. 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. 392 CYPERACEAE. Vol. 95. Carex varia Muhl. Emmons'Sedge. Fig. 962. Carex varia Muhl.; Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (II.) 24: 159. 1803. C. Emmonsii Dewey, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 411. 1836. C. varia var. colorata Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 41. 1889. Caespitose and little stoloniferous, culms filiform, erect to nearly prostrate, rough above, 3'-2o' long.
. 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. 392 CYPERACEAE. Vol. 95. Carex varia Muhl. Emmons'Sedge. Fig. 962. Carex varia Muhl.; Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (II.) 24: 159. 1803. C. Emmonsii Dewey, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 411. 1836. C. varia var. colorata Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 41. 1889. Caespitose and little stoloniferous, culms filiform, erect to nearly prostrate, rough above, 3'-2o' long. Leaves elongated, i"-ii" wide, from much shorter than to exceeding the culms; bracts short; staminate spike 2"-6" long, sessile, sometimes not overtopping the upper pistillate one, but usually rather prominent; pistillate spikes 1-4, mostly close together and sessile, ii"-3i" long, 4-12-flowered; perigynia oblong-ovoid, short- pubescent, about 1" long, i" thick, strongly narrowed at the base, tipped with a subulate minutely 2-toothed beak commonly one-half the length of the body; scales ovate, green or purplish-brown, acuminate or cuspidate, about as long as the perigynia; 'stigmas 3. In dry soil, Nova Scotia to western Ontario and Manitoba, south to Georgia and Texas. May-July. Very variable. 96. Carex ndvae-angliae Schwein. New England Sedge. Fig. 963. C. novae-angliae Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1: 67. 1824. Loosely caespitose and stoloniferous, culms filiform, erect or reclining, 2i"-i2" long. Leaves about 4" wide, soft, elongated, usually exceeding the culms; stami- nate spike short-stalked, very narrow or almost filiform, 2"-8" long, i" wide or less; pistillate spikes 1-3, distant, subglobose, 2-10-flowered, sessile or the lower short- stalked; lower bract filiform, short or rarely overtop- ping the spikes; perigynia narrowly obovoid, about 1" long and i" thick, short-pubescent, tipped by a subul
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