. 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. 209. Carex lepidocarpa Tausch. Small Yellow Sedge. Fig. 1076. Carex lepidocarpa Tausch, Flora 129. 1834. " Carex flava var. rectirostra Gaudin; " Fernald, Rho- dora 8 : 201. 1906. C. flava var. graminis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 30. 1889. C. flava var. elatior Schlecht. Fl. Berol. 1: 477. 1823. Glabrous, yellow-green, culms slender, stiff, erect, smo
. 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. 209. Carex lepidocarpa Tausch. Small Yellow Sedge. Fig. 1076. Carex lepidocarpa Tausch, Flora 129. 1834. " Carex flava var. rectirostra Gaudin; " Fernald, Rho- dora 8 : 201. 1906. C. flava var. graminis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 30. 1889. C. flava var. elatior Schlecht. Fl. Berol. 1: 477. 1823. Glabrous, yellow-green, culms slender, stiff, erect, smooth or nearly so, 6-18' tall. Leaves i¥' wide or less, fiat, usually shorter than the culm, the lower bract elongated, spreading or ascending, sheathing; staminate spike solitary, sessile or peduncled; pistil- late spikes 1-4, oblong to subglobose, erect, sessile and continuous or widely separate, the lower stalked, densely 15-35-flowered, s"-8" long, about zh" thick (extremes 3"-4i") ; perigynia ovoid, yellow, spread- ing or the lower retrorse when mature, 2" long, few- nerved, abruptly contracted into a subulate 2-toothed beak which is shorter than the body; scales ovate to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, J-l length of peri- gynia, usually inconspicuous at maturity; stigmas 3. Wet meadows, Newfoundland to Michigan, Rhode Island and New Jersey. Also in Europe. June-Sept. 210. Carex flava L. Yellow Sedge. Fig. 1077. Carex flava L. Sp. PI. 975. 1753. Glabrous, yellow-green, culms slender but stiff and erect, smooth or nearly so, 6'-2° tall. Leaves i"-2i" wide, flat, the lower shorter than or sometimes ex- ceeding the culm, the lower bract elongated, spreading or ascending, sheathing; staminate spike solitary, stalked or sessile; pistillate spikes 1-4, globose-oblong, erect, varying from sessile and close together to strongly separate and the lower strongly stalked, densely 15-35- flowered, 3"-9" long, about 5" thick (extre
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