. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 151. Carex arctata Boott. Drooping Wood Sedge. Fig. 1018. Carex arctata Boott; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 227. 1840. Carex arctata Faxoni Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 13: 87. 1888. Glabrous, culms slender, erect, \°-2\° high, roughjsh above. Leaves flat, roughish-margined, much shorter than the culm, the basal ones 24"-s" wide; staminate spike solitary, short-stalked
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 151. Carex arctata Boott. Drooping Wood Sedge. Fig. 1018. Carex arctata Boott; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 227. 1840. Carex arctata Faxoni Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 13: 87. 1888. Glabrous, culms slender, erect, \°-2\° high, roughjsh above. Leaves flat, roughish-margined, much shorter than the culm, the basal ones 24"-s" wide; staminate spike solitary, short-stalked; pistillate spikes 2-5, linear, i'-3' long, 1V-2" thick, loosely 15-45-flo wered, erect, ascending, or filiform-stalked, and at length droop- ing, the lower one usually remote; perigynia lanceo- late, strongly stipitate, deep green, rather strongly few- nerved, narrowed at each end, ii"-2j" long, less than 1" thick, 3-angled, tapering into a short, hyaline-tipped, 2-toothed beak; scales ovate, cuspidate or short-awned, about one-third shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. In dry woods and thickets, Newfoundland and Quebec to Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Michigan. May-June. Carex Knieskernii Dewey, is probably a hybrid with C. castanea, C. arctata also hybridizes with C. Swanii,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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