314 Monograph of North American Carices. 



ovato-lanceolatis, marginatis, nervosis, glabris, bicuspida- 



tis, glumis laneeolatis, acuminatis, longioribus. 

 C. scoparia, Willd. sp. pi. iv. p. 230. Schk. car. t. Xxx. f. 



175. (opt.) Purshf. i. p. 37. excl. syn. Muhl. gram. p. 



227. Dewey car. 1. c. viii. p. 94. Elliott sk. ii. p. 535. 

 C. leporina, Mich. fl. ii. 170. 



Culm 1 — 2 feet high, triquetrous, scabrous above, leafy only below, longer 

 than the leaves. Leaves long and narrow. Spikelets 5 — 8 (sometimes 

 10) ovate, when mature obtuse, approximate at the extremity of the 

 culm, which is usually a little nodding, the two lowest are furnished with 

 short deciduous bracts at the base. Glumes lanceolate, acuminate, 

 carinate, brownish, with a green midrib. Fruit tawny when mature, 

 ovate-lanceolate, with a long acumination, distinctly margined but not 

 winged, about 9 nerved. 



Hab. In wet meadows and swamps : common. Flowers in 



May. 

 Obs. Allied to C. straminea, but differs in its fruit, being 



much narrower and not winged. It is remarkable for the 



pale reddish brown appearance of its spikes when in fruit. 



It is very distinct from C. ovalis or C. leporina. 



34. Carex straminea, Willdenow. 



C. spiculis subquinis (4 — 7) subrotundis, approximatis, brevi- 

 bracteatis ; fructibus subrotundo-ovatis, rostratis, compres- 

 sis, lato-alatis, bidentatis, ciliato-serratis, gluma lanceolata 

 longioribus. 



C. straminea, WUld. sp. pi. iv. p. 242. Wahl. act. holm. 1803. 

 p. 145. Schk. car. t. Xxx. f. 147. Muhl. gram. p. 229. 

 Deivey car. 1. c. vii. p. 276. 



Culm about 8 — 12 inches or more in height, straight and erect, leafy, tri- 

 quetrous, slightly scabrous. Leaves linear, erect, shorter than the culm ; 

 inferior ones abbreviate. Spikelets usually about 5, sometimes 4 and 

 even 3, closely approximate at the summit of the culm, the base of each 

 furnished with a broad ovate hractea, which is brownish green, ribbed, 

 and in the lowest about the length of the spikelet. Glumes slightly mu- 

 cronate. Fruit very broad, ovate, abruptly acuminate, the margin 



