. 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. Carex acutiformis Ehrh. Beitr. 4: 43. 1789- C. paludosa Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 202. 1794- Culms stout, erect, sharp-angled, 2°-3° tall, smooth below, often rough above. Leaves 2*"-6" wide, flat, glaucous-green, equalling or sometimes exceeding the culm; lower bracts similar to the leaves, the upper short and narrow; staminate spikes 1-4, stalked
. 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. Carex acutiformis Ehrh. Beitr. 4: 43. 1789- C. paludosa Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 202. 1794- Culms stout, erect, sharp-angled, 2°-3° tall, smooth below, often rough above. Leaves 2*"-6" wide, flat, glaucous-green, equalling or sometimes exceeding the culm; lower bracts similar to the leaves, the upper short and narrow; staminate spikes 1-4, stalked; pistillate spikes 3-5, narrowly linear-cylin- dric, i4'-3' long, a"-2i" thick, 40-100-flowered, the upper sessile or nearly so and erect, the others slender-stalked, spreading or drooping; perigynia ovoid, i4"-il" long, not inflated, strongly many- nerved, tapering into a very short and minutely 2- toothed beak; scales awn-tipped or acuminate, longer than the perigynia or the upper equalling them; stig- mas 3. In swamps and wet meadows, eastern Massachusetts, •very locally naturalized from Europe. Lesser common sedge. Sniddle. June-Aug. 181. Carex stricta Lam. Tussock Sedge. Fig. 1048. Carex stricta Lam. Encycl. 3: 387. 1789. C. stricta angustata Bailey, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 600. 1890. C. xerocarpa S. H. Wright, Am. Journ. Sci. (II.) 42: 334. 1866. Glabrous, rather dark green, culms slender, aphyllo- podic, stiff, erect, usually in dense clumps, sharply 3-angled and very rough above, i°-4° tall; stolons little developed. Leaves long, rarely overtopping the culm, very rough on the margins, i"-2-" wide, the lower sheaths becoming prominently filamentose; lower bract similar, sometimes equalling the culm; staminate spike solitary, or sometimes 2, stalked; pistillate spikes 2-5, very vari- able, linear-cylindric, or sometimes linear-oblong, often staminate at the top, very densely flowered, or loose at the base, ¥-4' long, i"-2" t
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