. 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. 33i. 62. Carex cristatella Britton. Crested Sedge. Fig. 929. Carex cristata Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i : 66. 1824. Not Clairv. 1811. Carex tribuloides var. cristata Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 148. 1886. Carex cristatella Britton; Brit. & Br. 111. Fl. 1 : 357. 1896. Culms rather stout, i°-3° tall, stiff, erect, roughish above, longer
. 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. 33i. 62. Carex cristatella Britton. Crested Sedge. Fig. 929. Carex cristata Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i : 66. 1824. Not Clairv. 1811. Carex tribuloides var. cristata Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 148. 1886. Carex cristatella Britton; Brit. & Br. 111. Fl. 1 : 357. 1896. Culms rather stout, i°-3° tall, stiff, erect, roughish above, longer than the leaves. Leaves il"_3i" wide, those of sterile shoots numerous, spreading, the sheaths loose; lower bracts bristle-form, J'-ii' long; heads 6-15, globose or subglobose, 2"-^" in diameter, all densely aggregated into an oblong head 1' long or more or the lower slightly separated; staminate flow- ers basal; perigynia rather broadly lanceolate, dis- tended over achene, spreading or ascending, squar- rose when mature, green or greenish brown, iJ"-2" long, I" wide, narrowly wing-margined, several- nerved on both faces, tapering into a serrulate 2-toothed beak; scales lanceolate, straw-colored, much shorter than the perigynia; achenes J" long. In meadows and thickets, eastern Massachusetts to British Columbia, south to Virginia and Missouri. July- Sept. 63. Carex projecta Mackenzie. Necklace Sedge. Fig. 930. C. tribuloides var. reducta Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 148. 1886. C. tribuloides moniliformis Britton ; Brit. & Br. 111. Fl. 1: 356. 1896. C. projecta Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 264. 1908. Culms erect, triangular and roughened above, slender and weak, i*°-3° high, in large clumps. Sterile culms leafy; leaves with long loose sheaths, blades li"-3i" wide, shorter than culm; lower bracts inconspicuous; spikes 8-15, straw-colored, with 15-30 perigynia, suborbicular, blunt, clavate at base, 2i"~4" long,
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