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Pl.end.ph. 9. CYPERACEiE. 32. Carex. 
Damp woods ; perennial ; May. 
Culm 3-sided, sides flat, angles rough, 1 8 inches high ; 
leaves slender ; sheaths light green ; spike long, but inter- 
rupted in the lower part and branched ; spikelets 6 or 8, 
ovate when ripe, slightly squarose ; upper spikelets sessile, 
close, nearly confluent; middle spikelets distant; lowest 
spikelets 1 or 2, distant, often compound, or on a short 
branch ; hractece slender, setaceous ; glumes acute, scariose. 
9. Carex vulpina . Fox carex . 
Spikelets aggregate in threes or fives, oblong, crowded, 
male above; fruit oval, compressed, 3-sided, divergent, 
apex 2- toothed ; Iractece setaceous ; culm 3-sided, angles 
very acute, sides concave ; leaves broad. 
Gramen cyperoides palustre majus spica compacta, JRaii Syn. 423, spic. 8. 
Gramen palustre cyperoides, Ger. em. 21. 
Gramen cyperoides palustre majus, Park. 1266. 
Carex vulpina, Lin. S. P , 1382. 
Bogs and river sides; perennial; May to July. 
Root fibrous, matted ; leaves broad, deep green, longer 
than the culm ; calm upright, 2 feet high, leafy at bottom, 
thick near the spike, angles very rough ; spike obtuse ; 
partial spikes compact, sessile; spikelets sessile; glumes 
acute, brown, with the keel greenish. 
£. decomposita. Braclece awned ; panicle doubly branched. 
y. aristata. Bractece awned ; panicle branched. 
& acuta. Bractece acute ; panicle branched. 
10. Carex intermedia. Intermediate carex. 
Spikelets alternate, crowded, the lowest rather distant; 
upper and lower spikelets female, middle spikelets male ; 
fruit ovate, margined, apex 2-cut, angles ciliated and ser- 
rate ; culm erect ; root creeping. 
Gramen cyperoides, q. Gramini cyperoidi ex monte Ballon simile, spica 
totali e pluribus spicis composita Plukenet, Ran Syn. 423, spic, 4. 
Carex spicata, Pollich Pal. 878. 
Carex disticha, Hudson FI. Ang. 403. 
Carex arenaria, Leers FI. Herb. 195. 
Carex intermedia, Goodenough L. T. 2, 154. 
Bogs and watery places ; perennial ; May, June. 
Root descending deep; leaves long; culm upright, 18 
in. high, angles acute and rough ; spike blunt, thick above, 
slightly compressed, never two-rowed ; spikelets many, 
ovate, ferruginous ; glumes acute, brown with a pale rib. 
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