. 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. 43§ CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 233. Carex comosa Boott. Bristly Sedge. Fig. C. furcata Ell. Bot. S. C. and Ga. 2: 552. 1824. Not Lapeyr. 1813. Carex comosa Boott, Trans. Linn. Soc. 20: 117. 1846. Carex Pseudo-Cyperus var. comosa Boott, 111 Car. 4: 141. 1867. Carex Pseudo-Cyperus var. americana Hochst.; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 54. 1889. Similar to the precedi
. 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. 43§ CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 233. Carex comosa Boott. Bristly Sedge. Fig. C. furcata Ell. Bot. S. C. and Ga. 2: 552. 1824. Not Lapeyr. 1813. Carex comosa Boott, Trans. Linn. Soc. 20: 117. 1846. Carex Pseudo-Cyperus var. comosa Boott, 111 Car. 4: 141. 1867. Carex Pseudo-Cyperus var. americana Hochst.; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 54. 1889. Similar to the preceding species, culms commonly stouter, sometimes 5° high, the leaves 3"-/' wide. Staminate spike short-stalked, the scales rough- awned; pistillate spikes 2-6, usually 3-5, stalked or the uppermost nearly sessile, all spreading or droop- ing, stouter and bristly, 6"-7" in diameter; perigynia lanceolate, rigid, scarcely inflated, somewhat flattened and triangular, strongly reflexed when mature, short- stipitate, tapering into a slender, prominently 2-toothed beak, the teeth subulate and recurved- spreading; scales mostly shorter than the perigynia, very rough-awned; stigmas 3. In swamps and along the borders of ponds, Nova Scotia to Washington, south to Florida, Louisiana and California. May-Oct. 234. Carex Frankii Kunth. Frank's Sedge. Fig. 1101. Carex stenolepis Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 420. 1836. Not Less. 1831. Carex Frankii Kunth, Enum. 2: 498. 1837. Glabrous, much tufted, culms stout, smooth, erect, very leafy, i°-2h° tall. Leaves elongated, roughish, ii"-4" wide, the upper ones and especially the similar bracts overtopping the culm; staminate spike stalked or nearly sessile, occasionally pistillate at the summit, often small and inconspicuous; pistillate spikes 3-6, exceedingly dense, cylindric, erect, i'-l¥ long, about 4" in diameter, the upper nearly or quite sessile, the lower slender-stalked; perigynia green, slightly inflated, 2"
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