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CYPERACEAE (SEDGE FAMILY) 



5. R. Torreyana Gray. Culm nearly terete, slender 

 involute-filiform ; cymes panicled, somewhat loose, the 

 ing brown" spikelets mostly pediceled; nchene 

 compressed, oblong-obovoid, longer than the 

 bristles, thrice the length of the broad com- 

 pressed-conical tubercle. Swamps and bogs, 

 East Washington, N. H. (C. F. Parker) ; 

 pine-barrens of N. J. to Ga. July-Oct. FIG. 

 317. 



6- R " inex P^ nsa (Michx.) Vahl. Culm 

 triangular, slender ; leaves narrowly linear, 

 ^"^ mm. wide, becoming involute ; spikeli-ts 

 spindle-shaped, mostly pediceled, in drooping 

 panicles; achene oblong, half the length of 

 the slender bristles, twice the length of the 

 81,. K. lorreyana. lr i angll iar-subulate tubercle. Low grounds, 

 July-Sept. FIG. 318. 



; leaves 

 ascend- 



Va. to Ga. 



* * Achene smooth and even. 



313. E. inexpansa. 



319. K. fusca. 



Bristles 6, long and conspicuous, upwardly denticulate. 



1. R. fusca (L. ) Ait. f. Loosely stoloniferous ; culm 2-6 

 dm. high ; leaves bristle-form, channeled; spikelets ovoid- 

 fusiform, few, clustered in 1-4 loose heads (chestnut-color) 

 overtopped by the slender bracts ; achene obo- 

 void, about $ the length of the bristles, nearly 

 equaling the triangular-sword-shaped acute 

 tubercle, which is rough-serrulate on the mar- 

 gins. Boggy places, Nfd. to Ont., s. to Del. 

 and Mich. July-Sept. (Eu.) FIG. 319. 

 8 R. gracilSnta Gray. Culms very slender, 3-8 dm. high ; 3i)(| B C ilenU. 

 leaves narrowly linear; spikelets ovoid, in 24 small clusters, 



the lateral long-peduncled ; achene ovoid, rather shorter than 

 the bristles, about the length of the flat-awl-shaped tubercle. 

 Low grounds, s. N. Y. and N. J. to Fla. Aug., Sept. (W. I., 

 S. A. ) FIG. 320. 



9. R. oligantha Gray. Culm and leaves filiform, 1.5-4 

 dm. high ; spikelets very few (1-4), ovoid-fusiform ; brixfl^s 

 plumose below the middle; achene obovoid-oblong, bearing a 

 conical tubercle its length. Del. to Fla. July, Aug. 



821. 1C. oligantha. FlG. 321. 



- - Bristles none, or 1-3 and minute ; spikelets pale, 1-Jlowered. 



10. R. pdllida M. A. Curtis. Culm (3-8 dm. high) acutely 

 triangular ; leaves and spikelets as in the next species, but only 

 a terminal dense cluster, which is less white or turns pale 

 reddish-tawny; achene obovoid-lenticular, tipped with a minute 

 depressed and apiculate tubercle ; the delicate bristles 4-5 times 

 shorter or obsolete. Bogs in pine-barrens, N. J. and N. C. 

 Aug., Sept. (W. I., S. A.) FIG. 322. 



3*2. R. pallida. 



+- +- - Bristles long, denticulate downward, or both tcays in no. 15. 



++ Spikelets white or whitish, becoming tawny with age, perfecting only a single 

 flower ; stamens usually 2 ; bristles 9-12, or even 20. 



11. R. alba (L.) Vahl. Culm slender (1.5-6 dm. hich), triangular above; 

 leaves narrowly linear or almost bristle-form ; spikelets lanceolate, densely 

 crowded in a head-like terminal corymb (0.5-1.5 cm. broad) and usually one or 

 two lateral ones ; achene oblong-obovate with a narrowed base, scarcely longer 

 than the flattened-awl-shaped tubercle, shorter than the bristles. Bogs, Nfd 



