9. CYPERACEiE. 32. Carex. 
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Pi. end. pk. 
14. Car ex divisa. Divided car ex. 
Spikelets mostly 6, ovate, upper male interrupted ; fruit 
ovate, adpressed, apex 2-toothed, compressed; hractece leaf- 
like erect, at the Very bottom of the spike ; root creeping. 
Gramen cyperoides ex monte Ballon, spica divulsa, Raii Sz/n.423, spic. 3 . 
Carex divisa, Hudson FI. AnglAOb. 
Bogs and near the sea ; perennial ; May, June. 
Root thick, twisted; culm upright, weak, 2 feet high; 
leaves slender, upright, light green ; spike ovate, branched, 
compressed ; spikelets crowded irregularly ; hractece leaflike, 
longer than the spike ; glumes brown, mucronated, with a 
pale edge and keel. 
(3. curta. Bractece shorter than the spike. 
15. Carex ovalis. Oval carex . 
Spikelets mostly 6, roundish, elliptical, rather close; 
lower male, solitary \ fruit ovate, margined, margin ciliated, 
serrated, apex with two short teeth ; glumes lanceolate as 
long as the fruit ; culm fistulous. 
Gramen cyperoides spica e pluribus spicis brevibus mollibus composita, 
Raii Syn. 422, spic. 2. 
Carex leporina, Hudson FI. Angl.404?. 
Carex ovalis, Goodenough L. T. 2, 148. 
Bogs; perennial; June. 
Culm upright, 2 feet high, 3-sided, leafy at the base ; 
leaves deep green, flat, as long as the culm ; spikelets 4 to 6, 
elliptical, reddish green ; hractece leaflike, as long as the 
spike, falling off; glume acute, reddish; keel green. 
16. Carex elongata. Longspike carex * 
Spikelets 6 to 12, alternate, approximate, cylindrical, 
lower male, single; fruit ovate, pointed, nicked, ribbed, 
patulous ; glumes ovate, obtuse, much shorter than the 
fruit. 
Gramen cyperoides angustifolium npicis longis erectis, C. Bauhin Pi * 
nax 6. 
Carex elongata, Lin. S. P. 1383. 
Carex canescens, Pollich Pal. 881. 
Carex multicaulis, Ehr. Gram. 88. 
Carex multiceps, Etr.de Flora , 78. 
Marshy places ; perennial; June. 
Roots in tufts; culm 2 feet high, naked above, apex 
drooping ; leaves pale green, upright ; spike hardly inter- 
rupted; spikelets 6 to 12, cylindrical, when ripe squarose, 
crowded above, remote below ; hractece glumaceous, rib 
ending in a bristle ; glumes brown red ; rib green. 
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