336 CYPERACEAE. 
132. Carex pubéscens Muhl. Pubescent Sedge. (Fig. 802.) 
\ Carex pubescens Muhl.; Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 281. 1805. 
Pubescent all over, bright green, stoloniferous, 
culms slender, usually reclining, 1°-2° long. 
Leaves flat, soft, elongated, shorter or longer than 
culm, 2’’-314’’ wide; lower bracts 1/-3/ long, oc- 
casionally overtopping the spikes; staminate spike 
sessile or nearly so, sometimes with pistillate 
flowers at its base; pistillate spikes 2-4, oblong- 
cylindric, rather loosely several-many-flowered, 
erect, 4’’-10’” long, 2/’-2'4’” thick, the upper ses- 
sile, the lower somewhat separated and short- 
stalked; perigynia sharply 3-angled, obovoid, nar- 
rowed to a stipe-like base, densely pubescent, and, 
including the subulate straight minutely 2-toothed 
beak, about 2/’ long; scales ovate, scarious-mar- 
gined, rough-awned or cuspidate, about as long as 
the perigynia; stigmas 3. . 
In woods and thickets, Nova Scotia to North Dakota 
: d New Jersey, Kentucky and Missouri. June-Aug. ; 
133. Carex Fraseri Andr. Fraser’s Sedge. (Fig. 803.) 
Carex Fraseri Andr. Bot. Rep. pl. 6379. 1811. | 
Carex Fraseriana Sims, Bot. Mag. f/. 1797. ‘1811. 
Glabrous, culms smooth, slender, reclining, 10’— 
18’ long. Basal leaves 8/-16/ long, 1/-2/ wide, per- 
fectly flat, firm, spreading, finely many-nerved with 
no midvein, obtuse or subacute at the apex, their 
margins usually finely crumpled in drying; culm 
leaves reduced to clasping basal sheaths; spike soli- 
tary, bractless, terminal, androgynous, %4’-1/ long, 
staminate above, pistillate below, the pistillate por- 
tion dense, about 14’ in diameter in fruit; perigynia 
ovoid, pale green, diverging, thin and somewhat 
swollen, faintly many nerved, fully 2’” long and 
rather more than 1// in diameter, tipped with a 
short nearly truncate beak; scales ovate, obtuse, 
much shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
In rich woods, southwestern Virginia, West Virginia, 
eastern Tennessee, and North Carolina. Ascends to 
4ooo ft. in North Carolina. Locally abundant. Our 
largest-leaved species. May-July. 
134. Carex picta Steud. Boott’s Sedge. (Fig. 804.) 
Carex Boottiana Benth.; Boott, Bost. Journ. Nat. 
Hist. 5: 112. 1845. Not H. & A. 1841. 
Carex picta Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 184. 1855. 
Dioecious, foliage glabrous, light green, culm 
slender, smooth, erect or reclining, 6-12’ long, 
usually much shorter than the leaves. Leaves 
flat, 14//-3/’ wide; spike solitary and terminal or 
rarely with a small accessory one near its base, 
erect, densely many-flowered, the staminate 
about 1’ long, the pistillate cylindric but narrowed 
at the base, 1/-2%’ long, 3/’-4’’ thick, subtended 
by a short purple sheath; perigynia obovoid, 
strongly many-nerved, pubescent at least toward 
the obtuse summit, about 114’’ long, narrowed at 
the base; scales purple, usually with green mar- 
gins and midvein, shining, obovate, acute or cus- 
pidate, longer and wider than the periygnia. 
In woods, Indiana to Alabama and Louisiana. 
Local. Summer. 
