PL end. ph. 9. CYPERACE^. 32. Carex. 4..Q 



14. Carex divisa. Divided car ex. 

 Spikelets mostly 6, ovate, upper Inale interrupted ; fruit 



ovate, adpressed, apex 2-toothed, compressed; hractece leaf- 

 like erect, at the very bottom of the spike ; root creeping. 



Giamen cyperoidesex monte Ballon, spica divulsa, iZaH'S^/n, 423, spic. 3. 

 Carex divisa, Hudson FL Angl.AOb. 



Bogs and near the sea ; perennial ; May, June. 



Root thick, twisted ; cidm upright, weak, 2 feet high ; 

 leaves slender, upright, light green ; spike ovate, branched, 

 compressed ; spikelets crowded irregularly ; hractece leaflike, 

 longer than the spike ; glumes brov/n, mucronated, with a 

 pale edge and keel. 



&. cArta. Bractece shorter than the spike* 



15. Carex ovalis. Oval carex. 

 Spikelets mostly 6j roundish^ elliptical, rather close | 



lower malej solitary ijruit ovate, margined, margin ciliated, 

 serrated, apex with two short teeth ; glumes lanceolate as 

 long as the fruit ; cidni fistulous. 



Gramen cypet-oides spica e pluribus spicis brevibus mollibus composltaj 

 Maii Syn. 422^ spic. 2. 



Carex leporina, Hudson FL Angl. 404. 

 Carex ovalis, Gooderiougk L. T. 2, 148. 



Bogs; perennial; June. 



Culm upright, 2 feet high, 3-sided, leafy at the base ; 

 leaves deep green, flatj as long as the culm ; spikelets 4? to 6, 

 elliptical, reddish green ; hractece leaflike, as long as the 

 spike, falling off; glume acutej reddish j keel green. 



16. Carex elongata. Longspike carex. 

 Spikelets 6 to 12, a,lternate^ approximate, cylindrical^ 



lower male> single; ^n^zV ovate, pointed, nicked, ribbed, 

 patulous ; glumes ovate3 obtuse, much shorter than the 

 fruit. 



Gramen cyperoides angiistlfoliUm r.picis lohgis erectis, C. Baiildn Pi' 

 nax 6. 



Carex elongata, Lin, S. P. 1383. 

 Carex canescens, PoUich Pal.88\, 

 Carex multicaulis, Ehr. Gram. 88. 

 Carex multiceps, Etr.de Flora, 78. 



Marshy places ; perennial ; June. 



Roots in tufts; culm 2 feet high, naked abovcj apeX 

 drooping ; leaves pale green, upright ; spike hardly inter-^ 

 rupted; spikelets 6 to 12, cylindrical, when ripe squarose, 

 crowded above, remote below; hractece glumaceous, rib 

 ending in a bristle ; glumes brown red ; rib green, 



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