. 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. 129. Carex styloflexa Buckley. Bent Sedge. Fig. 996. Carex styloflexa Buckley, Am. Journ. Sci. 45: 174. 1843. Carex laxifiora var. styloflexa Boott, 111. 37. 1858. Glabrous, culms rather loosely caespitose, slender, triangular, often purplish at base, smooth, i°-2i° tall. Leaves 1 i"—3" wide, flat, shorter than the culm; bracts short, usually exceeded
. 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. 129. Carex styloflexa Buckley. Bent Sedge. Fig. 996. Carex styloflexa Buckley, Am. Journ. Sci. 45: 174. 1843. Carex laxifiora var. styloflexa Boott, 111. 37. 1858. Glabrous, culms rather loosely caespitose, slender, triangular, often purplish at base, smooth, i°-2i° tall. Leaves 1 i"—3" wide, flat, shorter than the culm; bracts short, usually exceeded by the spikes; staminate spike solitary, usually long-stalked but sometimes nearly ses- sile, its scales usually reddish-brown tinged; pistillate spikes 1-4, distant, loosely 4-12-flowered, s"-io" long, the lower drooping on elongated filiform stalks; peri- gynia elliptic-fusiform, triangular, many-nerved, ;-2.\" long, 4" thick, somewhat divergent, tapering gradually to both ends and thus slender-beaked, the beak straight or little oblique; scales ovate or ovate-lanceolate, scari- ous-margined, reddish-brown-tinged, acute, cuspidate or short-awned, shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. In woods and thickets, Connecticut to Florida and Texas. May-July. 130. Carex Shriveri Britton. Shriver's Sedge. Fig. 997. Carex Haleana Olney, Car. Bor. Am. 6. 1871. Not C. Halei Dewey, 1846. C. granulans Shriveri Britton, in Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 1: 322. 1896. Carex Shriveri Britton, Manual 208. 1901. .Glabrous, light green and slightly glaucous, culms slender, erect, smooth or nearly so, 6'-2° tall. Leaves flat, 2j"-8" wide, the basal shorter than the culm; bracts similar to the leaves, the lower rarely equalling the culm, strongly sheathing; staminate spike soli- tary, sessile or nearly so; pistillate spikes 2-5, distant, or the upper two contiguous, erect or somewhat spreading, linear-oblong, 3i"-i4" long, 2"-2i" thick, dens
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