. 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. 99. Carex Rossii Boott. Ross's Sedge. Fig. 966. C. Rossii Boott; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 222. 1840. Carex deflexa var. media Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 43. 1889. Not C. media R. Br. 1823. C. deflexa Farwellii Britton; Brit. & Br. 111. Fl. 1: 334. 1896. C. Farwellii Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 37: 244. 1910. Rootstocks slender, loosely branched and stolo- nif
. 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. 99. Carex Rossii Boott. Ross's Sedge. Fig. 966. C. Rossii Boott; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 222. 1840. Carex deflexa var. media Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 43. 1889. Not C. media R. Br. 1823. C. deflexa Farwellii Britton; Brit. & Br. 111. Fl. 1: 334. 1896. C. Farwellii Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 37: 244. 1910. Rootstocks slender, loosely branched and stolo- niferous; culms slender, erect, 8'-is' long, shorter than or little exceeding the leaves. Leaves about i' wide; lowest bract conspicuous, often exceed- ing inflorescence; staminate spike sessile or nearly so, 3"-6" long, conspicuous; pistillate spikes 2-3, 2j"-4" long, short-oblong, 3-10-flowered, sessile or short-peduncled, approximate or the lower separate, filiform-stalked; basal spikes conspicu- ous; perigynia oblong-obovoid, much narrowed at base, short-pubescent, 2" long, abruptly contracted into a bidentate beak from one-half length to nearly as long as the body; scales ovate, obtusish to short-cuspidate; stigmas 3. Dry soil, Michigan to British Columbia, Oregon, and south in the Rocky Mountains. June-July. 100. Carex nigro-marginata Schwein. Black- edged Sedge. Fig. 967. C. nigro-marginata Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i: 68. 1824. Bright green, stoloniferous, culms filiform, wiry, aphyllopodic, erect or spreading, 2'-8' long, very un- equal in length. Leaves i"-2" wide, very much longer than the culms, rather stiff, often 12' or more long; bracts very short and subulate or wanting; staminate spike sessile, inconspicuous, 2"-^" long; pistillate spikes 1-3, few-flowered, sessile at the base of the staminate, about 3" long; perigynia if" long, short-pubescent or nearly glabrous, the body oval, i" thick, stipitate, i-ribb
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