimes 
equalling the culm; lower bracts similar to the culm- 
leaves, sometimes oyertopping the spikes; staminate 
spike long-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3, distant, erect, 
oblong or oblong-cylindric, 5’/-12’’ long, 214” thick, 
not densely flowered, the upper nearly sessile, the 
lower slender-stalked; perigynia oblong, obtusely 3- 
angled, narrowed to each end, acute, finely many- 
striate, beakless, 1/’-114’’ long, about 14’’ thick, the 
orifice entire; scales broadly ovate, scarious-margined, 
abruptly contracted into a rough awn, the lower 
longer than the perigynia, the upper shorter than or 
equalling them; stigmas 3. 
In meadows, Nova Scotia to Ontario, south to Rhode 
Island, New Jersey, Ohio and Illinois. May-June. 
1o1. Carex oligocarpa Schk. Few-fruited Sedge. (Fig. 771.) 
Wi Carex oligocarpa.Schk. Riedg. Nachtr. 58, f. 770. 
1806. 
Glabrous, culms very slender or almost filiform, 
spreading or reclining, roughish, 8/-18’ long. 
Leaves about 1/’ wide, spreading, soft, the basal 
shorter than or equalling the culm, the bracts simi- 
lar, usually exceeding the spikes; staminate spike 
solitary, long-stalked or nearly sessile; pistillate 
spikes 2-4, erect or nearly so, distant, loosely few- 
flowered, 4//-8’’ long, less than 2’ thick, erect, the 
lower filiform-stalked, the upper sessile; perigynia 
oblong, firm, pale, finely many-striate, ascending, 
1//-1\%’’ long, abruptly narrowed into a short 
straight or oblique entire beak; scales ovate, tipped 
with a rough spreading awn, longer than or equal- 
ling the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
In dry woods and thickets, Vermont and Ontario to 
Michigan, south to New Jersey, West Virginia, Ken- 
tucky and Missouri. May-July. 
1oz. Carex Hitchcockiana Dewey. Hitchcock’s Sedge. (Fig. 772.) 
raked Hitchcockiana Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 10: 274. 
1826. 
Culms slender, erect, somewhat rough, 1°—2° tall. 
Leaves 1 !4’/-3// wide, the basal mostly shorter than 
the culm, the upper and similar bracts much over- 
topping the spikes, their sheaths pubescent, their 
blades somewhat so; staminate spike stalked or 
nearly sessile; pistillate spikes 2-4, loosely few- 
flowered, erect, rather distant, stalked or the upper 
sessile; perigynia ovoid, obtusely 3-angled, finely 
many-striate, ascending, 114’’ long, nearly 1// 
thick, tipped with a short stout oblique entire 
beak; scales ovate or ovate-lanceolate, scarious- 
margined, rough-awned, longer than or equalling 
the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
In woods and thickets, Vermont and Ontario to 
Michigan, south to New Jersey, West Virginia, Ken- 
tucky and Missouri. May-July. 
