. 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. 180. Carex acutiformis Ehrh. Marsh Sedge. Fig. 1047 179. Carex glaucescens Ell. Southern Glaucous Sedge. Fig. 1046. Carex glaucescens Ell. Bot. S. C. and Ga. 2: 553. 1824. Glabrous, light green, glaucous, culms stout, phyllopodic, erect, somewhat roughened on the angles above, i4°-4° tall. Leaves 5-10 to a culm, flat or involute towards base, rough, ii"-2i
. 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. 180. Carex acutiformis Ehrh. Marsh Sedge. Fig. 1047 179. Carex glaucescens Ell. Southern Glaucous Sedge. Fig. 1046. Carex glaucescens Ell. Bot. S. C. and Ga. 2: 553. 1824. Glabrous, light green, glaucous, culms stout, phyllopodic, erect, somewhat roughened on the angles above, i4°-4° tall. Leaves 5-10 to a culm, flat or involute towards base, rough, ii"-2i" wide, usually exceeded by the culm, long-tapering, the basal'sheaths strongly filamentose; lower bracts similar, shorter; staminate spike one, stalked, the scales strongly cuspidate; pistillate spikes 3-4, cylindric, dense, many-flowered, 1-2' long, 3V- 5" wide, slender-peduncled, at first erect, finely drooping; perigynia strongly glaucous, ascending, ovoid or obovoid, 3-angled, ii"-i|" long, 1" wide or more, obscurely nerved, tapering into a short beak with entire orifice; scales with obovate body, about length of perigynia, abruptly long-cuspidate, reddish-brown with green midrib, squarrose; stigmas 3. In swamps, Virginia to Florida and Mississippi. July-Sept. Swamp or A. Carex acutiformis Ehrh. Beitr. 4: 43. 1789- C. paludosa Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 202. 1794- Culms stout, erect, sharp-angled, 2°-3° tall, smooth below, often rough above. Leaves 2*"-6" wide, flat, glaucous-green, equalling or sometimes exceeding the culm; lower bracts similar to the leaves, the upper short and narrow; staminate spikes 1-4, stalked; pistillate spikes 3-5, narrowly linear-cylin- dric, i4'-3' long, a"-2i" thick, 40-100-flowered, the upper sessile or nearly so and erect, the others slender-stalked, spreading or drooping; perigynia ovoid, i4"-il" long, not inflated, strongly many- nerved, tapering into a very short and minutely 2-
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