

SEDGE FAMILY. 

 10. Carex grandis Bailey. Large Sedge. ( Fig. 680.) 



Care.v gigantea Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. ii: 164. 1826 



Not Rudge, 1804. 

 Care* grandis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, i: 13. 1889. 



Glabrous, culms slender, erect or reclining, 2-3 

 high. Leaves rather dark green, elongated, 4"-6" 

 wide, the uppermost sometimes surpassing the 

 culm; bracts similar to the leaves, much overtop- 

 ping the culm; staminate spike sessile or pedun- 

 cled, sometimes bearing perigynia at its base; pis- 

 tillate spikes 3-5, all stalked or the upper sessik-, 

 cylindric, 1'-$' long, sometimes staminate at the 

 summit; perigynia much swollen at the base, and 

 about 2" in diameter, 5 // -6 // long, many-iu-rvi-d, 

 spreading at maturity, 3-4 times as long as the sca- 

 rious lanceolate acuminate or aristate scale, abruptly 

 contracted into a subulate 2-toothed beak 2-^ times 

 as long as the inflated portion; stigmas 3. 



In swamps, Delaware to Kentucky and Missouri, 

 south to Florida, Louisiana and Texas. June-Aug. 



ii. Carex oligosperma Michx. Few-seeded Sedge. (.Pig. <* 



CartxoNfotjtrmtiadu n n.r Am j 174 



Glabrous, culms wry sU-nder. erect, rather Miff, 

 i tf e -3 tall. Leaves about i ' . ,t exceed- 



ing the culm, involute when old; bracts ctraiUr. 

 overtopping the culm; staminate spike sulked, nar- 

 rowly linear; pistillate spikes I or 2, globose or ob- 

 long, 5 //F -io /r long, sfsMlc or the lower short- 

 stalked, few -several-flowered, the upper some- 

 times reduced to i or 2 perigynia and with a 

 staminate summit; perigynia ovoid, erect, in- 

 flated, strongly few-nerved, yellowish green, "- 

 2^" long, about 1'+" in diameter, tapering from 

 the middle into a minutely 2-toothed beak; scale* 

 acute or mucronate, shorter than the perigynia; 

 stigmas 3. 



In bogs, I^abrador to the Northwest Territory, i 

 to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania *nd Michigan. J 

 Sept. Ascend- 



12. Carex Raeana Bojtt. Rae's Sedge. (Fig. ' 



Care.r miliaris var. aurea Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 



i: 37. 1889. Not C. aurea Nutt. 1818. 

 Care.r pulla A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 602. 1867. N"t 



Gooden. 1797. 

 Care.r Raeana Boott; Richards. Arct. Exp. 2: 344. 



1851. 



Culm stouter than that of C. miliaris, very 

 rough above, i^-3 tall. Leaves i"-i#" wide, 

 flat, shorter than the culm, nodulose, somewhat 

 scabrous on the margins, the lower bracts narrower, 

 about equalling the culm; staminate spikes 1-4, 

 slender-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3, erect, cylin- 

 dric or oblong, 6 // -i2 // long, sessile or the lower 

 short -stalked ; perigynia oblong-elliptic, yellowish- 

 green, few-nerved, acute, narrowed into a rather 

 conspicuous 2-toothed beak; scales lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, yellowish or brown-margined, 

 slightly shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 2 or 3. 



On lake and river shores, northern Maine to I.ab- 

 rador. Summer. 



