CYPERACE.E. (SEDGE FAMILY.) 601 



+* ** Stigmas 2 ; scales long-acute and ascending. 



38. C. salina, Wahl., var. CUSpidata, Wahl. Rather stout, l-2 

 high; culm rather sharp, smooth ; leaves narrow but flat; spikes 2-4, some- 

 what approximate, the lowest 1 or 2 very short-stalked, erect, short (!' or less) 

 and rather thick, the lower subtended by leaf-like bracts 3-4' long ; perigyn- 

 ium elliptic, somewhat granular, marked with 2 or 3 nerves or nerveless, the 

 minute beak entire ; scale brown-margined, produced into a lighter and rough 

 awn much exceeding the perigyuium. ( C. saliiia, Man. ) Salt marshes, Mass., 

 and along the coast northward ; rare iu the United States. (Eu.) Anomalous 

 forms, which appear to be hybrids, have been separated as 



C. STRATA X SALINA, Bailey. Spikes thinner and more scattered, more 

 inclined to be peduncled ; scales blunt or short-awned, little exceeding the 

 perigynium. Near Boston, Mass., W. Boott, Morong. 



*+ *+ -W- Stigmas 3. 



39. C. prasina, Wahl. Slender, somewhat flexuose, H- 2 high; culm 

 rather sharp, smooth ; leaves very narrow, soft and flat, rough; spikes 2 -3, 

 peduncled and spreading or drooping, somewhat approximate, green, 1-2' 

 long, narrow and looselv flowered ; perigyuium pale, narrowly triangular -ovate, 

 thin, nearly nerveless, produced into a short but slender entire or minutely 

 toothed beak ; scale very thin and acute, nearly colorless, shorter than the 

 perigynium. (C. miliacea, Maid.) Meadows and bogs, Vt. to Mich., and 

 southward ; infrequent. 



# 3. H- 4. Cryptocdrpce. 



40. C. maritima, O. F. Mueller. Mostly stout, 1 - 2| high ; culm sharp, 

 smooth or rough above ; spikes 2-6, scattered, all or all but the upper one 

 on very long weak stalks and pendulous, 1-3' long and thick and bushy, 

 usually staminate at top ; perigyuium nearly orbicular, pale, few-nerved or 

 nerveless, the beak very short and entire or nearly so ; scale produced into a 

 greenish rough awn 3-8 times as long as the perigyuium. Salt marshes of 

 the coast, Mass., Maine, and northward ; not common. Leaves smooth, broad 

 and flat. (Eu. ) 



41. C. crinita, Lam. Robust and mostly stout, 2-4 high; culm sharp 

 and rough or sometimes smooth ; leaves about 3" broad, flat, more or less 

 rough on the nerves and margins ; spikes 3-6, somewhat scattered, all variously 

 peduncled, mostly secund, curved and drooping (or in small forms rarely nearly 

 erect), 1 -4' long, narrowly and evenly cylindric, compact or aitenuate below, 

 often staminate at top ; perigynium ovate, thin and puncticulate, obscurely 

 nerved, the minute point entire; scale greenish-brown and rough-awned, 2-3 

 times as long as the perigynium. (C. gynandra, Schwein.) Swales; com- 

 mon. Var. MINOR, Boott. Much smaller in all its parts, 10-18' high ; leaves 

 narrow; spikes 3-4, )' long or less, less drooping; scales less prominent. 

 Maine to N. Y. ^ scarce. Somewhat resembles n. 39. 



C. CRINITA X TORTA, Bailey. More slender than C. crinita, the leaves nar- 

 rower; spikes nearly as slender as those of C. torta; scales blunt or simply 

 acute and little longer than the perigynium, or sometimes very short-awned. 

 Moist meadows near the Glen House, White Mts. (Brainerd). Might be 

 mistaken for drooping-spiked forms of n. 34. 



