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Dry woods. Mass, to Penn. ; common. May. 1\-. Culm 6 12 inches 

 high, triangular, leafy near the base. Leaves as long as the stem, pale green 

 and somewhat glaucous. Resembles the preceding. Pale Sedge. 



94. C, Crawei Dew. : sterile spike single, oblong ; fertile 2 3, oblong- 

 cylindric. distant, erect, rather closely flowered, the lowest on a longish 

 peduncle ; perigynium ovoid-oblong, with a short beak, slightly nerved, 

 entire at the orifice, twice as long as the ovate scale. ( Torr. N. Y. M.) 



Banks of Black River, near Watertovvn, N. Y. Dr. Crawe. Culm 43 

 inches high, erect, leafy. Leaves smooth, as long as the culm, light green. 



Crawe's Sedge. 



95. C. planta&inea Lam. : sterile spike solitary, pedunculate ; fertile 

 spikes 3 4, arising from included or exserted peduncles ; the lower ones 

 with subulate bracts, loose-flowered ; perigynium oblong, triangular-ellip- 

 tic or cuneiform, acute at each end, recurved at the apex, longer than the 

 ovate cuspidate scale. C. Latifolia Schk. 



Shady woods. Mass. N. Y. and Penn. April, May. < 1\-. CulmS 20 inches 

 high, erect, with purplish-brown sheaths. Leaves radical, broad, strongly 3- 

 nerved. Plantain-like Sedge. 



96. C. Carey ana Torr.: sterile spike solitary; fertile spike 23, oblong, 

 few-flowered, loose, lower ones on exserted peduncles ; perigynium ovoid, 

 triangular, smooth, nerved, acuminate, tapering at base, entire at the 

 orifice, twice as long as the ovate mucronate scale. 



Shady woods. N. Y. and Ohio. May. %. Culm 1 2 feet high, erect, 

 leafy near the base. Leaves linear-lanceolate, strongly nerved, dark green. 

 Closely allied to the preceding. Carey's Sedge. 



97. C. eburnea Baott: sterile spike solitary; fertile spikes 2 3, erect, 

 3 6-flowered, ovoid, with white leafless sheaths and the upper higher than 

 the sterile spike; perigynium obovoid, triangular, short-rostrate, shining, 

 twice as long as the white ovate hyaline scale. C. alba Dew. 



Rocky banks. N. H. Ver. and N. Y. May. '2J.. Culms 412 inches high, 

 densely cespilose, erect, setaceous, naked. Leaves in a radical tuft, shorter than 

 the culm, setaceous. Bristly White Sedge. 



98. C. flexilis Pudge : sterile spike solitary, oblong, pedunculate ; fer- 

 tile spikes 2 4, oblong-cylindric, on nodding naked peduncles ; perigy- 

 nium ovoid, rostrate, bidentate, about as long as the ovate ciliolate scale. 

 C. blepharoptiora Gray. 



Moist shady places. N. Y. June. ^.Culm 1218 inches high, erect, 

 striate. Leaves narrow, short, pale green, and with the bracts ciliate. 



Fringed Sedge. 



99. C. debilis Mich. : sterile spike solitary, pedunculate ; fertile spikes 

 3 4, on long nodding peduncles, filiform, remote, loose-flowered ; peri- 

 gynium oblong, subtriangular, alternate, rostrate, bifid, twice as long as 

 the ovate-lanceolate scale. C. Jlexiwsa MM, 



Wet meadows. Can. to Geor. June. ^.Culm 1 2 feet high, weak and 

 slender, sometimes procumbent, leafy. Leaves narrow. Weak Sedge, 



100. C. arctaia Boott : sterile spike cylindric ; fertile spikes 3 4, re- 

 mote, on long nodding peduncles, slender, loose-flowered; perigynium 

 ovoid-elliptic, triangular, nerved, beaked, bifid at the orifice, rather longer 

 than the ovate membranaceous mucronate scale. C. sylvatica Dew, 



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