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CYPERACEAE. 



Vol. I. 



227. Carex oligosperma Michx. Few-seeded 

 Sedge. Fig. 1094. 



Carex oligosperma Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 174. 1803. 



Glabrous, culms very slender, erect, rather stiff, 

 ii°-3° tall, long-stoloniferous. Leaves about ij" 

 wide, not exceeding the culm, involute when old; 

 bracts similar, overtopping the culm ; staminate spike 

 stalked, narrowly linear; pistillate spikes 1 or 2, sub- 

 globose or short-oblong, 5"-io" long, sessile or the 

 lower short-stalked, 5^15-flowered, or the upper some- 

 times reduced to 1 or 2 perigynia and with a stami- 

 nate summit; perigynia ovoid, erect, inflated, strongly 

 few-nerved, yellowish green, shining, 2I" long, about 

 1 J" in diameter, contracted into a minutely 2-toothed 

 beak; scales acute or slightly mucronate, much 

 shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In bogs, Labrador and Newfoundland to the North- 

 west Territory, south to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania- 

 and Michigan. June-Sept. Ascends to 4000 ft. in the 

 Adirondacks. 



228. Carex lurida Wahl. Sallow Sedge. 



C. lurida Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. (II.) 24: 153. 1803. 



Carex tentaculata Muhl. ; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 266. 1805. 



C. tentaculata var. parvula Paine, Cat. PI. Oneida 105. 



1865. 

 Carex lurida var. flaccida Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1 : 73. 



1889. 

 Carex lurida var. parvula (Paine) Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 



20 : 418. 1893. 

 Carex lurida var. exundans Bailey ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 



1 : 299. 1896. 



Glabrous, culms erect, smooth or slightly scabrous 

 above, 6'-3° tall. Leaves elongated, rough, 2"-3i" 

 wide, the upper and the similar bracts usually much 

 overtopping the culm; staminate spike usually solitary, 

 elongated, from nearly sessile to long-stalked; pistillate 

 spikes 1-4, globose to oblong-cylindric, densely many- 

 flowered, V-zV long, 7"-io" in diameter, the upper ses- 

 sile and erect, the lower peduncled and erect, spreading 

 or drooping; perigynia inflated, shining, ovoid, strongly 

 about io-ribbed, contracted into a long subulate beak, 

 ascending or the lower spreading, 3"-44" long, thin, 

 yellowish green, longer than the rough-awned scale ; 

 stigmas' 3. 



In swamps and wet meadows, Nova Scotia to Minnesota 

 variable. June-Oct. 



Nebraska, Florida and Texas. Very 



229. Carex Baileyi Britton. Bailey's Sedge. Fig. 1096. 



Carex tentaculata var. gracilis Boott, 111. 94. i860. Not 



C. gracilis R. Br. 1810. 

 Carex Baileyi Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 22 : 220. 1895. 



Glabrous, culms erect, slender, minutely scabrous 

 above, i°-2° tall. Leaves roughish, elongated, i"-2" 

 wide, the upper and the similar bracts exceeding the 

 culm; staminate spike solitary, more or less strongly 

 peduncled; pistillate spikes 1-3, narrowly cylindric, 

 densely many-flowered, all erect or ascending, 9" -2 ' 

 long, about 4"-6" in diameter, the upper sessile, the 

 lower more or less stalked ; perigynia inflated, ovoid, 

 2i"-3" long, ascending, abruptly contracted into 'a 

 subulate 2-toothed beak about as long as body, promi- 

 nently about io-ribbed, the lower about equalling, the 

 upper longer than the linear-subulate rough-awned 

 scale; stigmas 3. 



Bogs, Maine and Vermont to Virginia and Tennessee. 

 June- Aug. 



