. 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. 376 CYPERACEAE. Vol. 47. Carex Deweyana Schwein. Dewey's Sedge. Fig. 914. Carex Deweyana Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i: 65. 1824. Pale green, culms densely caespitose, slender, spreading, slightly angled above, 6'~3° long. Leaves i"-2i" wide, flat, soft, shorter than the culm; bracts bristle-form, the lower commonly elongated; spikes 2-7, gynaecandro
. 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. 376 CYPERACEAE. Vol. 47. Carex Deweyana Schwein. Dewey's Sedge. Fig. 914. Carex Deweyana Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i: 65. 1824. Pale green, culms densely caespitose, slender, spreading, slightly angled above, 6'~3° long. Leaves i"-2i" wide, flat, soft, shorter than the culm; bracts bristle-form, the lower commonly elongated; spikes 2-7, gynaecandrous, ovate-oblong or subglo- bose, 3-15-flowered, about 2.\" in diameter, sessile, distinctly separated or the upper ones contiguous; perigynia lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, nerveless or nearly so, corky at base, 2"-2i" long, sharply mar- gined above, \" wide, the inner face flat, the tapering rough strongly 2-toothed beak about one-half as long as the body; scales nearly white, hyaline with a green midvein, cuspidate or acuminate, equalling the perigynia, or shorter; achenes 1" long; stigmas 2. In dry woods, Nova Scotia to British Columbia and Vancouver, south to Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Mexico and Arizona. May-July. 48. Carex bromoides Schk. Brome-like Sedge. Fig. 915. C. bromoides Schk.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 258. 1805. Bright green, culms densely caespitose, slender, erect, very rough above, l°-2° high. Leaves 1" wide or less, flat, soft, equalling or shorter than the culm; bracts subulate or bristle-form, the lowest com- monly elongated, sometimes overtopping the spikes; spikes 3-7, narrowly oblong-cylindric, 3i"-cj" long, about i¥' thick, erect or ascending, mostly close together, loosely 6-15-flowered, the staminate flow- ers basal, or terminal, or both; perigynia narrowly lanceolate, little-margined above, firm, pale, notice- ably or strongly several-nerved, 2"-2l" long, 4" wide, corky at base, the inner face flat,
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