514 OYPERACE^E. (SEDGE FAMILY.) 



pressed leaves ; spikes aggregated into an ovoid head ; perigynia ovate, 9. little 

 longer than the scale. Cold peafr-bogs, New York to Wisconsin, and north- 

 ward. (Eu.) 



28. C. tenella, Schk. Spikes 2-4, very small, remote, with commonly 2 

 fertile flowers; perigynia ovate, twice as long as the scale. (C. loliacea, Schk. 

 supp., not of L. C. disperma, Dew. C. gracilis, ed. 1, not of Ehrh.) Cold 

 swamps, New England to Penn., Wisconsin, and northward. A slender spe- 

 cies, 6'- 12' high, with long grassy leaves, growing in tufts. (Eu.) 



3. Spikes pistillate above, staminate at the base. 



# Spikes roundish-ovoid, rather small, more or less distant on the zigzag axis (closely 

 aggregated in No. 30) : perigynia plano-convex, smooth, pale green, becoming 

 whitish or silvej-y : scales white and membranaceous ; the bracts resembling 

 them, or prolonged and bristle-shaped. CANESCENTES. 



H- Perigynia somewhat thickened and leathery, distinctly nerved, with a smooth or mi- 

 nutely serrulate short point, entire or slightly notched at the apex. 



29. C, trisperma, Dew. Spikes 2-3, very small, with about 3 fertile 

 flowers, remote, the lowest with a long bract ; perigynia oblong, with numerous 

 slender nerves, longer than the scale. Cold swamps and woods, especially on 

 mountains, New England to Pennsylvania, Michigan, and northward. Re- 

 sembling the last, but with larger spikes and fruit, and weak spreading culms, 

 l-2long. 



30. C. teillliflora, Wahl. Spikes 3, few-flowered, closely approximated; 

 perigynia ovate-oblong, about the length of the broadly ovate scale. Cold swamps, 

 N. New England to Wisconsin, and northward. (Eu.) 



31. C. canescens, L. (in part). Pale or glaucous; spikes 5-7 (about 

 12 - 20-flowered) , the 2-3 upper approximated, the rest all distinct and the lower- 

 most remote ; perigynia ovate, about the length of the pointed scale. (C. curta, 

 Good. C. Richardi, Michx.) Marshes and wet meadows ; common, especially 

 northward. (Eu.) 



' Var. vitilis is a more slender and weak form, not glaucous, with smaller 

 and roundish 6 - 1 5-flowered spikes, the more pointed perigynia spreading (and 

 often tawny) at maturity: perhaps a good species. (Var. alpicola and var, 

 sphserostachya, ed. 1. C. tenella, Ehrh. C. Persoonii, Sieber. C. vitilis, Fries. % 

 C. Gebhardi, Hoppe. C. sphaerostachya and C. Bucklcyi, Dew.) On moun- 

 tains, and high northward. (Eu.) 



- - Perigynia thickened only at the base, obscurely nerved on the outer side, tapering 

 into a rough 2-toothed beak. 



32. C Deweyana, Schw. Spikes about 4 ; the 2 uppermost approxi- 

 mate, the others listinct, the lowest long-bracted ; perigynia oblong-lanceolate, 

 rather longer than the sharply pointed or awned scale. Copses, New England 

 to Wisconsin, and northward. 



* * Spikes ovoid or obovoid. more or less clustered ; perigynia concave-convex, com- 

 vressed, margined or winged, nerved, with a rough 2-toothed beak, often tawny 

 at maturity : scales tawny or white, awnless : bracts bristle-shaped, usually 

 falling before the maturity of the spikes (in No. 34 persistent, very long and 

 lealike.) 



