. 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. 83. Carex Jamesii Schwein. James' Sedge. Fig. 950. Carex Jamesii Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1: 67. 1824. Carex Steudelii Kunth, Enum. 2: 480. 1837. Similar to the preceding species, but the leaves rather narrower, soft, spreading or ascending, very, much surpassing the spikes, the lowest mere clasping sheaths. Spikes androgynous, one or more of them filiform-stal
. 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. 83. Carex Jamesii Schwein. James' Sedge. Fig. 950. Carex Jamesii Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1: 67. 1824. Carex Steudelii Kunth, Enum. 2: 480. 1837. Similar to the preceding species, but the leaves rather narrower, soft, spreading or ascending, very, much surpassing the spikes, the lowest mere clasping sheaths. Spikes androgynous, one or more of them filiform-stalked, the terminal staminate portion very slender, the pistillate flowers usually 2 or 3 and slightly separated; body of the perigynium subglobose, 1" in diameter, contracted at the base, abruptly tipped by a subulate rough beak of more than its own length; lower scales bract-like, foliaceous, commonly much overtopping the spike, the upper shorter and sometimes not exceeding the perigynia; stigmas 3. In dry woods and thickets, southern Ontario and New York to Michigan and Iowa, south to West Virginia, Missouri and Kansas. April-May. 84. Carex durifolia Bailey. Back's Sedge. Fig- 95i-. Carex Backii Boott; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 210. pi. 209. 1840. Not C. Backana Dewey, 1836. Carex durifolia Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 428. 1893. Similar to the preceding species, glabrous, culms from very short to 10' high. Leaves ascending or spreading, 6'-l2' long, ll"~3" wide, very much over- topping the spikes; spikes 1-3, nearly basal, androgy- nous, 1 or 2 of them long-stalked, the staminate flowers few, inconspicuous, the pistillate 2-6, sub- tended by leafy bract-like elongated scales which nearly enclose the inflorescence; perigynia oval, smooth, gradually tapering into a stout two-edged beak nearly or quite as long as the body, which is about \\" long and 1" thick; stigmas %. In woods and thickets, eastern Quebec to Assiniboia, south to Massachusetts, New York, O
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