. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. CAREX CARICA 245 tivs. stiff and evergreen, long-pointed, in the common garden form with a white band near either margin: culm 1 ft., with a terminal staminate spike and two or three slender pistillate spikes (1 in. long) from sheaths: perigynium small and firm, somewhat excurved, 2- toothed, glabrous. Jap.
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. CAREX CARICA 245 tivs. stiff and evergreen, long-pointed, in the common garden form with a white band near either margin: culm 1 ft., with a terminal staminate spike and two or three slender pistillate spikes (1 in. long) from sheaths: perigynium small and firm, somewhat excurved, 2- toothed, glabrous. Jap. III. 13:173. 20, p. 9. —A very handsome plant, suited for pots or the border. The stiff, clean, white-edged foliage keeps in condition for months, making the plant useful for decorations in which pot-plants are used. It is perfectly hardy in central New York, holding its foliage all winter. A use- ful florists' plant. ten^ria, Hort. (C. Unera, Hort.). Slender but stiff: Ivs. narrow, rolling more or less when dry: staminate spikes long-stalked : pistillate spikes 1 or 2, short- stalked, short, with few large-turgid, tapering, shining. 360. Carex lurida. one of the common boe species. (Natural size.) «., staminate spike; 6, 6, pistillate spikes. perigynia and awl-like, rough-pointed scales. Probably Japanese.—Cult, for its stiff foliage. Grows 18-30 in. high. Allied to the N. Amer. C. iuUata, Schk. 6audichaiidi&na, Kunth (C. milgAris, Fries, var. Gaudichaudi&na, Boott). Culms erect, 1-2 ft.: Ivs. long and grass-like : staminate fls. in terminal spikes : pis- tillate fls. in 2-3 cylindrical, sessile or subsessile spikes: perigynium lenticular, small, very short beaked, obscurely 2- toothed, finely nerved, longer than the narrow scale. Jap., Austral., N. Zeal.—Useful for bog planting. rr^seri, Andrews. Lvs. 1 in. or more broad, stiff, but with no midnerve, fiat and thick, evergreen : culm 16 in. or less high, bearing at its summit a single whitish spike which
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