. 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. 4H CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 161. Carex complanata Torr. Hirsute Sedge. Fig. 1028. Carex triceps Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 170. 1803. Not Schrank. 1789. Carex hirsuta Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 1805. Not Suter, 1802. Carex complanata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 408^ 1836. Carex triceps var. hirsuta Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 35. 1889. Light green, culms slender, rough above,
. 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. 4H CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 161. Carex complanata Torr. Hirsute Sedge. Fig. 1028. Carex triceps Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 170. 1803. Not Schrank. 1789. Carex hirsuta Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 1805. Not Suter, 1802. Carex complanata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 408^ 1836. Carex triceps var. hirsuta Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 35. 1889. Light green, culms slender, rough above, erect or re- clining, 6'-3° high. Leaves i"-z" wide, pubescent, at least on the sheaths, shorter than the culm, the lower bract similar, much exceeding the culm; spikes 2-5, oblong or oblong-cylindric, dense, erect, sessile or very nearly so, 3"-9" long, 2V-3V in diameter, usually clustered at the summit, the terminal one gynaecan- drous; perigynia oval or obovoid, flattened, not inflated, green or greenish-brown, lightly nerved, imbricated, slightly pubescent when young, glabrous when mature, 1" long, beakless and very rounded at apex, the orifice entire; scales ovate, scarious-margined, short-cuspidate to obtuse, rather shorter than the perigynia; achene elliptic-obovoid, its summit straight, but style often short-bent; stigmas 3. In woods, fields and swamps, Maine to southern Ontario and Michigan, south to Florida and Texas. Ascends to 2500 ft. in Virginia. 162. Carex caroliniana Schwein. Sedge. Fig. 1029. Carolina Carex carolinana Schwein. Ann. Lye. i: 67. 1824. Carex Smithii Porter; Olney, Car. Bor. Am. 2, name only. 1871. Not Tausch. 1821. C. triceps var. Smithii Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 13: 88. 1888. Culms very slender, erect, rough above, \°-2.\° tall. Leaves i"-i4" wide, rather dark green, glabrous, ex- cept on the sheaths, the upper and the similar but nar- rower bracts usually much overtopping the spikes; spikes 2-4, oblong
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