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close together, short-oblong, 4-8 mm. long, 2.5—-4. mm. wide, 4-8- 
flowered, the perigynia appressed-ascending; bracts lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, white-hyaline with green midrib, acuminate 
or cuspidate, shorter than the subtended spike; scales oblong or 
ovate-oblong, acuminate to obtusish, white-hyaline with green 
midrib, rather wider but shorter than the perigynia; perigynia 
puberulent, spindle-shaped, 3.25 mm. long, the body oval, com- 
pressed-orbicular in cross-section, 1.5 mm. long, 0.75 mm. broad, 
tapering to the stipitate base 1 mm. long, and rather abruptly 
into the slender beak 0.75 mm. long, the orifice entire or nearly so, 
the body nerveless except for the prominent decurrent edges of the 
beak; achenes normally lenticular, closely fitting the perigynia, 
the face oblong-elliptic, 1.75-2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; stigmas two. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
GeorGiA: Rocky Comfort Creek, Louisville, Jefferson Co., 
Harper 2105, April 9, 1904 (N. Y.). 
FLoripA: Jacksonville, Curtiss 4128, April 3, 1893 (C), 4639, 
March 24, 1894 (C), 6127, March 31, 1898 (K. M.); Hibernia, 
Canby, March 1869 (C); “Florida,” Chapman (N. Y. and C); 
“Florida,” Keeler (C); Banks of Little River, Chapman (C); 
West Florida, Chapman, 1836 (C); Apalachicola, Biltmore 1783 
(N. Y.); “Florida,” Chapman, from. Dr. Lemann, 1847 (N. Y. 
ex herb. Boott). 
Louisiana: Jackson, Ingalls, February (C); Hale 707 (C). 
Mississippi: Ocean Springs, Earle, Feb. 1889, very young 
(N. Y.). 
Texas: Big Sandy, Bush 2877, April 7; 1902 (NEY) 
5. CAREX DEFLEXA Hornem. Plantelaere, ed. By 0S OSB: 1621 
Carex varia var. minor Boott, in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2: 223 (in 
part). 1840. 
Carex pilulifera var. deflexa Drej. Rev. Crit. Car. Bor. 54. 1841. 
“ Carex Novae-Angliae Schw.” Boott, Ill. Car. 2: 96 (in part). 1860. 
Carex pilulifera forma, Béckl. Linnaea 41: 216. 1877. 
Carex deflexa var. Deanei Bailey, Mem. Torrey Club 1: 42. 1889. 
Clumps small or medium-sized, stoloniferous, the rootstocks 
slender, horizontally creeping, branching; culms 3-10 cm. high, 
very slender, exceeded by the leaves, smooth, the fertile mostly 
phyllopodic. Fertile culms with several leaves with well-developed 
