. 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. Eastern Sedge. Fig. 922. Carex atlantica Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 425. 1893. C. sterilis Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 37: 484. 1902. Similar to C. Leersii but stouter, culms obtusely trian- gular below, more sharply triangular and roughish above, i°-24° tall. Leaves i"-a" wide, stiff, flat or'in drying somewhat involute, the upper sometimes over- topp
. 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. Eastern Sedge. Fig. 922. Carex atlantica Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 425. 1893. C. sterilis Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 37: 484. 1902. Similar to C. Leersii but stouter, culms obtusely trian- gular below, more sharply triangular and roughish above, i°-24° tall. Leaves i"-a" wide, stiff, flat or'in drying somewhat involute, the upper sometimes over- topping the spikes, the lower very short and acute; spikes 2r7> spreading, subglobose or short-cylindric, nearly 3" in diameter, 15-50-flowered, the staminate flowers numerous at the base of the terminal one, or this rarely entirely staminate; perigynia green, with suborbicular body, plano-convex, sharp-margined, ii"- \\" long, i"-ii" wide, rounded at the base, strongly nerved on both faces, spreading or reflexed at ma- turity, abruptly tipped with a stout, rough 2-toothed beak less than half as long as the body, the margins sometimes incurved; scales acutish to acute, shorter than the perigynia. In swamps, near the coast, Newfoundland to Florida and Texas. Also very rarely inland in Quebec, Maine, New York and Pennsylvania, according to Fernald. 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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