. 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. Carex rosea Schk.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 237. 1805. Carex rosea var. radiata Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 10 1826. Carex rosea var. minor Boott, 111. Car. 2 : 81. i860. Rather bright green, clilms very slender or -filiform, erect or reclining, rough above, i°-2i° long. Leaves flat, soft, spreading, i"-ii" wide, shorter than the culm; lower bract filiform or bri
. 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. Carex rosea Schk.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 237. 1805. Carex rosea var. radiata Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 10 1826. Carex rosea var. minor Boott, 111. Car. 2 : 81. i860. Rather bright green, clilms very slender or -filiform, erect or reclining, rough above, i°-2i° long. Leaves flat, soft, spreading, i"-ii" wide, shorter than the culm; lower bract filiform or bristle-like, 4'-4' long; spikes 2-8, androgynous, subglobose, ii"-4" in diameter, 2-15- flowered, the 2 to 4 upper close together, the others distant; perigynia narrowly to broadly ovoid-lanceolate, flat, bright green, stellately diverging or sometimes ascending, somewhat spongy at base and with a slightly raised margin, nerveless or nearly so, shining, i"-2' long, rather more than I" wide, tapering or contracted into a stout, rough, 2-toothed beak about one-fourth the length of the body; scales ovate-oblong to ovate- orbicular, obtuse or acutish, persistent, white-hyaline, half as long as the perigynia; stigmas 2. In woods and thickets, Newfoundland to Manitoba, south to Georgia, Nebraska and Arkansas. Ascends to 2500 ft. in Virginia. May-July. 15. Carex muricata L. Lesser Prickly Sedge. Fig. 882. Carex muricata L. Sp. PI. 974 (in part). 1753. Carex contigua Hoppe; Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Heft 61. 1835- Bright green, culms slender, erect, roughish above, i°-2i° tall, not wing-angled. Leaves 1 '-ii" wide, shorter than the culm, not conspicuously septate-nodu- lose; sheaths tight, not transversely rugulose; bracts short; spikes 5-10, 4-10-flowered, all clustered into an oblong head 7V-20" long, or the lower 1 or 2 little distant; perigynia ovate or ovate-lanceolate, dull green, 2"-$" long, 1" wide, smooth, shining, nerveless, ascending
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