. 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. 420 CYPERACEAE. Vol. 180. Carex acutiformis Ehrh. Marsh Sedge. Fig. 1047 179. Carex glaucescens Ell. Southern Glaucous Sedge. Fig. 1046. Carex glaucescens Ell. Bot. S. C. and Ga. 2: 553. 1824. Glabrous, light green, glaucous, culms stout, phyllopodic, erect, somewhat roughened on the angles above, i4°-4° tall. Leaves 5-10 to a culm, flat or involute towards
. 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. 420 CYPERACEAE. Vol. 180. Carex acutiformis Ehrh. Marsh Sedge. Fig. 1047 179. Carex glaucescens Ell. Southern Glaucous Sedge. Fig. 1046. Carex glaucescens Ell. Bot. S. C. and Ga. 2: 553. 1824. Glabrous, light green, glaucous, culms stout, phyllopodic, erect, somewhat roughened on the angles above, i4°-4° tall. Leaves 5-10 to a culm, flat or involute towards base, rough, ii"-2i" wide, usually exceeded by the culm, long-tapering, the basal'sheaths strongly filamentose; lower bracts similar, shorter; staminate spike one, stalked, the scales strongly cuspidate; pistillate spikes 3-4, cylindric, dense, many-flowered, 1-2' long, 3V- 5" wide, slender-peduncled, at first erect, finely drooping; perigynia strongly glaucous, ascending, ovoid or obovoid, 3-angled, ii"-i|" long, 1" wide or more, obscurely nerved, tapering into a short beak with entire orifice; scales with obovate body, about length of perigynia, abruptly long-cuspidate, reddish-brown with green midrib, squarrose; stigmas 3. In swamps, Virginia to Florida and Mississippi. July-Sept. Swamp or A. 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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