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CYPERACEAE (SEDGE FAMILY) 





face nerveless or only slightly nerved at the golden-yellow base. — Open prairieSj 

 Man. to Kan., and westw, July. Fig. 369. 



22, C. aenea Fernald. Culms smooth and wiry, but 



more or less Jlexuous at tip, 0.25-1.2 m. high; leaves 



much shorter, rather soft and flat, 2-4 mm. broad ; 



inflorescence loosely cylindric cr moniiiform, of 3-12 



obovoid mostly clavate-based broinnish or ferriKjinous 



spikes (0.8-2.5 cm. long, in luxuriant plaiiL.^ o ten 



j)eduncled or compound) ; peri- 



gynia loosely ascending, dark 



green or brown vjhen mature^ 



4-5 mm. long, 1 .0-2.7 mm. broad ; 



achene 1.3-1.7 mm. broad. — Open 



woods, dry banks, or rarely in low 



ground, Lab. to B. C, s. to Ct., 



•<J(,/ -'Its* 



370. C. aenea. 



Mich., etc. May-July. Fig. 370. 



371. C. adusta. 



23. C. adusta Boott. Culms stiffly erect, smooth, 



2-8 dm. high ; leaves usually shorter, 2-5 mm. broad ; 



inflorescence erect, dense and stiff, ovoid or cylindric, 



often subtended by a stiff promi- 

 nent bract, of 3-15 simple or com- 

 pound full and rounded hrovniish 



spikes (6-12 mm. long) ; perigynia 4-5 mm. long, 2-3 mm. 

 broad; achene 1.8-2.1 mm. broad. — Dry woods, gravelly 

 banks, etc., Nfd. to Mt. Desert L, Me., w. to Minn, and far 

 north w. June-Sept. Fig. 371. 



24. C. sychnocephala Carey. Culms smooth, 2-6 dm. 

 high ; leaves soft, ascending, 2-4 mm. wide ; bracts very 

 unequal ; spikes 4-10, subcylindric, 8-15 

 mm. long, forming a dense ovoid or ellipsoid 

 head ; perigynia lance-subulate, 5 mm. long, 

 barely 1 mm. wide, firm, slightly nerved 



„^„ ^ , ^ , or nerveless. — Meadows, ditches, and wet 



872. C. sychnocephala. ^^^^^^y ^^jj^ ^^ y. and Ont. to la., Sask., 



and B. C. July, Aug. Fig. 372. 



25. C. gyn6crates Wormsk. Culms 0.6-S dm. high, viostly 

 exceeding the setaceous leaves; spikes 0.5-2 cm. long, some 373. c. gynocrates. 

 staininate and linear, with oblong mostly blunt-tipped scales, 

 others staminate above, with one or more pistillate flowers below, others thick- 

 cylindric and strictly pistillate, with 6-12 rather plump subterete but thin-edged 



strongly 7ierved conic-beaked perigynia. (C. Bedowskiana 

 Bailey, not C. A. Mey.) — Swamps and bogs, Lab. to 

 Alaska, s. to N. B., Me., N. Y., w. Pa., Mich., and Col. 

 June-Aug. (?]urasia.) Fig. 373. 



26. C. exilis Dewey. Cidms rigid, usually much exceed- 

 ing the filiform, stiff leaves; spikes mostly solitary, 1-3 cm. 

 long, staminate, pistillate, or with the flowers variously situ- 

 ated; perigynia ovate-lanceolate, with serrulate thin mar- 

 gins, strongly convex on the outer, 

 flattish and feio-nerved or nerveless 

 on the inner face. — Bogs and mead- 

 ows near the coast, locally from Lab. to N. J. ; rarely 

 inland to Vt., Ont., N. Y., Mich., and Minn. May- Aug. 

 Fig. 374. 



27. C. stellulata Good. Caespito.se ; the culms rather 

 wiry, 1-4 dm. high ; leaves shorter than or equaling the 

 culms, 1-2.5 mm. wide ; inflorescence linfar-cylindric, 

 1-3 rm. long, of 2-6 subapproximate or sligiitly remote 



subglohose or subcylindric ?,-\2-fli>v;ered spikes; perigynia finally yellowish, 

 narrowly ovate, early ascending, later wide-spreading, faintly nerved or nerveless 



an. C. exilis. 



375. C. stellulata. 



