. 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. 185. Carex Goodenowii J. Gay. Goodenough's Sedge. Fig. 1052. Carex caespitosa Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 195. pi. 21. 1794. Not L. 1753. C. Goodenowii J. Gay, Ann. Sci. Nat. (II.) 11: 191. 1839. Carex vulgaris E. Fries, Mant. 3: 153. 1842. Carex vulgaris, var. strictiformis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 74. 1889. Glabrous, culms stiff, erect, sharp-angled, smoot
. 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. 185. Carex Goodenowii J. Gay. Goodenough's Sedge. Fig. 1052. Carex caespitosa Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 195. pi. 21. 1794. Not L. 1753. C. Goodenowii J. Gay, Ann. Sci. Nat. (II.) 11: 191. 1839. Carex vulgaris E. Fries, Mant. 3: 153. 1842. Carex vulgaris, var. strictiformis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 74. 1889. Glabrous, culms stiff, erect, sharp-angled, smooth or sometimes rough above, i°-3° tall, phyllopodic, strongly stoloniferous. Leaves elongated, glaucous, 1 "-2" wide, not exceeding the culm, the margins involute in drying; lower bracts usually foliaceous, sometimes _ equalling the culm; staminate spike stalked; pistillate spikes 2-4, all sessile or nearly so, erect, densely many-flowered, narrowly cylindric, 2"- in diameter, s"-2o" long; perigynia flattened, broadly oval or ovate, finely nerved, green or dark- tinged, appressed, ii" long, minutely beaked, the orifice nearly entire; scales purple-brown to black with a slender green midvein, very obtuse (except lower), shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 2. In wet grounds, Newfoundland to Massachusetts; Penn- sylvania. Europe and Asia. Tufted or Common sedge. Torrets or Turrets. Stare or Star. June-Aug. 186. Carex lenticularis Michx. Lenticular Sedge. Fig. 1053. Carex lenticularis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 172. 1803. Glabrous, pale green, culms very slender, erect, sharp-angled, slightly rough above, i°-2° tall, phyllo- podic, densely caespitose, not stoloniferous. Leaves elongated, rarely over 1" wide, shorter than or rarely overtopping the culm, slightly rough-margined, their sheaths not fibrillose; lower bracts similar to the leaves, more or less sheathing,_ usually much overtopping the spikes; staminate spikes solitary or rarely 2, se
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