EEPOET OF THE STATE BOTANIST. 63 



Wet swampy places. Kare. June. Cayuga, Seneca and 

 Jefferson counties. 



This is distinguished from its congeners by the long pedunuled 

 spikes and obovoid, nerved perigynia. 



Var. AVoodii B dley is a lax form growing in deep shade and 

 having longer spreading leaves and shorter fewer flowered 

 fertile spikes. 



63. Carex conoidea Schlc 



Stems 12-20' high, stiff, rough above ; leaves mostly shorter 

 than the culm, 1" wide, rough margined ; starainate spike i'-l' 

 long, clavate, long or short-peduncled, erect, light brown ; pistil- 

 late spikes 1-3, G"--9" long, subdensely flowered, the upper 2 

 approximate or distant, short stalked or sessile, the lowest 

 remote on a spreading or erect peduncle |-'-l|-' long ; bracts 

 foliaceous, usually shorter than the culm; perigynia oblong-conic 

 with impressed nerves, and a short straight or curved entire 

 point, about the length of the ovate rough-awned scale, the 

 latter more or less divergent at maturity ; achenium obovate, 

 apiculate. 



Moist meadows and grassy places. Common. June. 



This is easily recognized by the shape and nerving of the 

 ■perig\-nia. 



Fertile spikes 2-6, erect on exserted stalks or the uppermost 

 sessile, approximate or the lower distant; bracts leaf-like, 

 exceeding the culm ; perigynia oblong or pyriform, obtuse, 

 nerved (obscurely in 64 and 65). 



Perigynia obscurely nerved 1 



Perigynia distinctly nerved 2 



1 Perigynia oblong pallescens. 



1 Perigynia pyriform , anrea. 



2 Perigynia oblong-ovate, 1^" long glaucodea. 



2 Perigynia oblong, 2" long grisea. 



64. Carex pallescens L. 

 Stems 6-24' high, slender, mostly erect, hispid on the angles 

 near the spikes, smooth below; leaves mostly shorter than the 

 culm, 1"-1^" wide, rough-margined, slightly pubescent on the 

 sheaths ; staminate spike often clavate, 4'-8" long, short-stalked ; 

 pistillate spikes 2-4, oblong, densely flowered, ^'-& long, con- 



