66 33. Trasus. 9. CYPERACEJE. Pl.cnd.ph . 
branous, awned ; fruit as long as the glumes, loose, ovate ; 
leak 2-cut. 
Gramen cvperoides sylvarmn tenuius spicatum, Raii Syn. 419, polyst. 10; 
Park. 1171. 
Carex vesicaria 0, Lin. S. P. 1389. 
Carex capiliaris, Leers Herb. 202. 
Carex patula, Pollich 2, 597. 
Carex Drymeia, Linn. Suppl.A 14. 
Carex sylvaiica, Huds. FI. AngAll. 
Woods; perennial; May and June. 
Culm 3 feet high, upright, leafy, 3-sided, sides convex ; 
leaves roughish, light green ; hractece longsheathed ; spikes 
6 or 8, slender, loose, male 1 or 2 ; glumes ovate, acute, 
whitish, rib green ; fruit longbeaked. 
26. Trasus capiliaris . Hair sedge. 
Female spikes 3, ovate, loose, about 12-flowered; sheaths 
half as long as the footstalk ; glumes ovate, shorter than 
the fruit, hyaline, deciduous; fruit elliptical. 
Carex capiliaris, Lin. S.P. 13S6. 
Alpine mountains; perennial ; July and August. 
Culm upright, naked; leaves short, narrow; hractece 
upright, terminal ; footstalks 3 or 4, nearly umbellate, af- 
terwards, by the growth of the rachis, distant ; male spike 
upright, linear, silvery-brown, about 10 -flowered ; female 
spikes drooping, short ; glumes brown, tip white ; fruit 
brown, smooth. 
27. Trasus ustulatus . Burnt sedge . 
Female spikes 2, ovate; glumes elliptical, shorter than 
the fruit; hractece sheathing, very short; fruit ovate, 
pointed, 2-toothed, compressed, edge rough. 
Carex atrofusca, Scheuchzer Carex , 106. 
Carex ustuiata, Wahl. Act. Holm. 1803, 156. 
Moist micaceous mountains; perennial; July. 
Root tufted, scarcely creeping; culm almost naked, smooth, 
6 in. high; leaves short, erect, striated, smooth; spike dark 
blackish brown, tumid, short; male upright. 
28. Trasus Icevigaius. Smooth sedge . 
Female spikes 3, cylindrical, slender, distant; glumes 
oblong, ovate, nearly as long as the fruit, awned ; fruit 
ovate, pointed ; beaks 2, deeply cut, spreading ; sheaths 
of the bracteae very long. 
Carex laevigata, Smith L. T. 3, 272. 
. Carex helodes, Link in Scl\rad. Diar. Bot . 1799, 303 , 
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