68 38. Trasus. 9. CYPERACEiE. Pl.end.ph. 
Gramen cyperoides, foliis caryophylleis, gpicis oblongis e pediculis 
longioribus pendulis, Raii Syn. 418, polyst.5. 
Carex limosa /3, Leers Herb. 201. 
Carex glauca. Scop. Cam. 2,223. 
Carex recurva, Huds. FI. Ang. 413. 
Moist grass lands and woods; perennial; May, June. 
Root creeping ; herb sea-green ; culm 1 foot high, sides 
convex ; leaves upright, shorter than the culm, broadish ; 
bractece. upright, equalling the culm in height ; male spike 
linear, lanceolate; female spikes cylindrical; glumes ovate, 
blackish, edge whitish, rib yellowish ; fruit bluntly 3-sided, 
almost ribless, brownish green, turning black. 
/3. Micheliana . Male spikes many ; fruit smooth. 
Carex Micheliana, Smith L. T. 5,270. 
y. ramosa. Spikes branched. 
32. Trasus rari floras. Fewflowered sedge. 
Female spike loose, fewflowered; glumes ovate, acute; 
fruit obovate, obtusely 3-sided ; root creeping. 
Carex rariflora, Eng. Bot. 35,2516. 
Carex limosa rariflora, TVahlen. Act. Holm . 1803, 163. 
Alpine mountains; perennial; July. 
Culm a foot high ; glumes black, 
33. Trasus chloros tacky os. Greenspike sedge . 
Female spikes 4, cylindrical, manyflowered ; glume as 
long as the fruit ; fruit ovate, lanceolate, furrowed, 2-cusped, 
spreading; root fibrous. 
Gramen cyperoides, spica pendula breviore, Rail Syn. 419, polyst. 12. 
Pseudo-cyperus, Ger. em. 29. 
Cyperus sen Pseudo-cyperus spica brevi pendula, Park. 1266. 
Carex Pseudo-cyperus, Lin. S. P. 1387. 
Bastard cyperus. 
Moist woods and river-banks ; perennial ; June. 
Culm a foot high, upright, leafy, acute-angled; leaves 
pale green, sheathing; peduncles very long; spikes cylin- 
drical, manyflowered, compact ; male spikes upright, red- 
dish ; female spikes drooping, greenish ; glumes awned ; 
awns very long, very rough. 
<3. bipedunculalus. Peduncles in pairs from the same 
sheath. 
