. 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. 424 CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 191. Carex recta Boott. Cuspidate Sedge. Fig. 1058. C. recta Boott, in Hook. Fl. 2 : 220. pi. 222. 1840. Glabrous, culms phyllopodic, from long rootstocks, rather stout, smooth or rough above, erect, i°-3° tall. Leaves often equalling the culm, i"-3" wide, their margins revolute, smooth, their sheaths more or less nodu
. 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. 424 CYPERACEAE. Vol. I. 191. Carex recta Boott. Cuspidate Sedge. Fig. 1058. C. recta Boott, in Hook. Fl. 2 : 220. pi. 222. 1840. Glabrous, culms phyllopodic, from long rootstocks, rather stout, smooth or rough above, erect, i°-3° tall. Leaves often equalling the culm, i"-3" wide, their margins revolute, smooth, their sheaths more or less nodulose; bracts similar, not spathe-like, usually overtopping the spikes; staminate spikes 1-3, stalked; pistillate spikes 2-4, approximate, narrowly cylindric, often staminate at the summit, i'-2i' long, erect, the upper often sessile, the lower stalked; perigynia elliptic, coriaceous, green, nerveless or 2-4-nerved, with a very short entire beak; scales dark-purple, brownish or chestnut with a green cen- ter, lanceolate, pale, acuminate or abruptly contracted into a serrate awn, much longer than the perigynia; stigmas 2. In marshes, Labrador to the coast of Massachusetts. Also in Europe. Erroneously referred to C. cuspidata Wafal. in our first edition. 192. Carex cryptocarpa C. A. Meyer, fruited Sedge. Fig. 1059. Hidden- Carex cryptocarpa C. A. Meyer, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. 1: 226. pi. 14. 1831. Glabrous, stoloniferous, culm stout, erect, sharply 3-angled, rough above, ii°-3° tall. Leaves smooth, 1"- 4" wide, the basal shorter than or equalling the culm, the upper ones and the lower bract shorter; staminate spikes 2-4, stalked; pistillate spikes 2-5, all filiform- stalked and drooping, densely flowered, i'-t,' long, 3"- 4V in diameter; perigynia oblong or oval, puncticulate, green, several-nerved, li" long, tipped with a very short entire beak; scales purple-brown, ascending, lance- olate, acute, acuminate or even cuspidate, from little to 2 o
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