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obovate, densely hairy, 2" long, f '' wide, obscurely nerved, with a 

 prominent bifid beak, a little longer than the oblong-ovate, cus- 

 pidate white scale. 



Wet, grassy places. Common. -June. 



It is distinguished from the other species of this group by its 

 larger size and general pubescence. 



Staminate spike single, stalked, often fertile at the apex ; pistil- 

 late spikes 3-5, cylindrical, densely or loosely flowered on a 

 straight or flexuous rachis, all on filiform more or less drooping 

 peduncles; bracts sheathing, longer or shorter than the culm; 

 perigynia obtusely or sharply triangular ovate or fusiform with 

 a long tapering beak, slightly inflated. 



Pistillate spikes densely flowered 1 



Pistillate spikes loosely flowered 2 



1 Spikes clavate or cylindrical, green, perigynia sharply 



angled prasina. 



1 Spikes cylindrical, fulvous, perigynia obtusely angled. . . castanea. 



2 Perigynia short-stalked arctata. 



2 Perigynia sessile 3 



3 Perigynia tapering into a long beak debilis. 



3 Perigynia contracted into a rather short beak glabra. 



94. Carex prasina Wa/d. 



Stems 15'-30' high, slender, often ditfuse, slightly scabrous on 

 the acute angles; leaves shorter than the culm, rough at the sum- 

 mit and on the margins, 1^" wide or less ; staminate spike cylin- 

 drical or club-shaped, I'-l^' long, on a filiform peduncle Y-V in 

 length, mostl}' drooping, often with a few pistillate flowers at 

 the apex; pistillate spikes 3-4, cylindrical, ^'-1^' long, densely 

 flowered or loosely flowered at the base, on filiform noddling 

 stalks, the upper '^ or 3 approximate, the lowest remote on a 

 peduncle i^-^y in length ; bracts leafy, the lower ones usually 

 surpassing the culm, the upper 1 or 2 often slender, scarcely 

 exceeding the spike ; perigynia acutely triangular, few-nerved, 

 tapering each way from below the miildle, terminating above in 

 a short, smooth, minutely-notched or entire beak, exceeding the 

 oblong-ovate, acute or cuspidate white scale ; achenium 

 triangular-elliptical, apiculate. 



Moist or wet fields and woods. Common. May, June. 



