. 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 longirostris Torr.; Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i: 71. 1824. Not Krock. 1814. Carex Sprengelii Dewey; Spreng. Syst. 3: 827. 1826. Glabrous, light green, culms very slender, roughish above, erect, io'-3° high, strongly fibrillose at base. Leaves flat, slightly scabrous, ii' -2" wide, usually not exceeding the culm, the bracts similar, shorter, short- she
. 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 longirostris Torr.; Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i: 71. 1824. Not Krock. 1814. Carex Sprengelii Dewey; Spreng. Syst. 3: 827. 1826. Glabrous, light green, culms very slender, roughish above, erect, io'-3° high, strongly fibrillose at base. Leaves flat, slightly scabrous, ii' -2" wide, usually not exceeding the culm, the bracts similar, shorter, short- sheathing; staminate spikes 1-3, slender-stalked, rarely pistillate at the base; pistillate spikes 2-4, oblong- cylindric, 10-40-flowered, ¥-2' long, z"—$" in diameter, pendulous or erect, all filiform-stalked, or the upper one nearly sessile; perigynia ascending or somewhat spread- ing, the body li"-ii" long, smooth, short-oblong, slightly inflated, pale, strongly i-nerved on each side, contracted into a very slender beak once to twice its length, the beak obliquely cut, at length deeply biden- tate ; scales lanceolate, long-acuminate or acute, scarious- margined; stigmas 3. On banks and in moist thickets, New Brunswick to Alberta, south to Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylva- nia and Nebraska. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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