68 as. Trasus. 9. CYPERACEiE. Vl.end.ph 



Gramen cyperoides, foliis caryophylleis, spicis oblongis e peciculis 

 loagioribus peiidulis, Rail Syn. 41S, poiyst.5. 

 Cares limosa ,8, Leers Herb. 201. 

 Carex glauca. Scop. Cam. 2, 223. 

 Carex recurva, Huds. Fl, Ang. 413. 



Moist grass lands and woods ; perennial ; May, June. 



Root creeping; herb sea-green; culm 1 foot high, sides 

 convex ; leaves upright, shorter than the culm, broadish ; 

 IractecB upright, equalling the culm in height ; male spike 

 linear, lanceolate; female spikes cylindrical; glumes ovate, 

 blackish, edge whitish, rib yellowish ; fruit bluntly S-sided, 

 almost ribless, brownish green, turning black, 



^. Micheliana. Male spikes many ; fruit smooth, 

 Carex Micheliana, Smith L. T. 5, 270. 



y. ramosa. Spikes branched. 



S2. Trasus rarijlorus. Few/lowered sedge. 



Female spike loose, fewflowered; glumes ovate, acute; 

 fruit obovate, obtusely S-sided ; root creeping. 



Carex rariflora, Eng. Bot. 35,2516. 



Carex limosa rariflora, Wahlen. Act. Holm, 1803, 163. 



Alpine mountains ; perennial ; July. 

 Culm a foot high ; glumes black. 



33. Trasus chlorostachyos. Greenspike sedge.. 



Female spikes 4, cylindrical, manyflowered ; glume as 



long as the ixvati fruit ovate, lanceolate, furrowed, 2-cusped, 



spreading ; mot fibrous. 



Gramen cyperoides, spica pendula breviore, Rail Syn. 419, polyst. 12. 



Pseudo-cyperus, Ger. em. 29. 



Cyperus sen Pseudo-cyperus spica brevi pendula, Park. 1266. 



Carex Pseudo-cyperus, Lin. S. P. 1387. 



Bastard cyperus. 



Moist woods and river-banks ; perennial ; June. 



Culm a foot high, upright, leafy, acute-angled; leaves 

 pale green, sheathing; peduncles very long; spikes cylin- 

 drical, manyflowered, compact ; male spikes upright, red- 

 dish ; female spikes drooping, greenish ; glumes awned ; 

 awns very long, very rough. 



^. Lipedunculalus. Pedu7ieks in pairs from the same 

 sheath. 



