. 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. 437. 230. Carex Schweinitzii Dewey. Schweinitz's Sedge. Fig. 1097. Carex Schweinitzii Dewey; Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1:71. 1824. Glabrous, light green, culm erect, roughish above, ic-2i° tall, from long-creeping rootstocks. Leaves elongated, 2i"-s" wide, the lower ones and the similar bracts commonly overtopping the culm, thos
. 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. 437. 230. Carex Schweinitzii Dewey. Schweinitz's Sedge. Fig. 1097. Carex Schweinitzii Dewey; Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1:71. 1824. Glabrous, light green, culm erect, roughish above, ic-2i° tall, from long-creeping rootstocks. Leaves elongated, 2i"-s" wide, the lower ones and the similar bracts commonly overtopping the culm, those of the culm mostly shorter; staminate spike solitary or sometimes 2, slender-peduncled, the scales scarcely awned; pistillate spikes 2-5, ascending, linear-cylin- dric, not very densely flowered, ii'-3i' long, about 4"-7" thick, the upper usually sessile, the lower stalked; perigynia light green, thin, somewhat in- flated, ovoid-conic or oblong, contracted into the sub- ulate, 2-toothed beak, 2V-34" long and 1" in diam- eter, ascending, rather prominently several-nerved, equalling or the upper longer than the broad-based, somewhat rough-awned or scabrous scale; stigmas 3. In swamps and bogs, Vermont to Ontario, south to Connecticut, New Jersey and Missouri. June-Aug. 231. Carex hystricina Muhl. Porcupine Sedge. Fig. 1098. Carex hystricina Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 282. 1805. C. Cooleyi Dew. Am. Journ. Sci. 48: 144. 1845. C. hystricina Dudleyi Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 54. 1889. Caespitose, glabrous, light green, culms slender, erect, rough above, i°-3° tall, strongly reddened and occasionally scabrous on lower sheaths. Leaves elongated, scabrous, ii"-4" wide, the upper and the similar bracts overtopping the culm; staminate spike slender-stalked, the scales rough- awned; pistillate spikes 1-4, oblong or oblong-cylindric, densely many-flowered, ¥-2$' long, s"-7" in diameter, the upper sessile or nearly so, the lower slender-stalked an
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