. 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. 152. Carex assiniboinensis W. Boott. Assini- boia Sedge. Fig. 1019. C. assiniboinensis W. Boott, Bot. Gaz. g: 91. 1884. Glabrous and nearly smooth, culms slender, weak, aphyllopodic, l°-2i° high, longer than the leaves, strongly reddened at base. Leaves and bracts l"-i' wide, the bracts sheathing; staminate spike long- stalked; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, wi
. 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. 152. Carex assiniboinensis W. Boott. Assini- boia Sedge. Fig. 1019. C. assiniboinensis W. Boott, Bot. Gaz. g: 91. 1884. Glabrous and nearly smooth, culms slender, weak, aphyllopodic, l°-2i° high, longer than the leaves, strongly reddened at base. Leaves and bracts l"-i' wide, the bracts sheathing; staminate spike long- stalked; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, widely separate, loosely and alternately 1-8-flowered, 4"-!$" long, drooping on filiform stalks or upper erect; perigynia very narrowly lanceolate, appressed, obtusely 3-angled, subulate- beaked above, 3" long and 1" thick above the base, densely short-tuberculate-hispid, the beak obliquely cut at orifice; scales lanceolate, scarious-margined, short- awned, nearly the length of the perigynia; stigmas 3. In wet soil, northern Minnesota, North Dakota and Manitoba. May-July. 153. Carex castanea Wahl. Chestnut Sedge. Fig. 1020. Carex castanea Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (II.) 24: 155- '803. Carex flexilis Rudge, Trans. Linn. Soc. 7: 98. pi. 10. 1804. Culms slender, erect, rough above, I "-3° tall, reddish- purple at base. Leaves ii"—3" wide, pubescent, shorter than the culm; bracts linear-filiform, ¥-i¥ long; stami- nate spike short-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-4, approxi- mate, oblong or oblong-cylindric, many-flowered, ¥-1' long, about 3" thick, drooping on filiform stalks, or upper spreading; perigynia glabrous, pale brown, as- cending, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, slightly inflated, 3-angled, few-nerved, tapering gradually into a minutely 2-toothed beak one-half as long as the body; scales • light chestnut, thin, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or cuspidate, lacerate or entire, rather shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. In
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