EEPOBT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 161 



"Wet swampy places. Rare. June. Cayuga, Seneca and 

 Jefferson counties. 



This is distinguished from its congeners by the long-pedunoled 

 spikes and obovoid, nerved perigynia. 



Var. Woodii Bailey is a lax form growing in deep shade and 

 having longer spreading leaves and shorter fewer flowered 

 fertile spikes. 



^ 63. C'arex conoidea Schk. 



Stems 12-20' high, stiff, rough above ; leaves mostly shorter 

 than the culm, 1" wide, rough margined ; staminate spike ^'-1' 

 long, clavate, long or short-peduncled, erect, light brown ; pistil- 

 late spikes 1-3, 6"-9" long, subdensely flowered, the upper 2 

 approximate or distant, short stalked or sessile, the lowest 

 remote on a spreading or erect peduncle ^-'-l^' long ; bracts 

 f oliaceous, usually shorter than the culm ; perigynia oblong-conic 

 with impressed nerves, and a short straight or curved entire 

 point, about the length of the ovate roughawned scale, the 

 latter more or less divergent at maturity ; achenium obovate, 

 apiculate. 



Moist meadows and grassy places. Common. June. 



This is easily recognized by the shape and nerving of the 

 perigynia. 



Fertile spikes 2-6, erect on exserted stalks or the uppermost 

 sessile, approximate or the lower distant; bracts leaf-like, 

 exceeding the culm; perigynia oblong or pyriform, obtuse, 

 nerved (obscurely in 6-1 and 65). 



Perigynia obscurely nerved 1 



Perigynia distinctly nerved 2 



1 Perigynia oblong pallescens. 



1 Perigynia pyriform aurea. 



2 Perigynia oblong-ovate, \\" long glaucodea. 



2 Perigynia oblong, 2" long grisea. 



64. Carex pallescens L. 

 Stems 6-24:' bigh, slender, mostly erect, hispid on the angles 

 near the spikes, smooth below; leaves mostly shorter than the 

 culm, 1"-!^" wide, rough-margined, 'slightly pubescent on the 

 sheaths ; staminate spike often clavate, 4"-S'' long, short-stalked ; 

 pistillate spikes 2-4, oblong, densely flowered, 3'-6" long, con- 

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