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The broad glaucous leaves and drooping spikes on long fili- 

 form peduncles characterize this species. 



There is a late form (Forma serotina) in which the new growth 

 develops fruit soon after the old fruit has matured. In it the 

 starainate spike is inconspicuous or abortive, and the pistillate 

 spikes are erect and on peduncles much shorter than usual. 



Staminate spikes clavate ; pistillate 2-5, erect, mostly on in- 

 cluded stalks ; bracts about the length of their long sheaths or 

 obsolete ; perigynia acutely angled, finely nerved (obscurely in 

 80) with a short recurved or straight beak ; leaves radical, prom- 

 inently 3-ribbed (narrow and 1-veined in 80). 



Leaves narrow, 1-veir.ed pedunculata. 



Leaves 3 ribbed, bracts conspicuous 1 



Bracts obsolete, sheaths purple plantaginea. 



1 Leaves 2"-5" broad, dark green Careyana. 



1 Leaves 3 "-12" broad, whitish-green platypbylla. 



77. Carex Careyana Torr. 



Stems 1°-^^ high, erect-spreading, smooth ; leaves rough be- 

 neath or smooth throughout, 2"-5" wide, shorter than the culm, 

 dark green ; staminate spike clavate, 5 "-10" in length, its stalk 

 ^'-1' long, usually with a scale-like or slender green bract, scales 

 purplish or brown ; pistillate spikes 2-3, loosely 2-S flowered, 

 the uppermost sessile at the base of the sterile, the others scat- 

 tered, sometimes the lowest remote on a partly included stalk 

 1-1^' long; bracts leafy, as long as their sheaths; perigynia 

 acutely triangular-ovate, 2"-2|^" long, closely nerved, with an 

 oblique or recurved beak, twice the length of the ovate, acute or 

 mucronate purple-brown scale. 



Woods and ravines. Rare. May. Cayuga, Genesee and 

 Jefferson counties. 



78. Carex platyphylla Carey. 

 Stems 8'-l5' high, slender, erect, at length widely spreading, 

 smooth ; leaves shorter than the culm or rarely exceeding it, 

 ^'-1' broad, smooth, glaucous or whitish green; staminate spike 

 4"-lo" long, its peduncle I'-l' in length or rarely subsessile, 

 usually with a scale-like or bristle-shaped bract ; pistillate spikes 

 2-3, 2-10 loosely flowered, scattered, all erect on included stalks : 

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