. 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. Genus 18. SEDGE FAMILY. 43i. 212. Carex abacta Bailey. Yellowish Sedge. Fig. 1079. Carex rostrata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 173. 1803. Not Stokes, 1787. Carex Michauxiana Boeckl. Linnaea 40: 336. 1877. Not C. Michauxii Schwein. 1824. Carex abacta Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 427. 1893. Glabrous, whole plant yellowish, culm erect or slightly assurgent at the base,
. 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. Genus 18. SEDGE FAMILY. 43i. 212. Carex abacta Bailey. Yellowish Sedge. Fig. 1079. Carex rostrata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 173. 1803. Not Stokes, 1787. Carex Michauxiana Boeckl. Linnaea 40: 336. 1877. Not C. Michauxii Schwein. 1824. Carex abacta Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 427. 1893. Glabrous, whole plant yellowish, culm erect or slightly assurgent at the base, rather stiff, slender, i°-2° high. Leaves narrow, the broadest about 2" wide, the uppermost often exceeding the culm; staminate spike terminal, sessile or very nearly so; pistillate spikes 1 to 3, several-many- flowered, the upper sessile or very nearly so and closely approximate, the third, when present, remote and borne on a long stalk; bracts similar to the leaves, usually erect and overtopping the culm; perigynia lanceolate, 4"~j" long, less than 1" thick at the base, narrow, scarcely inflated, erect or spreading, tapering into a subulate 2-toothed beak, rather strongly many-nerved, about twice as long as the lanceolate or ovate, acute or short-acuminate scale; achenes oblong-obovoid, ii" long; stigmas 3. In bogs and wet meadows, Labrador and Newfoundland to New Hampshire, New York and Pennsylvania, west to Mich- igan. Ascends to 5000 ft. in New Hampshire. Also in eastern Asia. June-Sept. 213. Carex folliculata L. Long Sedge. Fig. 1080. Carex folliculata L. Sp. PI. 978. 1753. C. xanthophysa Wahl. Vet. Akad. Handl. 24: 152. 1803. Glabrous, light green or yellowish, culm stout or slender, erect or reclining, i4°-34° long. Leaves broad and elongated, sometimes overtopping the culm, 2"-8" wide; staminate spike stalked or nearly sessile; pistillate spikes 2-5, usually distant, all except the uppermost slender-stalked, several-many-flow- ere
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