PLend.ph. 9. CYPERACE^. 33. Trasus. 65 



h. Bracte<2 leaJUke, sheathing; 



spikes drooping when ripe, sessile, lower footstalked^ exserted, 



male 1 ; fruit s?nooth. 



23. Trasiis pendulus. Drooping sedge. 

 Female spikes 3 or 5, cylindrical, very long; sheaths long; 



glumes ovate, as long as the fruit, awns very short ; fruii 

 elliptical, crowded ; beak short, 2-toothed ; leaves broad, 

 iftiftl 



Gramen cyperoides spiCa pendula longiora, Park. 1267 ; Raii Syn. 420, 

 polyst. 13. 



Carex maxima, Scop. Cam. 2, 229. 

 Carex agastachys, Lin. Suppl. 414. 

 Carex pendula, Huds. Fl. Ang. 411. 



Damp woods and hedges ; perennial ; May and June. 



Culm 6 feet high, firm, 3-sided ; leaves broad, dark green, 

 stiffs hard, glaucous beneath ; hractece drooping, lower very 

 long, sheaths as long as the footstalks ; spikes 5 to 7, droop- 

 ing, cylindrical, very compact, uppermost male, others fe- 

 male; glumes lanceolate, acuminated, brown, rib green; 

 fruil smooth. 



^. androgynus. Male spike with female flowrets at the 

 upper part. 



24. Trasus strigosus^ Harsh sedge. 

 Female spikes 3 or 4, threadlike, lax, distant; sheaths 



long; glume ovate, lanceolate ; yrz«^ longer than the glume, 

 oblong, lanceolate, ribbed, apex obliquely cut off; leaves 

 slender. 



Gramen cyperoides polystacbium majusculum latifolium, spicismultis 

 longis strigosis, Raii Syn.4\9, polyst. 11. 

 Carex leptostachys, Lin. Suppl. i\4. 

 Carex strigosa, Huds. Fl. Angl.4ll. 



Wood and hedges ; perennial ; April and May. 



Culm upright, 2 feet high, smooth, slender ; leaves broad, 

 light green, thin ; hractece long, sheaths nearly the length 

 of the footstalk; ligula membranous, brown, amplexicaul; 

 spikes 6 or 8, drooping, loose, uppermost male, others fe- 

 male; JruSt green. 



i. BradecB leqflike, sheathing ; spikes drooping, 

 Jhotstalked, all exserted; fruit smooth. 



25. Trasus sylvaticus. JVood sedge. 

 Female spikes 4, distant, long, threadlike ; hractece sheath- 

 ing, half as long as the footstalks; glume ovate, mem- 



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