. 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. 123. Carex laxiculmis Schwein. Spreading Sedge. Fig. Carex laxiculmis Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i: 70. 18: Carex retrocurva Dewey, Wood's Bot. 423. 1845. Carex digitalis copulata Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 47. 1S89. Glabrous, varying from strongly glaucous to deep green, culms filiform, smooth or very nearly so, ascend- ing or diffuse, 6'-2° long. Sterile
. 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. 123. Carex laxiculmis Schwein. Spreading Sedge. Fig. Carex laxiculmis Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i: 70. 18: Carex retrocurva Dewey, Wood's Bot. 423. 1845. Carex digitalis copulata Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 47. 1S89. Glabrous, varying from strongly glaucous to deep green, culms filiform, smooth or very nearly so, ascend- ing or diffuse, 6'-2° long. Sterile culm-leaves elongated, 2"-6" wide, those of fertile culms shorter than the culms; bracts similar, usually short; staminate spike long-stalked; pistillate spikes 2-4, oblong, rather loosely 5-10-flowered, 3"-6" long, about 2" thick, drooping on long hair-like stalks or the upper short-stalked and erect; perigynia broadly ovoid-oblong, sharply 3-angled, many-nerved, ii"-2" long and rather more than i" thick, narrowed at both ends, but scarcely beaked, longer than the ovate, green, cuspidate or short-awned scales; stigmas 3. In woods and thickets, Maine to southern Ontario, Mich- igan, Virginia and Missouri. Ascends to 5600 ft. in Vir- ginia. May-June. 124. Carex albursina Sheldon. White Bear Sedge. Fig. 991. Carex laxiflora var. latifolia Boott, 111. 38. -1858. Not C. latifolia Moench, 1794. Carex albursina Sheldon, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 284. 1893. Glabrous, rather deep green, culms nearly smooth, strongly flattened and winged, erect or spreading, 8'-2° high. Basal leaves shorter than the culm, 3i"-ii' wide; bracts similar to the narrower culm-leaves, the upper strongly overtopping the spikes, sheaths loose; staminate spike sessile or nearly so, the scales obtuse; pistillate spikes 2-4, distant and narrowly linear, stalked, or the upper sessile and close together, i'-ii' long, loosely flowered; perigynia obovoid, obtusely 3-angled, ma
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