. 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. Carex gracillima Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1: 66. 1824. Carex gracillima var. hmnilis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club I: 71. 1889. Glabrous, culms slender, erect, smooth or nearly so, i°-3° high. Leaves dark green, ii"-^h" wide, shorter than the culm, the basal ones wider than the upper; lower bract foliaceous, sometimes overtop- ping the spikes; spikes 3-5, n
. 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. Carex gracillima Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1: 66. 1824. Carex gracillima var. hmnilis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club I: 71. 1889. Glabrous, culms slender, erect, smooth or nearly so, i°-3° high. Leaves dark green, ii"-^h" wide, shorter than the culm, the basal ones wider than the upper; lower bract foliaceous, sometimes overtop- ping the spikes; spikes 3-5, narrowly cylindric, usu- ally densely flowered except at the base, i'-2$' long, about 1 J" thick, or sometimes much reduced, filiform- stalked and drooping or ascending, the upper one partly or wholly staminate; perigynia ovoid-oblong, slightly swollen, few-nerved, glabrous, ii" long or less, rounded at apex, beakless; scales thin, ovate- oblong, very obtuse or the lower cuspidate, pale, scarious-margined, one-half as long as the perigynia or lower nearly as long; stigmas 3. In moist woods and meadows, Newfoundland to Mani- toba, North Carolina, Ohio and Michigan. May-July. A hybrid with C. complanata occurs at Philipstown, Put- nam County, N. Y. Carex Sullivantii Boott, is a hybrid with C. hirtifolia, found in Ohio, New York and Delaware. 142. Carex prasina Wahl. Drooping Sedge. Fig. 1009. Carex prasina Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (II.) 24: 161. 1803. Carex miliacea Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 29-0. 1805. Glabrous, rather light green, culms slender, slightly roughened above, sharply 3-angled, l°-2i° high. Leaves shorter than or equalling the culm, flaccid, roughish, i£"-2i" wide; lower bract similar, short- |l sheathing, commonly overtopping the spikes; staminate / N. spike solitary, stalked, sometimes partly pistillate; pis- / \ tillate spikes 2 to 4, narrowly linear-cylindric, drooping, / \ the lower filiform-stalked, the upper short-stalked, i'-| 2*'
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