Fiend. ph. 9. CYPERACEiE. 32. CareX. 47 



Damp woods ; perennial ; May. 



CAilm 3-sided, sides flat, angles rough, 18 inches high; 

 leaves slender ; sheaths light green ; spike long, but inter- 

 rupted in the lower part and branched ; spikelets 6 or 8, 

 ovate when ripe, slightly squarose ; upper spikelets sessile, 

 close, nearly confluent; middle spikelets distant; lowest 

 spikelets 1 or 2, distant, often compound, or on a short 

 branch ; hractece slender, setaceous ; glumes acute, scariose. 



9. Carex vulpina. Fox carex. 



Spikelets aggregate in threes or fives, oblong, crowded, 

 male above; fruit oval, compressed, 3-sided, divergent, 

 apex 2- toothed; hractece setaceous; culm 3-sided, angles 

 very acute, sides concave ; leaves broad. 



Gramen cyperoides palustre majus spica compacta, Raii Syn. 423,spic.8. 

 Gramen palustre cyperoides, Ger. em. 21. 

 Giamen cyperoides palustre majus, Park. 1266. 

 Carex vulpina, Lin. S. P, 1382. 



Bogs and river sides ; perennial ; May to July. 



Root fibrous, matted; leaves broad, deep green, longer 

 than the culm; culm upright, 2 feet high, leafy at bottom, 

 thick near the spike, angles very rough ; spike obtuse ; 

 partial spikes compact, sessile ; spikelets sessile ; glumes 

 acute, brown, with the keel greenish. 



^. decomposita. Bractece awned ; panicle doubly branched, 

 y. aristata, Bractece awned ; panicle branched. 

 ^. acuta. Bractece acute ; panicle branched. 



10. Carex intermedia. Intermediate carex. 



Spikelets alternate, crowded, the lowest rather distant ; 

 tipper and lower spikelets female, middle spikelets male ; 

 fruit ovate, margined, apex 2-cut, angles ciliated and ser- 

 rate ; culm erect ; root creeping. 



Gramen cyperoides, q. Graraini cyperoidi ex monte Ballon simile, spica 

 totali e pluribus spicis composita Plukenet, Saii Si/n. 423, spic. 4. 

 Carex spicata, Pollich Pal. 878. 

 Carex disticba, Hudson Fl. Ang. 403. 

 Carex arenaria, Leers Fl. Herb, 195. 

 Carex intermedia, Goodenough L. 2'. 2, 154. 



Bogs and watery places ; perennial ; May, June. 



IRoot descending deep; leaves long; culm upright, 13 

 in. high, angles acute and rough ; spike blunt, thick above, 

 slightly compressed, never two-rowed ; spikelets many, 

 ovate, ferruginous ) glumes acute, brown with a pale rib. 



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