. 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. 391 92. Carex caryophyllea Latourrette. Vernal Sedge. Fig. 959. Carex praecox Jacq. Fl. Austr. 5: 23. pi. 446. 1778. Not Schreb. 1771. Carex caryophyllea Latourrette, Chlor. Lugdun, 27. 1785. Carex verna Chaix, in Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 2: 204. 1787. Dark green, stoloniferous, culms phyllopodic, erect or reclining, smooth, 3'-i2' long. L
. 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. 391 92. Carex caryophyllea Latourrette. Vernal Sedge. Fig. 959. Carex praecox Jacq. Fl. Austr. 5: 23. pi. 446. 1778. Not Schreb. 1771. Carex caryophyllea Latourrette, Chlor. Lugdun, 27. 1785. Carex verna Chaix, in Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 2: 204. 1787. Dark green, stoloniferous, culms phyllopodic, erect or reclining, smooth, 3'-i2' long. Leaves i '-ii" wide, clustered near base and shorter than the culm; lower bract subulate, i'-i' long, very short sheathing; stami- nate spike sessile or very short-stalked, usually large and conspicuous; pistillate spikes 1-3, close together or slightly separate, oblong, 5-20-flowered, 3"-6" long, 2"~3" in diameter, sessile or the lower short-stalked; perigynia obovoid, sharply 3-angled, short-pubescent, brown, about ii" long, abruptly acute, tapering at base; scales ovate, brownish with a lighter center, cuspidate or the lower rough-awned, about equalling the peri- gynia. Maine to District of Columbia, locally naturalized from Europe. Native also of Asia. Pink-grass, Iron-grass. May- June. g3. Carex communis Bailey. Fibrous-rooted Sedge C. varia var. pedicellata Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 11: Carex communis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 41. 1889. Carex communis var. Wheeleri Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 41. 1889. Carex pedicellata Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 87. 1894. Carex pedicellata var. Wheeleri Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 88. 1894. Light green, not stoloniferous, fibrous-rooted, culms usually well-developed, slender, aphyllopodic, roughish above, erect or reclining, 6'-2o' long. Leaves i"-a" wide, shorter than the culms; lower bract narrowly linear or subulate, J'-2' long; staminate spike 2"-i2" long, from sessile to strongly pedun
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