. 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. 112. Carex panicea L. Grass-like Sedge. Car- nation-grass. Fig. 979. Carex panicea L. Sp. PI. 977. 1753. Glabrous, pale bluish green and glaucous, phyllo- podic, long-stoloniferous, culms slender, smooth, erect, stiff, 6-20 tall. Leaves flat, i"-2" wide, the lower usu- ally shorter than the culm; bracts short, long-sheath- ing; staminate spike usually
. 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. 112. Carex panicea L. Grass-like Sedge. Car- nation-grass. Fig. 979. Carex panicea L. Sp. PI. 977. 1753. Glabrous, pale bluish green and glaucous, phyllo- podic, long-stoloniferous, culms slender, smooth, erect, stiff, 6-20 tall. Leaves flat, i"-2" wide, the lower usu- ally shorter than the culm; bracts short, long-sheath- ing; staminate spike usually 1, its peduncle smooth; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, distant, stalked or the upper nearly sessile, erect, 1' or less long, 2i"-3i" thick, closely or at base loosely 8-25-flowered; perigynia oblong-obovoid, 1I-2" long and about 1" in diameter, slightly swollen and obscurely 3-angIed, yellow, purple or mottled, faintly few-nerved, tipped with a very short entire somewhat oblique beak; scales ovate, acute, pur- ple or purple-margined, shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. In fields and meadows, Nova Scotia to Connecticut. Locally naturalized from Europe. Gilliflower-grass, Blue- grass, Pink-leaved sedge. 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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