CYPERACEAE. 



VOL. I. 



191. Carex recta Boott. Cuspidate Sedge. Fig. 1058. 



C. recta Boott, in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2 : 220. pi. 222. 

 1840. 



Glabrous, culms phyllopodic, from long rootstocks, 

 rather stout, smooth or rough above, erect, i-3 

 tall. Leaves often equalling the culm, i"-3" wide, 

 their margins revolute, smooth, their sheaths more 

 or less nodulose ; bracts similar, not spathe-like, 

 usually overtopping the spikes ; staminate spikes 1-3, 

 stalked ; pistillate spikes 2-4, approximate, narrowly 

 cylindric, often staminate at the summit, \'-2.\' 

 long, erect, the upper often sessile, the lower stalked ; 

 perigynia elliptic, coriaceous, green, nerveless or 

 2-4-nerved, with a very short entire beak; scales 

 dark-purple, brownish or chestnut with a green cen- 

 ter, lanceolate, pale, acuminate or abruptly contracted 

 into a serrate awn, much longer than the perigynia ; 

 stigmas 2. 



In marshes, Labrador to the coast of Massachusetts. 

 Also in Europe. Erroneously referred to C. cuspidata 

 Wahl. in our first edition. July-Aug. 



192. Carex cryptocarpa C. A. Meyer. Hidden- 

 fruited Sedge. Fig. 1059. 



Carex cryptocarpa C. A. Meyer, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. i : 

 226. pi. 14. 1831. 



Glabrous, stoloniferous, culm stout, erect, sharply 

 3-angled, rough above, ii-3 tall. Leaves smooth, i"- 

 4" wide, the basal shorter than or equalling the culm, 

 the upper ones and the lower bract shorter ; staminate 

 spikes 2-4, stalked; pistillate spikes 2-5, all filiform- 

 stalked and drooping, densely flowered, i'~3' long, 3"- 

 4i" in diameter; perigynia oblong or oval, puncticulate, 

 green, several-nerved, \\" long, tipped with a very 

 short entire beak ; scales purple-brown, ascending, lance- 

 olate, acute, acuminate or even cuspidate, from little to 

 2 or 3 times longer than the perigynia; stigmas 2. 



Arctic America from Greenland to Alaska, south along 

 the coast to Oregon and Washington. Europe and Asia. 

 Summer. 



193. Carex maritima Mueller. Seaside Sedge. Fig. 1060. 



C. maritima Mueller, Fl. Dan. 4: fasc. 12, 5. pi. 703. 

 I777- 



Glabrous, light green, culms aphyllopodic, rather 

 stout, erect, sharply 3-angled, smooth, or roughish 

 above, little fibrillose at base, i-2i tall, from stout 

 stoloniferous rootstocks. Leaves ii"-s" wide, 

 roughish on the margins and midvein, rarely over- 

 topping the culm, sterile culm-leaves longer ; lower 

 bracts exceeding culm ; staminate spikes 1-3, slender- 

 stalked ; pistillate spikes 2-4, ovoid- to linear-oblong, 

 often staminate at the summit, densely many- 

 flowered, not flexuous, i'~3' long, 4"-8" thick, droop- 

 ing or widely spreading on filiform stalks ; peri- 

 gynia oval or nearly orbicular, ascending, pale, 

 biconvex, not inflated, ii" long, few-nerved, tipped 

 with a very short and nearly or quite entire beak ; 

 scales ascending, green, lanceolate-subulate, ciliate- 

 scabrous, 2-8 times as long as the perigynia ; stig- 

 mas 2. 



In salt meadows. Newfoundland and Labrador to Mas- 

 sachusetts. Also in Europe. June-Aug. 



