SEDGK FAMILY. 



Carex tenuis erectior Hnttun 

 Carex debtlts var. strict tor Bailey, Mem. Torr Club i- u 1880. V< f 



Mostly taller and stouter than the type, and erect; IcVvc, .,.',, 

 or but slightly spreading; pengyma 2*" long, one third Icmgrr than thr ^IrJTwSL 



88. Carex oblita Steud. Dark-green Sedge. ( Fig. 75 x. , 



Carex oblita Steud. Syn. PI. Cyp. 231. 1855. 



Carex glabra Boott, 111. 93. 1860. ^ ' 



Carex r?nusla var. minor Boeckl. Linnaea, 41: 255. i 



Glabrous, culms slender, erect or reclining, sharply 

 3-angled, smooth or very nearly so, i-3 long. 

 Leaves 2"-2 l / 2 " wide, shorter than the culm, slightly 

 rough; lower bract similar to the culm-leaves but nar- 

 rower, sometimes overtopping the spikes; staminate 

 spike solitary, filiform-stalked, sometimes partially 

 pistillate; pistillate spikes 3-5, narrowly cylindric, i ' 



long, about 2%" thick, loosely flowered, slender- 

 stalked, the upper mostly close together and spreading 

 or ascending, the lower distant, drooping; pi-ri^ 

 dark green, 3-angled, glabrous, 3" long, less than i" 

 thick, ascending, rather strongly many-nerved, taper- 

 ing into a short 2-toothed beak; scales obtuse, about \/ V\1R/ Eft 3* 

 one-third the length of the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In bogs, central New York and Pennsylvania to NY\v Jerst-y and North Carolina. Jun. 



89. Carex grisea Wahl. Gray Sedge. (Fi^ 



Ca, L llaml 



24: 154- 1803. 



Glabrous, culms rather stoat, erect or soehat 

 spreading, smooth or nearly so throughout. I* 

 long. Leaves light green and sometimes 

 glaucous, flat, 2"-3'-j" wide, the hi 



or equalling the culm; bracts similar to the leave*. 

 spreading, much overtopping the spikes; i 

 spikes solitary, sessile; pistillate spikes 3-5. 

 oblong, sevcral-many-flowered, ! 

 2" thick, the upper usually sessile and clow to- 

 gether, the lower slender-stalked and distant: pen- 

 gynia oblong, 2' 2 " long, learly terete or 



irregularly angled by overlapping, suhacnte bt 

 beakless, finely many-striate, longer or the lover 

 equalling or shorter than the ovate scariom BJMT 

 gined cuspidate or awned scales; stigmas j. 



In woods and thicket*. Maine to Ontario ami Mimar 

 sola, south to North Carolina and Kana* M* Ju! 



90. Carex amphibola Steud. Narrow -k-avt-d Sedge. 



1855. 

 1858. 



Carex amphibola Steud. Syn. PI. Cyp. 234. 



Carex grisea var. angustifolia Boott, 111. 34. 1858. 



Carex grisea var. (?) rigida Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, i: 



56. 1889. 



Glabrous, culms very slender, slightly scabrous 

 above, erect, or spreading, i-2 long. Leaves i"- 

 2" wide, mostly erect and somewhat rigid, thefcasal 

 shorter than the culm; bracts similar to the upper 

 leaves, erect, not over i" wide, overtopping the 

 spikes; staminate spike solitary, short; pistillate 

 spikes 2-4, erect, y 2 '-i f long, less than 2" thick, 

 loosely several-flowered, the upper sessile, the lower 

 on long filiform stalks; perigynia oblong or obovoid, 

 firm, pointed but beakless, 3-angled, many-striate, 

 more or less 2-ranked, 2." long, about i" thick, 

 longer than or the lower equalling the ovate scarious- 

 margined awned spreading scales; stigmas 3. 



In dry soil, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to Ohio and 

 Missouri, south to Florida and Texas. April-June. 





