. 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. Maine Fig. 1084. Man. Ed. 5, 602. 1867. Not Carex pulla A. Gray, Gooden. 1797. Carex miliaris var. aurea Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 37. 1889. Not C. aurea Nutt. 1818. Carex mainensis Porter; Britton, Manual 193. 1901. Culms slender, smooth below inflorescence, little filamentose at base, i4°-3° tall, the plant stolonifer- ous. Leaves i"-ii" wi
. 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. Maine Fig. 1084. Man. Ed. 5, 602. 1867. Not Carex pulla A. Gray, Gooden. 1797. Carex miliaris var. aurea Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 37. 1889. Not C. aurea Nutt. 1818. Carex mainensis Porter; Britton, Manual 193. 1901. Culms slender, smooth below inflorescence, little filamentose at base, i4°-3° tall, the plant stolonifer- ous. Leaves i"-ii" wide, flat, shorter than the culm, somewhat nodulose and scabrous on the margins, the lower bracts narrower, about equalling the culm; staminate spikes 1-4, slender-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3, erect, cylindric, 6"-is" long, 3"-4" wide, sessile or the lower short-stalked; perigynia about 2'Mong, oblong-ovoid, yellowish-green, few-nerved, slightly inflated, contracted into a rather conspicuous 2-toothed beak; scales lanceolate, acute or acuminate, yellow- ish or brown-margined, slightly shorter than the peri- gynia; stigmas 2 or 3. On lake and river shores, central Maine to Labrador. Possibly a hybrid between C. miliaris and C. vesicaria. Illustrated as Carex Raeana in first edition. 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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