. 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 crinita Lam. Fringed Sedge. Sickle-grass. Fig. Carex crinita Lam. Encycl. 3: 393. 1789. Carex crinita var. minor Boott, 111. Car. 1:18. 1858. Glabrous, culms stout, 3-angled, aphyllopodic and filamentous at base, rough or very nearly smooth, erect or somewhat recurving, 2°-5° tall, from stout rootstocks. Leaves flat, rough-margined, ii"-5"
. 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 crinita Lam. Fringed Sedge. Sickle-grass. Fig. Carex crinita Lam. Encycl. 3: 393. 1789. Carex crinita var. minor Boott, 111. Car. 1:18. 1858. Glabrous, culms stout, 3-angled, aphyllopodic and filamentous at base, rough or very nearly smooth, erect or somewhat recurving, 2°-5° tall, from stout rootstocks. Leaves flat, rough-margined, ii"-5" wide, the upper sometimes overtopping the culm, the lowest very short and sheathing; staminate spikes 1 or 2, stalked, often pistillate at the base or in the middle; pistillate spikes 2-6, narrowly cylindric, densely very many-flowered, \'-\Y long, 3"-6" in diameter, all stalked, drooping and commonly secund ; perigynia suborbicular or broadly obovoid, spreading, obtuse, i"-lf" long, i"-i" wide, slightly inflated, the walls thin, nerveless, abruptly tipped by the very- short entire beak; scales abruptly long rough-cuspi- date, the outer 1-3-ribbed and the body brownish- tinged, spreading, 2-6 times as long as the perigynia; stigmas 2. In swamps and wet woods, Newfoundland to Minne- sota, south to Florida and Texas. June-Aug. ig6. Carex lacustris Willd. Lake-bank Sedge Carex lacustris Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 306. 1805. Carex riparia Muhl. Descr. Gram. 259. 1817. Not Curtis, 1783. Culms generally stout and smooth, erect, 20-3$° tall, strongly purplish-tinged and filamentose at base, the lower sheaths not blade-bearing. Leaves elongated, nodulose, usually more or less scabrous, somewhat glau- cous, 2i"-6" wide, usually exceeding the culm; lower bract similar to the leaves, the upper reduced; staminate spikes 1-5, linear; pistillate spikes 2-5, cylindric, i¥-4,' long, about 5" in diameter, the upper erect, sessile or nearly so, the lowe
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