GENUS 18. 



SEDGE FAMILY. 



74. Carex albolutescens Schwein. Greenish-white Sedge. Fig. 941. 



Carex albolutescens Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i : 66. 1824. 

 Carex straminea var. foetica Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 395. 



1836. Not C. foenca Willd. 1809. 

 Carex albolutescens var. ciunulata Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 



20: 422. 1893. 



Similar to the preceding species, but usually lower, 

 culms i-2i tall, stout, strictly erect, slightly rough 

 above. Leaves i"-2" wide, shorter than the culm; 

 bracts filiform or wanting; spikes 3-8, or sometimes 

 more numerous and somewhat compound, oblong, sil- 

 very green when young but becoming light brownicli, 

 the lateral rounded or little clavate at base, 3"-6" long, 

 mostly less than 3" thick, clustered, but distinct, the 

 lowest sometimes separated, and very rarely stalked ; 

 perigynia broadly ovate, firm, broadly winged, faintly 

 to strongly nerved on both faces, appressed, ii"-2" 

 (rarely 2i") long, i"-ii" wide, the roughish beak about 

 one-third as long as the body ; scales lanceolate, obtuse 

 or acutish, nearly as long as the perigynia, but much 

 narrower; achene nearly or quite sessile; stigmas 2. 



In wet soil, along coast, New Brunswick to Venezuela ; 

 also about the Great Lakes, on the Pacific coast, and at a few inland stations from Maine to New 

 York. Bermuda. May-July. 



75. Carex silicea Olney. Sea-beach Sedge. Fig. 942. 



i8 43 . 



C. straminea var. moniliformis Tuckerm. Enum. Meth. 17. 



Not C. scoparia var. moniliformis Tuckerm. 1843. 

 Carex foenea var. sabulonum A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 580. 1867. 



Not C. sabidosa Turcz. 1837. 

 Carex silicea Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7 : 393. 1868. 



Culms slender, rather stiff, erect but the summit re- 

 curved or nodding, slightly roughish above, i-3 tall. 

 Leaves i"-2" wide, involute in drying, shorter than the 

 culm ; bracts scale-like ; rpikes 3-8, or rarely more, ovoid- 

 conic or ovoid-oblong, cilvery-green, nearly white or in age 

 becoming brownish, erect, conspicuously clavate and stami- 

 nate at the base, 3"-io" long, 2"-;}" thick, all separated 

 or the uppermost close together, forming a flexuous monili- 

 form head ii'-3$' long; perigynia with oval or obovate 

 body, firm, short-beaked, nerved on both faces, wing-mar- 

 gined, closely appressed, 2"-2\" long, ii"-ij" wide, longer 

 and much broader than the lanceolate acute scales ; 

 stigmas 2. 



In sands of the sea coast, Newfoundland to Virginia. June- 

 Aug. 



76. Carex leporina L. Hare's-foot Sedge. Fig. 

 943- 



Carex leporina L. Sp. PI. 973. 1753. 



C. ovalis Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 148. 1794. 



Culms slender, erect, stiff, roughish above. 6'-i$ tall, 

 caespitose. Leaves i"-ii" wide, flat, shorter than the 

 culm, not bunched at base; bracts very short and scale- 

 like or wanting; spikes 3-7, ovoid or elliptic, blunt at 

 the summit, rounded and staminate at the base, 3i"-7" 

 long, 2i"~4" thick, many-flowered, dark brown, shining, 

 clustered but distinct, in a terminal oblong head ; peri- 

 gynia appressed-ascending, ovate, 2" long, nearly l" 

 wide, rather narrowly wing-margined, several-nerved 

 on outer face, nerveless or lightly nerved on inner, the 

 rough tapering 2-toothed beak nearly as long as the 

 body; scales lanceolate, brown, with narrow hyaline 

 margin, acute, about as wide and as long as the peri- 

 gynia ; stigmas 2. 



In dry places, Newfoundland to Massachusetts and New 

 York. In ballast southward. Europe and Asia. June-Aug. 



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