. 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. Variable Sedge. 117. Carex polymorpha Muhl. Fig. 984. Carex polymorpha Muhl. Gram. 239. 1817. Glabrous, rather dark green, from matted, elongated, stout rootstocks, culms stiff, aphyllopodic and strongly purplish-tinged at base, strictly erect, smooth or nearly so, l°-2° tall. Leaves flat, ii"-2" wide, nearly erect, those of fertile culm short; bracts
. 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. Variable Sedge. 117. Carex polymorpha Muhl. Fig. 984. Carex polymorpha Muhl. Gram. 239. 1817. Glabrous, rather dark green, from matted, elongated, stout rootstocks, culms stiff, aphyllopodic and strongly purplish-tinged at base, strictly erect, smooth or nearly so, l°-2° tall. Leaves flat, ii"-2" wide, nearly erect, those of fertile culm short; bracts long-sheathing; staminate spike 1 or rarely 2, long-stalked; pistillate spikes commonly I or 2, erect, short-stalked, densely 12-25-flowered or sometimes looser at the base, j"-i¥ long, 3"-4" thick, often staminate at the summit; peri- gynia ovoid-oblong, obscurely 3-angled, 24" long, \\" in diameter, the beak one-half as long as the body, the orifice oblique; scales red-brown, obtuse or the lower acute, somewhat shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. Wet meadows or borders of woods, southern Maine to northern New Jersey, south to North Carolina. Local. Ascends to 2000 ft. in Pennsylvania. June-Aug. 118. Carex plantaginea Lam. Plantain-leaved Sedge. Fig. 985. Carex plantaginea Lam. Encycl. 3: 392. 1789. Glabrous, rather dark green, culms slender, erect or reclining, 6'-2° long. Leaves of sterile culms s"—13" wide, persistent through the winter, those of fertile culms with rudimentary blades, the sheaths strongly reddened; bracts short; staminate spike long-stalked, purple; pistillate spikes 3 or 4, erect, widely separated, all stalked, 1' or less long, loosely 4-8-flowered, the stalks of the upper ones enclosed in the sheaths; peri- gynia oblong-elliptic, short-beaked, many-nerved, il"- 2I" long, nearly 1" thick, longer than the ovate cuspi- date scales; stigmas 3. In woods, New Brunswick and Ontario to Manitoba, south to
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