52 32. Carex, 9. CYPERACE^. Plend.ph 



Root creeping; culm 9 in. high; leaves slender, nearly 

 upright; male spike terminal, l^iceolate, upright; ^ewzaZe 

 spikes usually 2, upright, distant; ghime lanceolate, obtuse, 

 brown, edge thin and pale ; fruit inflated, longer than the 

 glume* 



23. Carex ccBspitosa, Tiift carex. 



Female spikes cylindrical, blunt, mostly 3, distant, the 

 lower with short footstalks ; fruit ovate, obtuse, pierced 

 at the top, edge not notched ; glume small, oblong, blunt, 

 edge white ; Iracfece setaceous, leaflike, eared at the base ; 

 culm very acutely angled, flaccid ; leaves' narrow, long? 

 flaccid. 



Gramen cyperoides q. G. caryophjileum angustissimis foliis, spicis ses« 

 silibus brevioribus erectis non compactis, Rail S^n. 418. polyst. 6. 



Carex csespifosa, Lin. S. P. 1388. 



Bogs and damp woods; perennial; May* 



Root creeping; culm upright, 12 in. high; leaves light 

 green, glaucous, sofl;, upright; 7nale spikes 1 or 2, upright^ 

 oblong, 3-sided ; fejnale 2 or 3, cj'lindrical ; glume black, 

 shorter than the fruit ; Iractece eared, ears large^ nearly 

 confluent ; friiit persistent. 



24;. Carex stricta. Straightleaf careX. 



Female spikes mostly 3, distant, cylindrical, attenuated, 



the lowest with a very short footstalk ; fruit ovate, acute^ 



apex pierced ; glume lanceolate, acute, small ; hractecp 



broad ; culm stiff, acutely angled ; leaves short, stiff. 



Gramen cyperoides foliis caryophylleis, spicis erectis sessJlibus e se- 

 minibus confertis compositis, Rati Syn. 418, polyst. 4. 

 Carex casspitosa, Hiids. Fl.Ang. 412. 

 Carex csespitosa /3, Lightf. Fl. Sc. 381. 

 Carex acuta a. Leers Herb. ^04. 

 Carex stricta, Goodenough L. 7,2, 196. 



Bogs ; perenial ; April. 



Root creeping; culm 2 feet high, upright; 7nale spikes 2^ 

 upright, 3-sided ; female 3, sessile, cylindrical, acute ;• 

 glume acute, shorter than the fruit ; bractecB leaflike, not 

 eared at the base; fruit acute, apex not notched. 



25. Carex acutat Sharp-pointed carex, 



Male spikes 2 or 3 ; female 4 or 5, with a short foot- 

 stalk, rather drooping, cylindrical, distant; /n/77 oblong, 

 beak very short, apex not notched but pierced ; glume 

 oblong, acute, as long as the fruit ; iractece long, leafy J 

 culm, acute-angled, rough, lax ; leaves lax. 



