. 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. 65. Carex Bebbii Olney. Bebb's Sedge. Fig. 932. C. tribuloides var. Bebbii Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 55. 1889. C. Bebbii Olney; Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 10 : 379. 1885. Culms erect, acutely triangular and roughened above, rather slender, 8'-2i° high, in dense clumps. Leaves i"-2i" wide, shorter than the culm; lower one or two bracts usually developed but in
. 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. 65. Carex Bebbii Olney. Bebb's Sedge. Fig. 932. C. tribuloides var. Bebbii Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 55. 1889. C. Bebbii Olney; Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 10 : 379. 1885. Culms erect, acutely triangular and roughened above, rather slender, 8'-2i° high, in dense clumps. Leaves i"-2i" wide, shorter than the culm; lower one or two bracts usually developed but inconspicuous; spikes usually 5-10, brownish-tinged, blunt, densely many- flowered, subglobose to broadly ovoid, 2"-$" long, ii"-3" wide, aggregated into an oblong or linear- oblong head 7"-i4" long, 4"-6" thick; perigynia as- cending, narrowly ovate, wing-margined to the rounded base, ii"-2" long, 4"-i wide at base, dis- tended over achene, tapering into a rough 2-toothed beak, less than half length of the obscurely nerved body; scales oblong-ovate, acute or short-acuminate, brownish, nearly as wide as but shorter than perigynia; stigmas 2. In low grounds, Newfoundland to British Columbia and northward, southward to New Jersey, Illinois and Colo- rado. 66. Carex straminea Willd. Straw Sedge. Dog- grass. Fig. 933. Carex straminea Willd.; Schk. Riedgr. 49. /. $4. 1801. Carex tenera Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 8 : 97. 1824. Culms very slender, roughish above, i°-2i° long, the top often nodding. Leaves 1" wide or less, long-pointed, shorter than the culm; bracts short or the lower bristle- form and exceeding its spike; spikes 3-8, subglobose or slightly obovoid, 2"-24" thick, light brown or greenish, separated on the commonly zigzag rachis, or contiguous, usually clayate at base; staminate flowers basal; perigynia widely spreading to ascending, narrowly to broadly ovate, green, iJ"-2" long, S
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