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spreading or suberect, the others mostly ascending ; bracts 

 leafy, the lowest sheathing, longer or shorter than the culm; 

 perigynia ovate, nerved, densely hairy, abruptly contracted into 

 a short bidentate beak, about the length of the ovate cuspidate 

 brown spreading scale. 



Wet meadows, marshes and swales. Kot rare. June. 



This differs from the preceding in its open flat leaves, shorter 

 bracts and stalked fertile spikes. The carinate or involute leaves 

 of the former cause them to appear to be much more narrow 

 than those of this species, which is considered by some to be a 

 mere variety of C. filiformis. 



102, Car ex vest it a Wllld. 



fetoloniferous; stems l°--3° high, rigid, acutel}^ angled, rough 

 at the summit; basal bracts fibrillose ; leaves V-l^ broad, rough, 

 shorter than the culm ; staminate spikes 1--2, clavate, mostly 

 sessile, f --H' long ; pistillate spikes 2 -4, ovoid or short-oblong, 

 5"-9" in length, compactl}^ flowered, approximate or distant, 

 rarely remote, sessile, erect, frequently with a few staminate 

 flowers at the apex ; bracts leafy, as long as the spikes, or the 

 lowest 1^' long; perigynia ovate, nerved, densely hispid-pubes- 

 cent, contracted into a short beak, the white orifice erose or 

 slightly notched ; scale ovate, cuspidate, brown with a white 

 margin. 



"Wet or dry sandy places. Rather rare. Albanj^, Richmond 

 and Suffolk counties. 



It is credited by Dr. Torrey to the western counties of the 

 State, but if there, it must be very scarce. 



103. Carex polymorpha Muhl. 



Stems l°--2° high, stout, strict, acutel}'' angled, smooth ; leaves 

 l'--6' long or more, l"-3'' broad, smooth; staminate spikes 1-4, 

 the terminal short or long -ped uncled, clavate, ^'-1' long, fre- 

 quently with a few pistillate flo vers at the base ; pistillate spikes 

 1-2, usually cylindrical, densely flowered, occasionally sterile at 

 the apex, ^-1^ long, on exserted erect stalks ^'-V in length ; 

 bracts leafy, sheathing, mostly as long as the spike ; perigynia 

 oblong-ovate, nerved, conspicuously turgid, minutely papillose or 

 smooth, abruptly contracted into a slender purplish beak with 



