. 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. CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 41. Carex glareosa Wahl. Weak Clustered Sedge. Fig. 908. Carex glareosa Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (II.) 24: 146. 1803. Closely resembles the preceding species, but has weak spreading or reclining culms 2'-i2' long. Leaves narrower, i"-|" wide, involute; spikes 2 or 3, gynaecandrous, oblong or subglobose, few or several-flowere
. 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. CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 41. Carex glareosa Wahl. Weak Clustered Sedge. Fig. 908. Carex glareosa Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (II.) 24: 146. 1803. Closely resembles the preceding species, but has weak spreading or reclining culms 2'-i2' long. Leaves narrower, i"-|" wide, involute; spikes 2 or 3, gynaecandrous, oblong or subglobose, few or several-flowered, 2i"-6" long, about ii" in diameter, brown, subtended by very small scale-like bracts; perigynia lanceolate, ij" long, I" wide, tapering at apex into the beak, strongly several-nerved; scales ovate, obtusish,^ brown, with hyaline margins, ex- ceeded by the perigynia; achene filling perigynium; stigmas 2. Brackish soil along St. Lawrence, Quebec. Very local. Also in northern Europe. Summer. 42. Carex Heleonastes Ehrh. Hudson Bay Sedge. Fig. 909. Carex Heleonastes Ehrh.; L. f. Suppl. 414. 1781. Culms slender, stiff, erect, sharply angled, very rough, 6'-i8' high, from slender, somewhat elongated root- stocks. Leaves rigid, erect, usually becoming involute, 1" or less wide, shorter than the culm; bracts very short or none; spikes 2-5, subglobose, gynaecandrous, not long- clavate at base, brown, 2"-4i" long, 2"-$" wide, clus- tered at the summit; perigynia 5-10, appressed-ascend- ing, broadly ovate or ovate-elliptic, blunt-edged, faintly several-nerved, ij" long, more than i" wide, tapering at apex into the short sharp beak; scales ovate, brown with broad hyaline margins, nearly as long as the perigynia; achene filling perigynium; stigmas 2. Hudson Bay to the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Local. Also in Europe and Asia. Summer. 43. Carex norvegica Willd. Norway Sedge. Fig. 910. Carex norvegica Willd.; Schk. Riedgr. 50. 1801.
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