9. CYPERACEJE. 33. Trasus. 
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PL end. ph. 
18. Trasus binervis. Tworibbed sedge. 
Female spikes 3, cylindrical, distant ; bractece long, very 
slender, sheaths long; glumes obtuse, pointed, smaller than 
the fruit ; fruit elliptical, 2-ribbed, apex 2-lobed, hyaline. 
Carex distans, Lightfoot FI. Sc. 561. 
Carex binervis, Smith L. T. 5, 268. 
Dry heaths ; perennial ; June. 
Cidm upright, 2 feet high, deep glaucous green, smooth, 
angles blunt ; leaves broad, glaucous ; bracterz distant, like 
the leaves ; male spike thin ; glume elliptical, blunt, blackish, 
slightly pointed, rib green ; female spikes 3 to 5, cylindri- 
cal, upright, lower very distant; glumes acute, blackish, 
smooth, pointed, rib green; fruit reddish brown, scarcely 
beaked, ribs green. 
ramosus. Lower female spike branched. 
y. androgynus . Female spikes with a few male flowrets 
above. 
1 9. Trasus paniceus. Bread sedge . 
Female spikes 2 or 3, cylindrical, rather distant; sheaths 
long ; glumes ovate, smaller than the fruit ; fruit ovate, 
blunt, apex not notched ; culm smooth. 
Gramen cyperoides foliis caryophylleis, spicis e rarioribus et tumidi- 
oribus granis compositis, Raii Syn. 418, polyst. 3. 
Carex panicea, Lin. Sp. 1387. 
Damp meadows and pastures; perennial; May and June. 
Root creeping ; culm, weak, a foot high, angles blunt, sides 
rounded ; bractece much shorter than the culm ; male spike 1, 
bellied, acute; female spikes 2 or 3, distant, cylindrical; 
glumes long, ovate, acute, rib green ; fruit inflated. 
0. Lcersii. Female spike roundish, footstalk very long. 
y. androgynus . Female spike having a few male flowers 
at the tip. 
3*. distachyos. Male spikes two. 
20. Trasus depauperatus. Starved sedge. 
Female spikes 2, 3 to 5-flowered, distant ; sheaths short ; 
glumes oblong ; fruit longer than the glumes, obovate, in- 
flated, beaked, apex oblique. 
Carex ventricosa, Curtis FI. Lond. 6, 68. 
Carex depauperata, Goodenough L. T. 2, 181, 
Carex triflora, Willd. Phytogr. 1,2. 
