. 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. Carex abbreviata Prescott. Torrey's Sedge. Fig. Carex Torreyi Tuckerm. Enum. Meth. 21. 1843. .Not C. Torreyana Schwein. 1824. Carex abbreviata Prescott; Boott, Trans. Linn. Soc. 20 : 141. 1846. Pale green, culms slender", rather stiff, erect, io'-2o' tall, finely pubescent. Leaves l"-ii" wide, usually shorter than culm, rather densely shor
. 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. Carex abbreviata Prescott. Torrey's Sedge. Fig. Carex Torreyi Tuckerm. Enum. Meth. 21. 1843. .Not C. Torreyana Schwein. 1824. Carex abbreviata Prescott; Boott, Trans. Linn. Soc. 20 : 141. 1846. Pale green, culms slender", rather stiff, erect, io'-2o' tall, finely pubescent. Leaves l"-ii" wide, usually shorter than culm, rather densely short-pubescent; lower bract shorter or longer than spikes; staminate spike solitary, usually short-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3, short-oblong, dense, 3"-8" long, about 3" thick, sessile or short-stalked, erect, clustered; perigynia obovoid, somewhat inflated and rather obscurely tri- angular, glabrous, ij"-ii" long and slightly more than 1" thick, strongly many-nerved, depressed at apex and abruptly tipped by a short entire beak; scales ovate, acute to cuspidate, shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. In dry soil, Minnesota to Saskatchewan, south in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado. Reported from New York and Pennsylvania. June-July. 166. Carex glauca Murr. Heath-sedge. Fig. 1033. Carex glauca Murr. Prodr. Stirn. Gotting. 76. 1770. Carex flacca Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips. App. 669. 1771. Glabrous, pale green and glaucous, culms slender, erect, smooth or roughish above, l°-2° 'tall, the root- stocks long and stout. Leaves usually shorter than the culm, ii"-2i" wide, the sheaths scabrous; lower bract similar to the leaves, but narrower; staminate spikes mostly 1-1J' long, stalked; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, ascending or at length drooping, slender-stalked, linear- cylindric, i'-ss' long, 3"-4" thick, densely many-flowered, commonly staminate at the summit; perigynia brown, ellipsoid, faintly few-nerved, or nerveless, minutely granulate
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