. 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. 3§4 CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. Carex hormathodes Fernald. Marsh Straw Sedge. Fig. 938. C. straminea var. invisa W. Boott, Coult. Bot. Gaz. g: 86. 1884. C. tenera var. Richii Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 27: 475. 1902. C. hormathodes Fernald, Rhodora 8: 165. 1906. Culms very slender, erect or the summit nodding, slightly angled and often strongly roughened above, i°-3° hig
. 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. 3§4 CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. Carex hormathodes Fernald. Marsh Straw Sedge. Fig. 938. C. straminea var. invisa W. Boott, Coult. Bot. Gaz. g: 86. 1884. C. tenera var. Richii Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 27: 475. 1902. C. hormathodes Fernald, Rhodora 8: 165. 1906. Culms very slender, erect or the summit nodding, slightly angled and often strongly roughened above, i°-3° high. Leaves shorter than the culm, usually less than 1" wide, tapering to a very long tip; bracts, when present, very narrow and bristle-form; spikes 3-9, ovoid, obtuse or short-pointed, densely many- flowered, separated or the upper contiguous, forming a slender moniliform head, greenish brown or brown at maturity, 3i"-8" long, staminate and commonly much contracted at the base; perigynia narrowly to broadly ovate, ascending, or with somewhat spreading tips, 2" to nearly 3" long, i"-ij" wide, strongly about 10-nerved on both faces, wing-margined, the rough beak about half as long as the body; scales lanceolate, long-acuminate or aristate, nearly as long as the peri- gynia, but much narrower; stigmas 2. In wet soil, chiefly near coast, Gulf of St. Lawrence to Virginia, locally inland to Ontario and recorded from Iowa; also on Pacific coast. May-June. Illustrated in our first edition as C. tenera Fig- 939- 72. Carex suberecta (Olney) Britton. Prairie Straw Sedge. C. foenea var. ferruginea Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 580. 1867. Not C. ferruginea Scop. C. tenera var. suberecta Olney ; Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 149 (as synonym). 1889. C. suberecta Britton, Man. Ed. 2, 1057. 1905. Culms erect, slender, acutely triangular and strongly roughened, 2°-3° high. Leaves i"-ij" wide, shorter than the culm; lower one or two bracts usually de- v
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