. 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. 75. Carex silicea Olney. Sea-beach Sedge. Fig. 1843. C. straminea var. moniliformis Tuckerm. Enum. Meth. 17. Not C. scoparia var. moniliformis Tuckerm. 1843. Carex foenea var. sabulonum A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 580. 1867. Not C. sabulosa Turcz. 1837. Carex silicea Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7 : 393. 1868. Culms slender, rather stiff, erect but the summit re- curv
. 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. 75. Carex silicea Olney. Sea-beach Sedge. Fig. 1843. C. straminea var. moniliformis Tuckerm. Enum. Meth. 17. Not C. scoparia var. moniliformis Tuckerm. 1843. Carex foenea var. sabulonum A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 580. 1867. Not C. sabulosa Turcz. 1837. Carex silicea Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7 : 393. 1868. Culms slender, rather stiff, erect but the summit re- curved or nodding, slightly roughish above, i°-3° tall. Leaves i"-2" wide, involute in drying, shorter than the culm; bracts scale-like; spikes 3-8, or rarely more, ovoid- conic or ovoid-oblong, silvery-green, nearly white or in age becoming brownish, erect, conspicuously clavate and stami- nate at the base, 3"-io" long, 2"-;!" thick, all separated or the uppermost close together, forming a flexuous monili- form head li'_3i' long; perigynia with oval or obovate body, firm, short-beaked, nerved on both faces, wing-mar- gined, closely appressed, 2"-2i" long, ii"-ij" wide, longer and much broader than the lanceolate acute scales; stigmas 2. In sands of the sea coast, Newfoundland to Virginia. Aug. June- 76. Carex leporina L. Hare's-foot Sedge. Fig. 943- Carex leporina L. Sp. PI. 973. 1753. C. ovalis Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 148. 1794- Culms slender, erect, stiff, roughish above, 6'-ii° tall, caespitose. Leaves i"-ii" wide, flat, shorter than the culm, not bunched at base; bracts very short and scale- like or wanting; spikes 3-7, ovoid or elliptic, blunt at the summit, rounded and staminate at the base, $"^7" long, 2i"-4" thick, many-flowered, dark brown, shining, clustered but distinct, in a terminal oblong head; peri- gynia appressed-ascending, ovate, 2" long, nearly 1" wide, rather narro
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