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Pr 347
7-13-30? Carex intumescens Rudge & 258 BOBI
439 Fl. almost ripe. Culm not stout, 3-angled but
not thin-edged, rough-like, somewhat tufted on
running root-stock. Basal sheaths reddish. Culm
naked in middle with 2 spikes no shortly be-
much
spikes & overtopping them. The spike slender, 1 cm
on peduncle a little longer. Terminal but nearly hidden
by 2 spikes. 2 spikes each 7-fld upright, nearly
deciduous. Perigynia inflated, green, rounded at base
at most 18-nerved, 13x5 mm, narrowed to 2- tooth. Leaf
scales about 5 mm long, green at mid nerve more or
less prolonged into rough awn with much broken
deciduous margins. In spike the lowest scales
rough around nerve which is prolonged into
rough awn but the scales smooth very acutely.
Spice pressed had longer & more conspicuous
m spike v 2 spikes 4-6 fld.
348 Pr
7-14-30 Habenaria orbiculata Torr & 309: Lysip-
Rydt.
-BVBI555 Fl. Strip woods west of little F.& P. marsh
to 200 ft path near its crest (where there is a large
aero-path). Curiously terminated (See BVBI 548 "straight"
as against H. obtusata "very acute".
349
7-14-30 Habenaria obtusata Richards & 369: Lysicella
to
-Richards Rydt BOBI 556 Fl. Near above, nd. side
of path.