. 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. Genus 18. SEDGE FAMILY. 3S7 80. Carex aenea Fernald. Fernald's Hay Sedge. Fig. 947. Carex foenea var. sparsifiora Howe, Rep. N. Y. Mus. Nat. Hist. 48 : 44. 1895. Not C. sparsifiora Fries. Carex aenea Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 480. 1902. ' Culms slender, nodding, ii°-3° high, smooth except immediately below head. Leaves ii"-2" wide, shorter than the
. 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. Genus 18. SEDGE FAMILY. 3S7 80. Carex aenea Fernald. Fernald's Hay Sedge. Fig. 947. Carex foenea var. sparsifiora Howe, Rep. N. Y. Mus. Nat. Hist. 48 : 44. 1895. Not C. sparsifiora Fries. Carex aenea Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 480. 1902. ' Culms slender, nodding, ii°-3° high, smooth except immediately below head. Leaves ii"-2" wide, shorter than the culm; lower one or two bracts present but not conspicuous; spikes 3-12 in a moniliform or loose head ii'~3' long, all separate or upper aggregated, oblong, 3i"-i2" long, zY'-zV thick, rounded at apex, clavate at base, densely many-flowered; perigynia appressed- ascending, or loosely ascending in age, ovate, narrowly wing-margined, rounded at base, 2"-2i" long, i"-il" wide, tapering into a rough 2-toothed beak less than half the length of the nerveless or obscurely nerved body; scales ovate, acute or short-acuminate, white- hyaline with darker center, as wjde and as long as peri- gynia; stigmas 2. In dry places, Labrador to Connecticut, west to Michigan and British Columbia. 81. Carex foenea Willd. Hay Sedge. Fig. 948. Carex foenea Willd. Enum. 957. 1809. Carex argyrantha Tuckerm.; Wood, Class-book, 753. i860. Carex foenea var. perplexa Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 27. 1889. Rather light green, culm little roughened above, erect or the summit nodding, i°-3i° tall. Leaves flat, soft, i"-2" wide, shorter than the culm; bracts very short or wanting; inflorescence usually moniliform or flexuous, not stiff; spikes 4-1S, subglobose or short-oblong, narrowed at the base, z"-q" long, 2V-3" in diameter, silvery green, all sepa- rated or the upper contiguous; staminate flowers basal; perigynia ovate, thin, ii' -2k"
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