518 CYPKRACE^E. (SEDGE FAMILY.) 



slightly rough U the apex, with an abrupt very short notched orifice, broader and 

 niu-h shorter tliau the lanceolate pointed brown scale ; culm sharply tr 'angular, smooth 

 belotr, exceeding the rough sharp-pointed leaves. (C. acuta, var. ereeta, Dew. ?) 

 Wet meadows, Rhode Island (Uliuy), and far westward. Culm l-2 high, 

 with commonly 2 fertile spikes l'-lj' in length, appearing somewhat bristly 

 from the long- find spreading scale. Differs from the next chiefly in the rounder 

 perigynium and nearly smooth culm, and should perhaps be referred to it. 



46. C. Strict:!, Lam. (not of Good. ) Sterile spikes 1-3; ti\Q fertile 2 - 4, 

 cylindrical, slender, usually barren at the summit, sessile, or the lower on a short 

 stalk ; lower bract with rounded or oblong- brown auricles, seldom exceeding the 

 culm ; perigynia ovate-acuminate or elUptieal, nerveless or very obscurely few-nerved, 

 of en minutely rough on the short, entire, or slightly notched point, usually shorter and 

 broader than the narrow reddish-brown scale ; culm slander, sharply triangular, 

 rouyh, longer than the narrow and rigid rough and glaucous leaves. (C. acuta, 

 MultJ. <j~ Amer. a nth., not of L. C. Virginiana, Smith in /'*, (.}/</. C. angtis- 

 tata, Btxttl.) Var. STR^CTICR has shorter and more densely flowered fertile 

 spikes, and perigynia equalling or somewhat exceeding the scale. (C. stric- 

 tior, Dew.) Wet meadows and swamps; very common. Grows in large and 

 thick tufts, 2 -2 high. The scales of the fertile spikes are very variable; 

 the lower commonly acute, the upper narrower and obtuse. This species and 

 the last have been referred to C. acuta, L., which has not been found in North 

 America. 



47. C. aquatiliS, Wahl. Sterile spikes commonly 2 - 3 ; the fertile 3- 5, 

 club-sJtapcd, erect, densely Jlowered, sessile, or the lower on very short stalks ; bracts 

 hug, 1 - 2 of the lowest exceeding the culm : perigynia obovate-dliptiml, stalked, nerve- 

 less, with a very short entire point about the length of the lanceolate scale; culm 

 sharply triangular, rough towards the top, not much exceeding the pah'-grr.-n 

 glaucous leaves. Margins of lakes and rivers, New England to Wisconsin, and 

 northward. A rather robust species 2 -3 high; the thick fertile spikes l'-2' 

 long. (Ku.) 



48. C. ICBitiCllIariS, Michx. Sterile spike single and mostly fertile at tto 

 top ; the fertile 2-5, erect, cylindrical ('- 1' long), sessile, or the lower short- 

 peduncled, densely-flowered; bracts exceeding the culm; periyipiia vcate.-oval, 

 Kssile, more or less nenvd, abruptly short-pointed, the point entire, slightly ex- 

 ceeding the oblong and very obtuse scale ; culm (9' - 15' high) and leaves smooth 

 or nearly so. Lake Avalanche, N. New York (Toirey), Lake Superior, and 

 northward. 



* + Scales aimed. 



49. C. sallita, Wahl. Sterile spikes 2-3; Unfertile 2-4, cylindrical, 

 erect, often sterile at the apex, on more or less included stalks ; bracts long, with 

 rounded auricles, the two lowest commonly exceeding the culm ; perigi/nia ovate- 

 elliptical, with a minute entire point, nerveless, rather shorter than the ronghly- 

 avnid dn rL--bro<rn scale ; culm rough at the top, rather exceeding the leaves. 

 Coast of Massachusetts (Greene,, II 7 . Boott], an 1 far northward. (Eu.) 



50. C. lli;iriitillll, Vahl. Sterile and fertile s////v w cadi about 2 or 3 

 (!' long), spreading or drooping on slender peduncles; periymia Viarltj orbicular. 



