450 THE 8EDOE FAMILT. 



Female catkins green or yellowish-green. 



Female catkins oblong, less than an inch in 



length, slightly drooping. Fruits not 



beaked. Lower bracts leafy, with short 



sheaths. Stems twelve to fifteen 



inches high 32. Pale Caeex. 



Female catkins one to six inches long. 

 Female catkins distant. Stems weak and 

 leafy. 

 Female catkins one or two inches long, 

 on slender stalks. Fruit rather long- 

 beaked 37. Common Wood-sedge. 



Female catkins two to three inches long, 

 very slender, their stalks almost con- 

 cealed in the leaves. Fruit short- 

 pointed 38. StbigoseWood-sedge, 



Female catkins not very distant. Flowers 

 crowded. Stems stout, three to 

 four feet high. 

 Female catkins about two inches long, 



dense, on slender stalks. Scales * 



and fruits spreading, with long 



points 40. Great Pond-sedge, 



Female catkins very slender, four to six \ 



inches long. Stalks almost con- 1 39. Great Pendulous 

 cealed in the sheaths. Fruits small, [ Wood-sedge. 



scarcely beaked ) 



c. Two or three male catkins. Bracts without sheaths. 

 (The lowest one rarely with a sheath.) 

 Fruits obtuse. Catkins dark brown. Leaves glau- '141. Glaucous Heath 



cous. Stems three to twelve inches high . . ) Carex. 



Fruits beaked or pointed. Catkins black or brownish- 

 green. Stems one or two feet high, with long 

 leaves. 

 Fruits much flattened, pointed. Catkins erect, 

 black or deep brown. 

 Male catkins generally three, cylindrical, and 

 obtuse. Herbage glaucous. Stems 



eighteen inches to two feet high 48. Black Swamp Sedgb. 



Male catkins three to five, pointed, and tri- 

 angular. Stems two to four feet high. . 49 Riveb-side Cabex. 

 Fruit inflated. 



Fruit globular, abruptly contracted into a long 

 beak. Fertile catkins nearly sessile ; the 



fruits copious and crowded, yellowish .. 4G. Flask-fruited Sedge, 

 Fruit tapering into a short beak. Female cat- 

 kins short, abrupt, a little drooping 47. Bladder Sedge. 



