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sharply-toothed beak, longer than the lanceolate acute or awned 

 scale. 



Swamps, bogs and margins of streams. Common. June, July. 



The spikes are longer than in the last species, the perigynia 

 are smaller and firmer. The species may be recognized by the 

 nodose-netted stems and leaves. It is common in the Adirondack 

 region where there are small forms, Yar. minor Boott, with 

 spikes scarcely more than long. 



132. Carex Schweinitzii Dew. 



Stoloniferous ; stems l c -2° high, erect, rough on the acute 

 angles ; leaves longer than the culm, l-$-"-3" broad or more 

 rough, yellowish-green ; staminate spikes 1-2, clavate, 9 "-12, 

 long on peduncles \'-V in length ; pistillate spikes 3-4, densely 

 flowered, often loosely at the base, and sometimes compound, 

 occasionally staminate at the apex, cylindrical, T-2' long or 

 more, 3"-4/' thick, approximate, mostly on short spreading stalks, 

 or sometimes the lowest remote on a filiform nodding peduncle 

 2 / -2-J- / long; bracts leaf -like, short sheathing or not sheathing, 

 longer than the culm ; perigynia small, turgid-ovoid, few-nerved, 

 thin, divergent, gradually tapering into a slender bidentate beak, 

 nearly twice the length of the rough-awned scale. 



Swamps and borders of streams. Oneida and Herkimer coun- 

 ties. Apparently rare or wanting elsewhere. June. 



133. Carex longirostris Torr. 



Stems i.0 / -S0 / high, slender, erect, smooth ; leaves shorter than 

 the culm, iy'-fc" wide, rough, light or glaucous green ; staminate 

 spikes 2-3, clavate, %'-V long, short-ped uncled, yellowish-white ; 

 pistillate spikes 2-5, loosely flowered, cylindrical, V-2 ; long, 

 distant, the uppermost short-stalked and mostly erect, sometimes 

 half staminate above, the others on filiform, drooping peduncles 

 iy-6 ; in length ; bracts leafy or the uppermost setaceous, the 

 lowe*t barely sheathing, shorter than the culm ; perigynia 

 turgid -globular or globose-ovoid, 2-ribbed, nerveless, divergent, 

 smooth, very abruptly contracted into a slender bifid beak longer 

 than the body ; scale lanceolate, whitish, often with a long awn- 

 like point, equal to or a little shorter than the perigynia. 



Dry rocky places in woods or clearings. Not common. June. 



A form with spikes less than one inch long is Yar. minor 

 Boott. 



