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SEDGE FAMILY. 863 
long, foliaceous ; fruit densely crowded, ovoid, ventricose, a 1 
about twice as long as the la nee-linear awned scal 
eth. 
ked, 
- with short, minutely serrulate te 
TENTACULATE OR MANY-BEAKED CAREX. 
Whole plant biotite -green. Culm 12-18 inches high, triquetrous, scabrous on the 
angles a afy. _ Leaves pee Erg nee nerved, scabrous on the margin, longer 
than the culm Shock n inch Jon ng, with a narrow lance-linear bract at 
e onaee than the spike ; nin gnitnatineoy terminated by a long scabrous awn. Pis- 
tillate spikes commonly 2-3 (often but 1—rarely 4), about an inch or an inch and a half 
long,—the upper ones approximate, sessile—the lowest one a little distant o! a s 
gi ta ne by a long cetacoens scabrous a Bi 
resembling the leaves, very long. Fruit ovoid, inflated, spreading, smooth and shiniug, ae 
tenuated into a long aie slender beak. Akene triquetrous, roughish puncticulate. 
Swampy low grounds. Fl. May-June. Fr. August. 
Obs. is a very common species, in the swampy meadows of Penn- 
elvan, acaiid probably throughout the greater portion of the United 
tt Staminate spikes mostly 2 or more. Stigmas 2. 
3. C. stric’ta, Lum. Staminate spikes 1-3 ; pistillate snilkes usually 
2 or 3, rather distant, cylindric, subsessile, often staminate summit ; 
fruit compressed, ovate, with a very short beak and the ates entire, 
about as long as ‘the oblgigusredale awnless scale. 
Upricut Carex. Tussock-sedge. 
Culms 1-2 feet high, very slender and acutely triquetrous, striate, minutely serrulate 
on the angles, leafy at bce agi f groves in large dense tufts, or tussocks. Leaves 
narrow s linear, keeled, scabrous — argin, often longer than t Im ,—the radical 
ones very n —— and loose ane ao eae ng, forming a large tuft of a ively biuish-zreen. 
minate 2-3 (often - aahane i arate sessile except the uppermost one ; 
oblong, mostly "abt. Pist spikes 3 (or often but 2), 1-2 ches long, rate slen- 
der ,—the | one ©) iF short pe le—the upper le, and often staminate 
at summit brown, with a green kee! ovate, elliptic, or 
obovate, smooth. Akenes te, mucronate, puncticulate. 
Swamps : throughout the Some, States. Fl. April. Fr. June. 
Obs. It is the most common, and most a re a of all the species. 
It is true, that a pedestrian, in crossing neglected boggy meadows, finds 
its dense tufts 
