

SEDGE FAMILY. 

 58. Carex cuspidata Wahl. Cuspidate Sedge. 



Care.f cuspidata Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (II.) 



24: 164. 1803. 

 Care.v salina var. cuspidata Wahl. Fl. Iapp. 246. 



1812. 



Glabrous, culms rather stout, smooth or rough 

 above, erect, i-2% tall. Basal leaves often 

 equalling the culm, \ l /t"-^" wide, smooth, their 

 sheaths more or less nodulose; leaves of the culm 

 shorter, similar to the lower bracts, which usually 

 overtop the spikes; staminate spikes 1-3, stalked; 

 pistillate spikes 2-4, narrowly cylindric, often stami- 

 nate at the summit, erect, the upper often sessile, 

 the lower stalked; perigynia elliptic, green, 2-4. 

 nerved, with a very short entire beak; scales 

 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. Summer. 



Carex torta Boott. Twisted Sedge. (Fig. 7. 



Carer torta Hoott; Tuckenn. Knura Mcth it lA*} 

 Glabrous, rather light green, calm very slender. 

 erect or reclining, smooth or slightly sohroua 

 above, i#-3 long. Leaves about 3" wide, the 

 basal shorter than or equalling the culm, those 

 of the culm very short; sheaths not fibriOoea; 

 lower bract commonly foliaceous; itsailnrti 

 spikes 1-3, stalked; pistillate spikes 3-5. all bat 

 the upper spreading or drooping, linear 

 long, about 2" in diamcu-r. sometimes com- 

 pound, often loosely flowered toward the base; 

 perigynia oblong or narrowly ovate, green, nerve- 

 less, narrowed and more or less twilled above, 

 \"-\W long; scales ovate, obtuse or mbacate. 

 purple-brown with a green midvein, shorter aad 

 mostly narrower than the perigynia; stigmas a. 



In marshes and wet thickets, Maine and VenWNrt 

 to North Carolina and Missouri Aacrnds to BOO ft. 



in Virginia. Jum July 



60. Carex prasina Wahl. Drooping Sedge. (Fig. 730.) 



Carex prasina Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. ( II. ) 24: 



161. 1803. 

 Care.v miliacea Muhl. ; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 290. 1805. 



Glabrous, rather light green, culm slender, smooth 

 or nearly so, reclining, sharply 3-angled, i-2^ 

 long. Leaves shorter than or equalling the culm, 

 flaccid, roughish, i>^ // -2X // wide; lower bract simi- 

 lar, commonly overtopping the spikes; staminate 

 spike solitary, short-stalked, often pistillate at the 

 summit; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, narrowly linear-cylin- 

 dric, drooping, the lower filiform-stalked, the upper 

 sometimes nearly sessile, i / -2^ / long, 2" in diam- 

 eter, rather loosely many-flowered; perigynia light 

 green, lanceolate, very obscurely nerved, tapering 

 into a slender minutely 2-toothed beak; scales ovate, 

 acute, acuminate, or short-awned, pale green, shorter 

 than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In meadows and moist thickets, Vermont and Ontario 

 to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, south in the Alleg" 

 nies to Georgia. Ascends to 4200 ft. in Virginia. May 

 July. 



