. 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. 135. Carex katahdinensis Fernald. Mt. Katah- din Sedge. Fig. 1002. Carex katahdinensis Fernald, Rhodora 3: 171. 1901. Glabrous, culms short, 2V tall or less, roughened above. Leaves l"-ii" wide, much exceeding the culm; lower bracts similar to the culm-leaves, much exceeding spikes, their sheaths 1' long or less; staminate spike nearly sessile; pistil
. 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. 135. Carex katahdinensis Fernald. Mt. Katah- din Sedge. Fig. 1002. Carex katahdinensis Fernald, Rhodora 3: 171. 1901. Glabrous, culms short, 2V tall or less, roughened above. Leaves l"-ii" wide, much exceeding the culm; lower bracts similar to the culm-leaves, much exceeding spikes, their sheaths 1' long or less; staminate spike nearly sessile; pistillate spikes 3-4, closely approximate, erect, narrowly oblong, 3i"-7" long, 2"-2i" thick, rather closely 6-15-flowered, slightly exsert-peduncled; peri- gynia oval, suborbicular in cross-section, rounded to each end, finely many-striate, essentially beakless, it" long, slightly more than i" thick, the orifice entire; scales ovate, scarious-margined, more or less strongly cuspidate, as wide as but shorter than perigynia; stigmas 3. Depot Pond, Mt. Katahdin, Maine ; Lake St. John, Quebec. June-July. Possibly only a form of Carex conoidea Schk. 136. Carex conoidea Schk. Field Sedge. Fig. 1003. Carex conoidea Schk.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 280. 1805. Glabrous, culms slender, rough, erect, 6'-3o' tall. Leaves I"-2" wide, shorter than or but little exceeding the culm; lower bracts similar to the culm-leaves, some- times but slightly overtopping the spike, their sheaths 1' long or less; staminate spike usually long-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3, distant, erect, oblong or oblong- cylindric, ii"-i2", usually 4"-8", long, 2J" thick, rather closely 8-25-flowered, the upper slightly exsert-peduncled, the lower strongly so; perigynia oval, suborbicular in cross-section, rounded to each end, finely many-striate, beakless, ij" long, slightly more than I" thick, the orifice entire; scales ovate, scarious-margined, acumi- nate
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