CYPERACEAE. 
156. Carex marcida Boott. Clustered Field 
r Sedge. (Fig. 826.) 
eR marcida Boott; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 212. p/. 273. 
1840. 
Light green, culms slender, sharply 3-angled, 
rough, at least above, 1°-2° tall. Leaves 1/’ wide or 
less, much shorter than the culm; bracts short, subu- 
late from a broader base, or wanting; spikes several, 
staminate at the summit or some of them wholly 
staminate, clustered in a terminal oblong or oblong- 
cylindric head about 134’ long, the lower ones some- 
times compound; perigynia ovate, dark brown, about 
1’ long, faintly nerved, tapering into a flat serrate 
beak shorter than the body; scales ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, brownish, membranous, acute or cuspi- 
date, about equalling the perigynia; stigmas 2. 
In dry soil, Manitoba to British Columbia, south to 
Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico and Nevada. June-Sept. 
157- Carex teretiascula Gooden. Lesser Panicled Sedge. (Fig. 827.) 
Carex teretiuscula Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 163. Y 
pl. 19. 1794. 
Rather light green, culms slender, erect or re- 
clining, very rough, at least above, 1°-2'%° long. 
Leaves mostly less than 1’’ wide, shorter than or 
sometimes equalling the culm; bracts very small or 
none; spikes several or numerous, staminate above, 
in a narrowly oblong compact or interrupted ter- 
minal cluster 1/-2’ long; perigynia ovate-oval, 
smooth, dark brown, hard, shining, few-nerved on 
the outer side, the body slightly more than '4// 
long, truncate or rounded at the base, short-stalked, 
tapering into a flat conic beak about its own length; 
scales thin, ovate, brownish, acute or short-awned, 
about equalling the perigynia; stigmas 2. 
In swamps and wet meadows, Nova Scotia to Hud- 
son Bay and British Columbia, Rhode Island, Pennsyl- 
vania and Nebraska. Alsoin Europe. May-July. 
Carex teretiuscula prairea (Dewey) Britton. 
Carex prairea Dewey, Wood’s Classbook, 578. 1855. 
Carex teretiuscula vat. ramosa Boott, Ill. 145. 1867. Not C. vamosa Schk. 1806. 
Cluster of spikes compound, branched, the top commonly nodding. Ontario to British 
Columbia, south to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Oregon. 
158. Carex alopecoidea Tuckerm. Foxtail Sedge. (Fig. 828.) 
Carex cephalophora var. maxima Dewey, Am. Journ. 
_ Sci. 43:92. 1842. Not C. maxima Scop. 1772. 
Carex alopecoidea Tuckerm. Enum. Meth, 18. 1843. 
Light green, culms stout but soft, sharply 3- 
angled, erect or reclining, 2°-3° long, roughish 
above. Leaves flat, 14’’-3’’ wide, shorter than or 
equalling the culm; bracts almost filiform, com- 
monly short; spikes several or numerous in a com- 
pact or somewhat interrupted cluster 1/-2’ long, 
rarely also a separated cluster subtended by a leaf- 
like bract; staminate flowers terminal; perigynia 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, short-stipitate, 114’/-2’’ 
long, pale brown, faintly few-nerved on the outer 
side, the tapering rough 2-toothed beak nearly as 
long as the body; scales ovate or oval, light brown, 
cuspidate or short-awned, about as long as the 
perigynia; stigmas 2. 
In meadows, New York and Pennsylvania to Michi- 
gan and Manitoba (according to Macoun). Local. 
