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CYPERACEAE (SEDGE FAMILY) 



422. 0. aurea. 



slightly if at all staminate at tip ; scales very sharp and spreading, longer than 

 the perigynia. (C. Haydeni Dewey.) — Me. to Ky., Ont., and la. 



72. C. aiirea Nutt. Low and slender, 0.5-5 dm. high; leaves pale green, 

 narrow (1-3 mm. wide); 2 or 3 of the bracts exceeding the culm ; spikes 3-5, 

 all but the lowest usually approximate, peduncled or the upper one 

 or two sessile, erect, loosely few-flowered or sometimes becoming 

 2 cm. long, at maturity yellow or brown, the terminal one fre- 

 quently pistillate above ; periyynium fleshy at maturity, plump, 

 nerved, about 2 mm. long, rounded or slightly depressed at tip, 

 longer than the blunt white or pale-brown scale. — 

 Wet meadows and springy banks, Nfd. to B. C, 

 s. to n. Ct., centr. N. Y., n.w. Pa., Ind., Wise, etc., 

 mostly in calcareous regions. June-July. Fig. 422. 

 73. C. bicolor All. Similar ; spikes mostly 

 crowded, only the lowermost subtended by an 

 elongated bract, the others short-bracted or bract- 

 less, the terminal mostly pistillate ; mature peri- 

 gynia dry and firm, white, pulverulent, tapering to ^„„ „ bicolor 

 the short tip ; scales dark brown or purplish. — Wet ledges and 

 gravelly shores, Lab. to n. Me. ; n. shore L. Superior. June-Aug. (Greenl., 

 Eu.) Fig. 423. 



74. C. pauciflbra Lightf. Very slender but erect, stiff, 

 0.5-6 dm. high ; leaves very narrow, usually much shorter 

 than the culm ; staminate and pistillate flowers 2-5 ; peri- 

 gynia straw-color, subulate, several times longer 

 than the inconspicuous scales, at maturity 

 deflexed and easily detached. ■ — Cold bogs, Nfd. 

 to Alaska, locally s. to Ct., Pa., Mich., Minn., 

 etc. June, July. (Eu.) Fig. 424. 



75. C. leptalea Wahlenb. Capillary, erect 

 424. C. pauciflora. °^ slightly diffuse, 0.5-5 dm. high ; leaves mostly 425. C!. leptalea. 



shorter than the culm ; spike 0.4-1.6 cm. long, 

 staminate portion small, the subalternate thin green nervose oblong or narrowly 

 ellipsoid blunt perigynia about twice longer than the brownish mostly obtuse 

 caducous scales. (C. polytrichoides Muhl.) — Bogs and wet 

 meadows, Nfd. to B. C, s. to Pa., the Great Lakes, Mo., Col., 

 and Ore. ; and in the mts. to N. C. Jmie-Aug. Fig. 425. 



76. C. HarpSri Fernald. Similar, 2.5-7 dm. 

 high ; the more crowded spike with strongly 

 overlapping )inear-oblong perigynia and whitish 

 acuminate scales. — Bogs and swampy woods. 

 Pa. to Fla. and Tex. May-July. Fig. 426. 



77. C. FrasSri Andrews. Caespitose ; culm 

 2-5 dm. high, naked or the lower portion in- 

 cluded in loosely sheathing leaves, smooth and stiff ; leaves 

 broad, destitute of midrib, closely many-ribbed, very thick and 

 persistent, pale, 1.5-6 dm. long; spike solitary, the pistillate 

 portion globular, the longer staminate tip oblong ; perigynia 



straw-colored, papery, ovoid, faintly nerved, 

 much longer than the whitish scales. — Rich 

 mountain woods, Va., W. Va., and south w. ; 

 local. May-July. Fig. 427. 



78. C. Halleri Gunn, Small and slender, 1-6 dm. high ; culm 

 f?ij« anc?o6{J(se, smooth or roughish, naked above ; leaves narrow 

 and flat, shorter than the culm ; spikes 2-4, aggregated, 4-8 Him. 

 long, sessile or rarely the lowest short-stalked ; perigynia orbicu- 

 lar to elliptic, nerveless or nearly so, the short beak slightly 

 notched, a little longer than the ovate purple-brown obtuse scales. 

 (C.alpina Sw.) — Cold* wet rocks, e. Que., L. Superior region, 

 Rocky Mts., and far noi'thw, July, Aug. (Eu.) Fig. 488, 



^26. C. Harperi. 



42T. C. Fraseri x ^. 



Inflorescence and" 



leaf-tip. 



0, HaUerl. 



