336 CYPERACEAE. 



132. Carex pubescens Muhl. Pubescent Sedge. (.Fig. 802.) 



Carex pubescens Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 281. 1805. 



Pubescent all over, bright green, stoloniferous, 

 culms slender, usually reclining, i-2 long. 

 Leaves flat, soft, elongated, shorter or longer than 

 culm, 2 // ~3^ // wide; lower bracts \'-$ f long, oc- 

 casionally overtopping the spikes; staminate spike 

 sessile or nearly so, sometimes with pistillate 

 flowers at its base; pistillate spikes 2-4, oblong- 

 cylindric, rather loosely several-many-flowered, 

 erect, 4 // -io // long, 2 // -a^ // thick, the upper ses- 

 sile, the lower somewhat separated and short- 

 stalked; perigynia sharply 3-angled, obovoid, nar- 

 rowed to a stipe-like base, densely pubescent, and, 

 including the subulate straight minutely 2-toothed 

 beak, about 2" long; scales ovate, scarious-mar- 

 gined, rough-awned or cuspidate, about as long a& 

 the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In woods and thickets. Nova Scotia to North Dakota 

 New Jersey, Kentucky and Missouri. June-Aug. 



133. Carex Fraseri Andr. Fraser's Sedge. (Fig. 803.) 



Carex Fraseri Andr. Bot. Rep. pi. 639. 1811. 

 Carex Fraseriana Sims, Bot. Mag. pi. 1391. 1811. 



Glabrous, culms smooth, slender, reclining, ic/- 

 18' long. Basal leaves 8'-i6' long, i / -2 / wide, per- 

 fectly flat, firm, spreading, finely many-nerved with 

 no midvein, obtuse or subacute at the apex, their 

 margins usually finely crumpled in drying; culm 

 leaves reduced to clasping basal sheaths; spike soli- 

 tary, bractless, terminal, androgynous, j^'-i' long, 

 staminate above, pistillate below, the pistillate por- 

 tion dense, about )4' in diameter in fruit; perigynia 

 ovoid, pale green, diverging, thin and somewhat 

 swollen, faintly many nerved, fully 2" long and 

 rather more than i" in diameter, tipped with a 

 short nearly truncate beak; scales ovate, obtuse, 

 much shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In rich woods, southwestern Virginia, West Virginia, 

 eastern Tennessee, and North Carolina. Ascends to 

 4000 ft. in North Carolina. Locally abundant. Our 

 largest-leaved species. May-July. 



134. Carex picta Steud. Boott's Sedge. (Fig. 804.) 



Carex Booltiana Benth.; Boott, Bost. Journ. Nat. 



Hist. 5: 112. 1845. Not H. & A. 1841. 

 Carex picta Steud. Syn. PI. Cyp. 184. 1855. 



Dioecious, foliage glabrous, light green, culm 

 slender, smooth, erect or reclining, 6'-i2 / long, 

 usually much shorter than the leaves. Leaves 

 flat, i> // -3 // wide; spike solitary and terminal or 

 rarely with a small accessory one near its base, 

 erect, densely many-flowered, the staminate 

 about i' long, the pistillate cylindric but narrowed 

 at the base, i / -2^ / long, 3 // -4 // thick, subtended 

 by a short purple sheath; perigynia obovoid, 

 strongly many-nerved, pubescent at least toward 

 the obtuse summit, about i^" long, narrowed at 

 the base; scales purple, usually with green mar- 

 gins and midvein, shining, obovate, acute or cus- 

 pidate, longer and wider than the periygnia. 



In woods, Indiana to Alabama and Louisiana. 

 Local. Summer. 



