SEDGE FAMILY 



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longer than the pointed, transparent glumes. — Thickets; rare. — 

 Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



56. C. depauperdta (Starved Wood Sedge). — Tufted ; stems 

 slender, 1 — 2 feet high, 3-angled, smooth, leafy ; leaves long, 

 narrow, flat ; staminate spikelet slender, an inch or more long ; 

 pistillate spikelets 3 — 5, about \ in. long, erect, green, 3 — 4- 

 flowered, the lower on long stalks j fruits few, very large, globose, 

 many-ribbed, with a long beak. — Dry woods 



in the south ; very rare. — Fl. May, June. 

 Perennial. 



57. C. sylvdtica (Wood Sedge).— Tufted; 

 stems weak, 1 — 3 feet high, leafy ; leaves 

 flaccid ; staminate spikelet pale, about an 

 inch long ; pistillate spikelets distant, 

 slender, an inch or more in length, on 

 long stalks, loose-flowered ; bracts leafy, 

 with long sheaths ; glumes green, narrow, 

 pointed ; styles 3-cleft ; fruit elliptical, 

 smooth, obscurely veined, tapering into a 

 long beak. — Damp woods ; common. — Fl. 

 May, June. Perennial. 



58. C. helddes (Smooth-stalked Sedge). — 

 Tufted, creeping ; stems smooth, 2 — 3 feet 

 high ; leaves short, broad, dotted beneath ; 

 staminate spikelets 1 — 2 in. long, 3-angled ; 

 pistillate spikelets distant, cylindric, 1 — 2 

 in. long, slender, green, stalked ; fruit 

 ovoid, tapering at both ends, ribbed, with 

 a rough beak. — Wet places ; not common. 

 — Fl. June. Perennial. 



59. C. binervis (Green-ribbed Sedge). — 

 A closely allied, but much smaller species, 

 generally about a foot high ; leaves rigid, 

 keeled, recurved ; pistillate spikelets not 

 more than an inch long, brownish ; fruit cXrex dIstans [L*** Sedge\ 

 with two prominent green ribs and a 



broad, smooth beak. — Heaths ; common. — Fl. June, July. 

 Perennial. 



60. C. distans (Loose Sedge). — Another closely allied species, 

 less coarse ; leaves glaucous ; spikelets 4 or 5, far apart, the ter- 

 minal one staminate, sometimes with a small one close to it, the 

 others pistillate, \ — 1 in. long, oblong, erect, stalked, but some- 

 times appearing sessile, the stalks being enclosed in the sheaths of 

 the leafy bracts; glumes brownish ; styles 3-cleft; fruit yellowish- 



