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LIST OF SEDGES. 



there is an admixture of the higher grasses among the 

 carices or sedges, such as the fowl meadow, the bastard 

 fowl meadow, the white top, or some of the other 

 species possessing higher nutritive qualities ; and then, 

 of course, the hay made from the swale is proportion- 

 ably improved, and may thus become of considerable 

 value for winter fodder. 



The sedges are arranged in the following table: 



Table III. — List of Carices or Sedges. {Cyperacece.) 



Common Name. 



Yellow Dwarf Sedge, 

 Diandrus Sedge, . . 

 Nuttall'3 Sedge, . . 

 Brown Sedge, . . . 

 Chestnut Sedge, . . 

 Michaux's Sedge, . 

 Engelmann's Sedge, 

 Bristle-spiked Galingale, 

 Dwarf Odorous Galingale, 

 Pointed Sedge, .... 



Green Sedge, 



Toothed Galingale, . . 



Nut Grass, 



Gray's Galingale, . . . 



Straw Sedge, 



Schweinitz'a Galingale, . 

 Ovate Sedge, . . . 



Bent Sedge, 



"Wiry Sedge, 



Roundhead Sedge, . . . 

 'DuUchium, 



Dwarf Ilemicarpha, . . 



Horsetail Rush, . 



Quadrangular Rush, . . 



Tubercled Spike-rush, . 



Obtuse Spike-rush, . . 



Common Spike-rush, . . 



Olive Spike-rush, . . . 

 Brake Spike-rush, . 



Mediate Spike-rush, . . 



Slender Club-rush, . . 



Systematic Name. 



Cyperus flavescens, . 

 Cyperus diandrus, . . 

 Cyperus Nuttallii, . 

 Cyperus flavicomua, . 

 Cyperus erythrorhizos, . 

 Cyperus Michauxianus, 

 Cyperus Engelmanni, . 

 Cyperus strigosus, . . . 

 Cyperus inflexus, . . 

 Cyperus acumioatus, . 

 Cyperus vireng, . . . 

 Cyperus dentatus, . . . 

 Cyperus rotundus, , . 

 Cyperus Grayii, . . 

 Cyperas phymatodes, . 

 Cyperus Schweinitzii, . 

 Cyperus ovularis, . 

 Cyperus retrofractus, 

 Cyperus filiculmis, . . 

 Kyllingia pumila, . , . 

 Dulichiiam spathaceum, 

 Ilemicarpha subsquar- 



rosa, 



Eleocharis equisetoides, 

 Eleocharis quadrangu- 



lata, 



Eleocharis tuberculosa, 

 Eleocharis obtusa, . . . 

 Eleocharis palustris, . 

 Eleocharis dlivacea, . . 

 Eleocharis rostellata, . 

 Eleocharis intermedia, . 

 Eleocharis tenuis, . 



