. 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. 398 CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 113. Carex Meadii Dewey. Mead's Sedge. Fig. 980. 1 Carex Meadii Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 43 : 90. 1842. Carex tetanica var. Meadii Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 118. 1886. Carex tetanica var. Carteri Porter, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1887: 76. 1887. Carex tetanica var. Canbyi Porter, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1887: 76. 1887. Similar to the following speci
. 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. 398 CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 113. Carex Meadii Dewey. Mead's Sedge. Fig. 980. 1 Carex Meadii Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 43 : 90. 1842. Carex tetanica var. Meadii Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 118. 1886. Carex tetanica var. Carteri Porter, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1887: 76. 1887. Carex tetanica var. Canbyi Porter, Proc. Acad. Phila. 1887: 76. 1887. Similar to the following species, glabrous, culm stouter, strongly phyllopodic, not purplish-tinged, very rough above, 8'-i8' tall. Rootstocks elongated, deep- seated, slender; leaves flat, those of the fertile culm usually 6-10, iV'si" wide; bracts short, not overtop- ping the spikes; staminate spike long-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3, sometimes staminate at the summit, rarely compound at the base, oblong-cylindric, densely 8-30- flowered, ¥-i¥ long, about 3" in diameter, erect, stalked, or the upper one sessile, the lower often very long-stalked; perigynia obovoid, obtusely triangular, prominently many-nerved, green, i\" long, about 1" in diameter, tipped with a minute slightly bent beak; scales ovate, green with reddish-brown or purple-brown mar- gins, obtuse to cuspidate, and from much shorter than to exceeding perigynia; stigmas 3. In swamps and wet meadows, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to Georgia, Michigan, Assiniboia, Nebraska and Arkansas. 114. Carex tetanica Schk. Wood's Sedge C. tetanica Schk. Riedgr. Nachtr. 68. figs. 100, 207. 1806, Carex tetanica var. Woodii Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 53. 1889. Light green and glabrous, or sheaths slightly puberu- lent, culms slender, more or less strongly phyllopodic, not strongly purplish-tinged at , erect, rough above, 6'-2° tall. Rootstocks elongated, deep-seated, white, slender; leaves flat, those of the fertile culm
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