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above into a short, slender, bidentate beak, mostly covered by 

 the ovate acute or ])ointed whitish scale. 



Damp soil in shaded hilly places. Rare. Eensselacr county. 

 June. 



The distant lowest pistillate spike with its long slender green 

 bract and the very narrow short-peduncled staminate spike are 

 noticeable features of this species. 



90. Carex Peckii Howe. 



Strongly stoloniferous ; stems 3'-18' high, slender, erect or 

 spreading, smooth, purplish and lightly fibrillose at base ; leaves 

 mostly much shorter than the culm, l"-li" wide, open and flat, 

 soft, erect or spreading, rough-margined, bright green ; staminate 

 spike linear, ]^"-3" long, sessile, often invisible, scales brown, 

 white-margined ; pistillate spikes 2-3, ovoid, sessile, 2-8 closely 

 flowered, the upper two crowded, usually concealing the stamin- 

 ate spike, each with a green setaceous or shortawned, divergent 

 bract mostly not longer than the spike, the lowest 14-"-2" distant, 

 subtended by a green divergent bract about twice the length of 

 the spike ; perigynia triangular-elliptical, 1 J"-2" long, f " broad, 

 hairy, with an evenly tapering base and a short bidentate beak, 

 longer than the ovate acute or cuspidate whitish or brownish 

 scale ; achenium exactly elliptical, \" wide, substipitate, the style 

 deciduous at its base. 



Dry soil in woods and open places. May, June. Albany, 

 Essex, Jefferson, Cayuga and Yates counties. 



This is C. Emmonsii Dew. var. elliptica Boott. 



9 1 . Carex deflexa Hornem. 



Densely tufted ; stems 2' -6' high, capillary, curved, diffuse, 

 smooth ; basal bracts acute or cuspidate fibrillose, dull brown or 

 purple; leaves shorter or longer than the culm, ^" -1" wide, smooth, 

 open and flat ; staminate spike small and inconspicuous ; pistillate 

 spikes 1-3, usually 2, contiguous, 2-6 flowered, 1"-11" in length 

 and thickness, green or brownish, the lowest slightly peduncled 

 with a green filiform bract 2"-4:" long ; radical spikes occasional ; 

 perigynia pyriform, tri-costate, thinly pubescent, contracted 

 above into a short, flat, slightly curved or oblique beak, a little 

 exceeding the ovate acute or acutish, green and purple glume. 



