. 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. 127. Carex anceps Muhl. Two-edged Sedge. Fig. 994. C. anceps Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 278. 1805. C. anceps var. patulifolia Dewey, Wood's Bot. 423. 1845. C. laxiflora var. patulifolia Carey, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 524. 1856. C. laxiflora var. leptonervia Fernald, Rhodora 8 : 184. 1906. Glabrous, deep green, culms nearly smooth, often much flattened, loosely er
. 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. 127. Carex anceps Muhl. Two-edged Sedge. Fig. 994. C. anceps Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 278. 1805. C. anceps var. patulifolia Dewey, Wood's Bot. 423. 1845. C. laxiflora var. patulifolia Carey, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 524. 1856. C. laxiflora var. leptonervia Fernald, Rhodora 8 : 184. 1906. Glabrous, deep green, culms nearly smooth, often much flattened, loosely erect, 6-2° high. Lower leaves shorter than culm, 2}"-io" wide; bracts similar to nar- rower culm-leaves, the upper usually overtopping the spikes; staminate spike prominent, long- or short-stalked, the scales rarely reddish-brown tinged; pistillate spikes 2-4, loosely and alternately 5-15-flowered, distant and slenderly stalked or the upper approximate and short- stalked ; perigynia appressed-ascending, elliptic-obovoid, obtusely 3-angled, strongly nerved or nearly nerveless, iS" long, i" wide, tipped with a short straight or slightly oblique beak; scales ovate, scarious, the lower abruptly short-awned; stigmas 3. Woods, Newfoundland to Michigan, North Carolina and Tennessee. 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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