. 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. 416 CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 167. Carex scabrata Schwein. Rough Sedge. Fig. Carex scabrata Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i: 69. 1824. Glabrous, strongly stoloniferous, culms sharply- triangular, weakly erect, very rough above, leafy, i°-3° high. Leaves very rough above, much elon- gated, 2i"-o" wide, the bracts similar but narrower and usually exceeding
. 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. 416 CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 167. Carex scabrata Schwein. Rough Sedge. Fig. Carex scabrata Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i: 69. 1824. Glabrous, strongly stoloniferous, culms sharply- triangular, weakly erect, very rough above, leafy, i°-3° high. Leaves very rough above, much elon- gated, 2i"-o" wide, the bracts similar but narrower and usually exceeding the culm; staminate spike stalked; pistillate spikes 3-6, erect, the upper short- stalked, the lower sometimes spreading or drooping, narrowly cylindric, densely many-flowered, l'-2i' long, 2V-4," in diameter; perigynia greenish-brown, ii"-a" long, nearly 1" wide, the body obovoid, slightly inflated, strongly nerved, papillose, abruptly contracted into a long beak with obliquely cut, at length slightly bidentate, hyaline orifice; scales lan- ceolate, acute or short-awned, strongly nerved, shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. In moist woods and thickets, eastern Quebec to On- tario, Michigan, South Carolina and Tennessee. As- cends to 4200 ft. in Virginia. Hybridizes with Carex crinlta. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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