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Wet meadows Not common. June. Oneida co-inty. 



The drooping of the lower spikes depends on the splitting of 

 the long sheaths which, for a time at least, include their short 

 peduncles. This species is conspicuously marked by its short, 

 thick, mostly erect spikes and large turgid perigynia. 



Staminate spike club-shaped, long-ped uncled; fertile spikes 

 2-4, subapproximate or mostly remote, erect ; bracts shorter than 

 the culm; perigynia oblong, ovate or obovate, b3akless except 

 in 60. 



Upper spikes appproximate or nearly so i 



Upper spikes not approximate , 2 



1 Perigynia oblong, lightly nerved or nerveless livida. 



1 Perigynia with impressed nerve.s conoidea. 



2 Sheaths dilated vaginata. 



3 



2 Sheaths not dilated 



3 Leaves and bracts 1" wide, shorter than the culm tetanica. 



3 Leaves and bracts 1"-1|" wide, nearly equaling the culm . Crawei. 



59. Carex Crawei Deio. 

 Stoloniferous; stems 6-12' high, slender, erect or diffuse, 



smooth ; leaves short, sometimes equaling the culm, 1"-1|^" wide 

 smooth, rough-margined ; staminate spike clavate |'-1' in leuo-th 

 on a stiff, erect stalk l'-2' long, sometimes with 1 or more short 

 additional ones at or near its base, and sometimes with a few fer- 

 tile flowers at the apex; pistillate spikes 2-4, cylindrical, densely 

 flowered, 6"-9" long, distant or remote, sometimes the lowest sub- 

 radical on a short exserted stalk ; bracts leafy, sheathing, about 

 equaling the culm; perigynia ovate, lightly nerved, slightly 

 turgid, roughish, tapering to a small entire point, longer than 

 the ovate, cuspidate scale. 



Limestone soil. Rare. June, July. Genesee, Herkimer and 

 Jefferson counties. 



Distinguished by its low stature, creeping root-stock, and 

 densely flowered distant dull brown nearly sessile spikes. 



60. Carex livida WillJ. 



Stems 6'-18' high, slender, erect, smooth ; leaves mostly shorter 

 than the culm, tV"-1" wide, flat or involute, stiff, rough margined; 

 staminate spike cylindrical, acute, ^'-1' in length, on a stiff stalk 

 i'-l' long ; pistillate spikes 1-2, contiguous, rarely a third sub- 



