^l. end. ph. 9. CYPERACEiE. 32. Carex. 45 



^. elongata. Spikes longer than usual. 



Gramen cyperoides minus ranunculi capitulo longiore, Eaii Syn, 425 

 spic. 16. 



y, androgyna. Spikes androgynous, female flowers few, 

 at the base. 



2. Carex Davalliana. DavalVs Carex. 

 Spikes sublinear, dioicous ; fruit attenuated, recurved, 



ribbed, upper edge rough ; apex not notched ; adm acute- 

 angled, serrulate ; leaves very short ; root tufted. 



Carex Davalliana, Goodenough L, T. 5, 266, 



Carex dioica, Willd. Cat. B. 16, 



Carex scabra, Hoppe. 



Carex dioica Davalliana, Wakl J. H, 1803, 138. 



Bogs; perennial; June, July. 



Root fibrous ; culm 3-sided, 8 in. high, rough ; leaves 

 shorter than the culm ; spikes linear, very slender, acute, 

 erect ; female spikes few, short ; glumes brown. 



3. Carex pulicaris. Flea carex. 



Spikes above male ; fruit oblong, roundish, smooth, re- 

 flexed, divaricated, sharp at both ends; glumes oblono-, 

 persistent, longer than the fruit; root fibrous. 



Gramen cyperoides minimum, seminibus deorsum reflexis puliciformi- 

 bus. Rait Syn. 424, spic. 13. 



Carex pulicaris, Lin. S. P. 1380. 

 Carex psylliphora, Lin. Svppl.ilS. 

 Fleagrass. 



Muddy bogs ; perennial ; June. 



Culm a foot high, smooth, slender; leaves setaceous, 

 smooth ; spikes linear, erect ; glumes brownish grey ; friiit 

 brown, very shining, not notched at the tip. 



b. Carices with a compound, androgynous spike. 



4. Carex simpliciuscula. Plain carex. 

 Spike crowded, clubshape ; fruit oblong, depressed, beak 



short, mouth not notched ; leaves very slender, convolute. 



Carex simpliciuscula, JVahlenberg, jdct. Holm. 1803, 141. 



Westmoreland mountains ; sent to him by Mr. Turner. 



5. Carex incurva. Bent carex. 

 Spikes roundish, ovate, csipitate; fruit ovate, semiglo- 



bose, beaked, mouth very slightly notched ; glumes ovate, 

 acute, rather mucronate; culm roundish, smooth, slightly 

 bent; leaves setaceous, grtoowed ; rooi creeping. 



