. 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. 24. Carex sparganioides Muhl. Sedge. Fig. 891. C. sparganioides Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 237. 1805. Rather dark green with white and green mottled sheaths, culms stout or slender, rough above, sharply 3-angled, i0~3° tall. Leaves broad and flat, 2i"-s" wide, usually shorter than the culm, their lower part septate-nodulose as are the loose membranous t
. 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. 24. Carex sparganioides Muhl. Sedge. Fig. 891. C. sparganioides Muhl.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 237. 1805. Rather dark green with white and green mottled sheaths, culms stout or slender, rough above, sharply 3-angled, i0~3° tall. Leaves broad and flat, 2i"-s" wide, usually shorter than the culm, their lower part septate-nodulose as are the loose membranous trans- versely rugulose sheaths; spikes 6-12, deep green, oblong or subglobose, 2i"~4" in diameter, 15-50- flowered, the upper aggregated, the lower 2-4 com- monly separated, the lower bracts developed; peri- gynia flat, ovate, i§" long, 1" wide, spreading or radiating, narrowly wing-margined to the rounded base, faintly few-nerved on the outer face, the rough 2-toothed beak one-half the length of the body; scales ovate, hyaline, acute or cuspidate, equalling body of perigynia; stigmas 2. In woods and thickets, New Hampshire to Ontario and Michigan, south to Virginia, Kentucky and Kansas. Ascends to 2100 ft. in Virginia. June-Aug. 23. Carex aggregata Mackenzie. Glomerate Sedge. Fig. 890. Carex agglomerata Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 33: 442. 1906. Not C. B. Clarke, 1903. Carex aggregata Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 37: 246. 1910. Culms slender, erect, triangular, rough beneath head only, 2° or less tall. Leaves ii"-2" wide, shorter than the culm; bracts bristle-form, elongated but shorter than the head; spikes numerous, an- drogynous, ovoid or subglobose, densely aggregated, even the lowest but slightly separate, the head I2"-i8" long, 5" thick; perigynia ascending or spreading, a little more than ii" long, the body ovate, 1" wide, nerved on outer, nerveless on inner face, tapering into a 2-toothed beak about length of bod
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