. 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. 43 < CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 215. Carex rhomalea (Fernald) Mackenzie. Moosehead Lake Sedge. Fig. 1082. C. miliaris var. major Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: C. saxatilis var. rhomalea Fernald, Rhodora 3 : 50. 1901. C. rhomalea Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 37: 246. 1910. Culms slender, sharply triangular and roughened above, reddened and but little if at all fila
. 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. 43 < CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 215. Carex rhomalea (Fernald) Mackenzie. Moosehead Lake Sedge. Fig. 1082. C. miliaris var. major Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: C. saxatilis var. rhomalea Fernald, Rhodora 3 : 50. 1901. C. rhomalea Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 37: 246. 1910. Culms slender, sharply triangular and roughened above, reddened and but little if at all filamentose at base, 6-2° tall; rootstocks creeping. Leaves i"-ii" wide, strongly involute, usually shorter than the culm, obscurely nodulose, roughened towards apex; lowest bract narrower, shorter than or exceeding culm, erect or spreading; staminate spikes 1-3, short- stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3, ascending, suborbicular to oblong, 4"-9" long, 2V-3" wide, sessile or the lower short-stalked; perigynia x\" long, oblong- ovoid, yellowish-green or dark-tinged, few-nerved, scarcely inflated, ascending, contracted into a short emarginate beak; scales ovate, obtuse, acute or acuminate, light-brown to strongly blackish-tinged, shorter than perigynia; stigmas usually 2. On lake and river shores, central Maine to Newfound- land. Summer. Has been confused with C. saxatilis L. and with C. rotundataWzhl. 216. Carex saxatilis L. Russet Sedge. Fig. 1083. Carex saxatilis L. Sp. PI. 976. 1753. Carex pulla Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 3: 78. 1797. Glabrous, culms not filamentose at base, strongly stoloniferous, erect, slender, 3'-2° tall. Leaves flat, i"-2i" broad, obscurely nodulose, the upper not over- topping the culm; bracts short; staminate spike usu- ally solitary, short-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-4, all stalked or the upper nearly or quite sessile, subor- bicular to oblong-cylindric, 4"-i2" long, 3"-4i" wide, densely 15-50-flowe
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