52 32. Carex. 9. CYPERACEiE. PL end. ph* 
Root creeping ; culm 9 in. high ; leaves slender, nearly 
upright; male spike terminal, lanceolate, upright; female 
spikes usually 2, upright, distant ; glume lanceolate, obtuse, 
brown, edge thin and pale ; fruit inflated, longer than the 
glume. 
23. Carex ccespitosa . T y ft carexi 
Female spikes cylindrical, blunt, mostly 3, distant, the 
lower with short footstalks ; fruit ovate, obtuse, pierced 
at the top, edge not notched ; glume small, oblong, blunt, 
edge white ; hractece setaceous, leaflike, eared at the base ; 
culm very acutely angled, flaccid; leaves narrow, long, 
flaccid. 
Gramen cyperoides q. G. caryophylleum angustissimis foliis, spicis ses- 
sili bus brevioribus erectis non compactis, Iiaii Syn. 418. polyst. 6. 
Carex casspitosa, Lin. S. P. 1388. 
Bogs and damp woods ; perennial ; May* 
Root creeping; culm upright, 12 in. high; leaves light 
green, glaucous, soft, upright; male spikes 1 or 2, upright, 
oblong, 3-sided; female 2 or 3, cylindrical; glume black, 
shorter than the fruit ; hractece eared, ears large, nearly 
confluent ; fruit persistent. 
24. Carex strict a. Straightleaf carex . 
Female spikes mostly 3, distant, cylindrical, attenuated, 
the lowest with a very short footstalk ; fruit ovate, acute, 
apex pierced ; glume lanceolate, acute, small ; hractece 1 
broad ; culm stiff, acutely angled ; leaves short, stiff. 
Gramen cyperoides foliis caryophylleis, spicis erectis sessilibus e se- 
mi ni bus confertis coinpositis, Iiaii Syn. 418, polyst. 4. 
Carex caespitosa, Huds. Fl.Ang. 412. 
Carex caespitosa Lightf. FI. Sc. 581. 
Carex acuta «, Leers Herb. 204. 
Carex stricta, Goudenough L. T. 2, 190. 
Bogs; perenial ; April 
Root creeping; calm 2 feet high, upright; male spikes 2, 
upright, 3-sided ; female 3, sessile, cylindrical, acute ; 
glume acute, shorter than the fruit ; hractece leaflike, not 
eared at the base; fruit acute, apex not notched. 
25. Carex acuta. Sharp-pointed carex. 
Male spikes 2 or 3 ; female 4 or 5, with a short foot- 
stalk, rather drooping, cylindrical, distant; fruit oblong, 
beak very short, apex not notched but pierced ; glume 
oblong, acute, as long as the fruit ; hractece long, leafy ; 
culm acute-angled, rough, lax ; leaves lax. 
