. 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. Georgia, Ohio and Nebraska. 94. Carex pennsylvanica Lam. Pennsylvania Sedge. Fig. 961. Carex pennsylvanica Encycl. 3: 388. 1789. Strongly stoloniferous, culms .slender but strict, erect, smoothish to very rough, 3'-is' tall. Leaves i"-ij" wide, the basal shorter than or sometimes exceeding the culm, the old sheaths persistent and fibrillose; low
. 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. Georgia, Ohio and Nebraska. 94. Carex pennsylvanica Lam. Pennsylvania Sedge. Fig. 961. Carex pennsylvanica Encycl. 3: 388. 1789. Strongly stoloniferous, culms .slender but strict, erect, smoothish to very rough, 3'-is' tall. Leaves i"-ij" wide, the basal shorter than or sometimes exceeding the culm, the old sheaths persistent and fibrillose; lower bract subulate or scale-like, rarely over ¥ long; staminate spike sessile or very short-stalked, i'-l' long; pistillate spikes 1-4, short- oblong, 4-20-flowered, sessile, contiguous or the lower some- what distant; perigynia broadly obovoid, about 1" long and more than i" in diameter, short-pubescent, to nearly glab- rous, i-ribbed on two sides, strongly narrowed at the base, tipped with a more or less bidentate beak from one-fourth the length of to as long as the body; scales ovate, purplish, acute or cuspidate, equalling or a little longer than the peri- gynia; stigmas 3. In dry soil, New Brunswick to North Dakota, North Carolina and Tennessee. Very variable. Ascends to 5000 ft. in North Carolina. May-June. Carex heliophila Mackenzie, of prairies and plains from Illinois to Alberta and New Mexico, differs by larger perigynia, 1" wide, circular (not triangular) in 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
Size: 1320px × 1894px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectbotany, bookyear1913
