SEDGE FAMILY. 

 195. Carex cristatella Britton. Crested Sedffe. <Fia 



~arex crislata Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y 1-66 i8j 



N,.t Clairv. 1811. 



tfibuloides var. crislata Bailey Proc Am 

 Acad. 22: 148. 1886. 



Culms slender or rather stout, i#-2# tall, 

 tiff, erect, roughish above, longer than the leaves, 



eaves i%"-2" wide; lower bracts bristle-form, 

 {'-1%' long; heads 6-15, globose or subglobosc, 

 "-3" in diameter, all densely aggregated into an 

 oblong head i' long or more or the lower slightly 

 eparated; staminate flowers basal; perigynia lan- 

 solate or ovate lanceolate, spreading or ascending, 

 juarrose when mature, green or greenish brown, 

 i^//_ 2 // long, less than i" wide, narrowly wing- 



argined, several-nerved on both faces, tapering 

 ito a ciliate 2-toothed beak; scales lanceolate, 

 icarly white, much shorter than the perigynia; 

 tigmas 2. 



In meadows and thickets, Xew Brunswick to Mani- 

 oba, south to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois ami 

 Nebraska. Ascends to 2100 ft. in Virginia. July Svpt 



196. Carex adusta Boott. Browned Sedge. (Fig. 866.) 



Carex adusta I HOT Am J 



Culms stout, stiff, erect, entirely smooth, t 

 tall, growing in dense tuft*. Leave* abo 

 wide, long-pointed, shorter than the culm, bract* 

 subulate, tapering from a broad nerved ba*e. tb 

 lower i or 2 usually elongated, nearly erect, oftco 

 exceeding the spikes; spikes 5-12, snbgloboae or 

 short-oval, several-flowered; <lrurly clustered and 

 apparently confluent, or slightly separated, bright 



greenish brown; staminate flowers basal; 



broadly ovate, firm, very narrowly wing-i 



or wingless, rough above, plano-c- 



long, i"-iV" wide, tapering into a 2-lnothcd 



beak, several-nerved on the outer face, ocnr*les 



on the inner, ascending; scales lanceolate, acute or 



cuspidate, about equalling tbe periRynia; fttigmaa >. 



In dr>- soil. Nt-w Bnin-w 

 tury. Ni-w V>rk ;inl 





197. Carex foenea Willd. Hay Sedge. 



Carex foenea Willd. Enum. 957. 1809. 



Carex argyrantha Tuckerm.; Wood, Class-book, 753- '860. 



Rather light green, culm slender, smooth, erect or the 

 summit nodding, i-3^ tall. Leaves flat, soft, i"-2" 

 wide, shorter than the culm; bracts very short or wanting, 

 or the lowest occasionally manifest; spikes 4-10. subglo- 

 bose or short-oblong, narrowed at the base, 2)4 "-3" > n di- 

 ameter, silvery green, all separated on a sometimes zigzag 

 rachis or the upper contiguous; staminate flowers basal; 

 perigynia ovate, thin, about i^" long and nearly i" 

 wide, broadly wing-margined, strongly several-ner\ 

 both faces, tapering into a short rough 2-toothed beak; 

 scales hyaline, lanceolate, acuminate, about equalling the 

 perigynia; stigmas 2. 



In dry woods, often on rocks. Xew Brunswick to \\ 

 vania, Minnesota and British Columbia. June July. 



Carex foenea perplexa Bailey. Mem. Torr. Club, i: 27. 1889. 



