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acute, contiguous or separate, greenish or straw-colored, some- 

 times tawny ; perigynia orbicular-ovate or obovate, cuneate or 

 cordate at the base, nerved, broadly winged, with a short abrupt 

 beak, longer and broader than the lanceolate, acute or rough- 

 awned scale — (C. straminea Willd. var. alata Bailey.) 



Swales and wet places. Suffolk and Seneca counties. July. 



30. Carex mirabilis Dew. 



Stems 15'-36' high, erect, smooth; leaves about equaling the 

 culm, l^"-2" wide, rough-edged ; spike l|^'-2' in length, erect, 

 often flexuous; spikelets 4-11, globose, contiguous, or the 2 or 3 

 lower ones sometimes 2"-3" apart, ascending or widely spreading, 

 green becoming tawny or rusty when old ; bracts scale-like, or 

 the lowest usually short setaceous ; perigynia ovate-lanceolate, 

 lightly nerved on both sides, narrowly winged, gradually taper- 

 ing into a short or long rough-margined bifid beak, widely 

 diverging when mature; scale narrowly ovate, obtuse, much 

 shorter than the perigynium ; achenium oval, apiculate and 

 stipitate. 



Easily determined by its coarse, rigid aspect and squarrose 

 spikelets. Common in copses and fields. June. 



This is added to C. straminea as a variety in the last edition 

 of the Manual. 



31. Carex sychnocephala Carey, 



Stems 8' -16' high, erect, smooth; leaves 4' -9' in length, I'-l^" 

 wide; spikelets 4-5, densely aggregated in a head, 6"-9" long, 

 3"-5" wide, partly concealed by 3 leaf-like bracts 3' -6' in length ; 

 perigynia linear-lanceolate, 2^"-Z" long, pointed at the base, 

 nerved, the long slender beak sharply toothed, twice the length 

 of the blunt or mucronate scale. 



Low wet meadows and moist places. Very rare. June, July. 



Collected about fifty years ago in Herkimer and Jefferson 

 counties, but it does not appear to have been found in our State 

 recently. 



Staminate flowers situated above or below the pistillate or the 

 middle spikelets sometimes wholly sterile or wholly fertile. 



Spikelets oblong-lanceolate, perigynia linear-lanceolate. . bromoides. 



Spikelets 4-8, perigynia lanceolate siccata. 



Spikelets 10-15 or more, perigynia ovate-lanceolate Sartwellii. 



