KEPOK? OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1S5 



an oblique, entire or slightly notched orifice, longer than the 

 ovate, obtuse, dark purple scale. 



"Western counties." Dr. Torrey in the N. Y. State Flora. 

 It does not appear to have boen collected in the State recently. 



104. Carex striata -Me. 



Stoloniferous ; stems 15'--3o' high, stiff and erect, acutely 

 angled, rough near the summit; basal bracts purple, fibrillose; 

 leaves shorter or longer than the culm, l"--2" wide, the upper sur- 

 face rough, involute when dr}'- ; starainate spikes 2--3, the terminal 

 one l'-3' long, short stalked or subsessile, the lowest with a seta- 

 ceous bract -I'-l' in length; pistillate spikes 1--2, distant or 

 remote, the highest sessile, the lowest short-peduncled, densely 

 or subdensely flowered, h"-li," long, erect; bracts leaf}', shorter 

 or longer than the culm, or the highest about equaling it ; peri- 

 gynia oblong-ovate or subglobose, prominently nerved, smooth or 

 roughish with a scattered pubescence, somewhat divergent, 

 abruptl}'' contracted into a short bifid beak with whitish teeth, 

 about twice the length of the ovate, obtuse or acute, thin scale. 



Wet places and boggy shores of ponds. Suffolk county. June. 



Yar. brevis Bailey. More slender, the leaves and bracts shorter 

 and narrower {I" wide), the fertile spikes narrower, the highest 

 sometimes sterile at the apex and the perigynia pubescent ; other- 

 wise like the type. 



105. Carex Houghtonii Torrey. 



Stoloniferous; stems 1° 2° high, stiff, erect, acutely angled, 

 rough at the summit; leaves shorter than the culm, 1"- "l" wide, 

 rough-margined ; starainate spikes 1-2, clavate, the terminal one 

 on a stiff peduncle -|^' -1' long, the lowest often with a setaceous 

 or bristleform bract as long as the spike or longer; pistillate 

 spikes 1-3, cylindrical or short oblong, subdensely flowered, 

 ^'-1' long, subdistant, the upper two sessile, the lowest on an 

 exserted stalk 3"-9" in length, all erect ; bracts leafy, sheathless, 

 or the lowest short-sheathed, equaling or exceeding the culm; 

 perigynia broadly ovate, prominently nerved, rough-pubescent, 

 abruptly contracted into a short, slender, sharply t(X")thed beak, 

 a little exceeding the ovate pointed or rouirh-awncd brown scale ; 

 achenium broadly obovate, minutely dotted. 

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