CYPERACEAE (SEDGE FAMILY) 



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Var. kansana Fernald. Very slender and pubescent ; each 

 pair of tubercles bearing a smaller intermediate one. Sandy soil, 

 Cherokee Co. , Kan. FIG. 333. 



4. S. ciliata Michx. Usually coarser, 

 0.5-1 m. high, glabrous, or slightly pubescent 

 below ; leaves firm, 1-2.5 mm. wide, becoming 



revolute ; fascicles 1 or 2, usually solitary, 0.7-2.5 cm. long ; 

 bracts ciliate ; scales smooth ; achene 2-3 mm. in diameter, 

 the disk bearing 3 broad shallow entire or barely notched 

 tubercles. Pine-barrens, etc., Va. and 

 Mo. to Fla. and Tex. July, Aug. 

 (W. I.) FIG. 334. 



5. S. Ellitittii Chapm. Coarser and 

 lower, 3-5 dm. high ; the culms and flat 



334. S. ciliata. leaves (2.5-6 mm. wide) pubescent ; 

 fascicles 2 or 3, usually subapproximate, 

 forming an interrupted head 1.5-3.5 cm. long; bracts 

 coarsely ciliate ; scales ciliate on the back ; achene with 

 3 low broad tubercles, each 2-lobed. Pine-barrens and 

 dry ground, Va. and Mo., south w. May- 

 July. (W. I.) FIG. 335. 



* * * Achene reticulated or wrinkled. 

 6. S. reticularis Michx. Culms slender, 



335. S. Elliottii. 



erect, smooth (1.5-7 dm. high); leaves linear (1.5-4 mm. wide), 

 smooth ; lateral fascicles 1-3, loose, remote, nearly erect, on 

 short often included peduncles; bracts glabrous; 

 achene globose, regularly reticulated and pitted, 

 the pits often vertically arranged, not hairy, resting 

 upon a double greenish conspicuously 3-lobed 

 disk, the inner appressed to and deciduous with the 

 achene. Damp sand and pine-barrens, local, e. 

 Mass, to Fla. ; n. Ind. Aug., Sept. FIG. 336. 

 336 S reticularis Var> P ub $ scens Britton. Culms weak, diffuse, 0.3-1 m. 

 high, slightly scabrous or smooth ; leaves linear (2-7 mm. wide), 

 smooth ; lateral fascicles loose, on more or less elongated and drooping filiform 

 peduncles ; achene irregularly pitted-reticulated or pitted-rugose with the ridges 

 often somewhat spirally arranged and more or less hairy. (S. Tor- 

 reyana Walp. ; N. trichopoda C.Wright.) Pine-barrens, etc., Ct. 

 and Ind. to Fla. and Tex. (W. I.) FIG. 337. 



7. S. verticillata Muhl. Smooth ; culms simple, slender (1-9 

 dm. high); leaves narrowly linear; fascicles 4-6, few-flowered, ses- 

 sile in an interrupted spike; achene globose, somewhat triangular 

 at base, rough-wrinkled with short elevated ridges ; disk obsolete. 

 Pine-barrens, damp sand, and wet rocks, Mass, to Ont., Minn., and 

 southw. July-Sept. (W. I.) FIG. 338. 



17. KOBRESIA Willd. 



Spikelets unisexual and one-flowered, or with two flowers (one 

 338 S verti- P istillate i one staminate) in short spikes aggregated in elongate 



ciliata heads or panicles ; the pistillate flower consisting of a 'spathiform 

 glume (homologous with the perigynium of Carex) wrapping about 

 the base of the achene and subtended by the scale of the spikelet. Perennial 

 herbs of northern regions, resembling the first group ( Vigneae} of Carex, but 

 with the perigynium replaced by the open glume which has its margins connate 

 at base. (Named for von Kobres, a nobleman of Augsburg and patron of 

 botany in Willdenow's time.) 



1. K. elachycarpa Fernald. Densely tufted ; the wiry compressed culms 2-5.5 



