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13. Carex miliaris Michx. Northeastern Sedge. (Fig. 683.) 
14. Carex saxatilis L. Russet Sedge. 
(Fig. 684.) 
Carex saxatilis I,. Sp. Pl. 976. 
753 
Carex pulla Gooden, Trans. Linn. $ 
Glabrous, culms erect, slender, 
Oc. 3:78.  1797- 
Carex miliaris Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 174. 1803. 
Carex miliaris var. maje~ Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 
I: 36. 1889.? 
Glabrous, culm very slender, erect, roughish 
above, 1°-2° tall. Leaves flat, about 1/’’ wide, 
elongated, nodulose, the upper about equalling the 
culm; bracts similar to the leaves, often overtop- 
ping the culm; staminate spikes 1 or 2, stalked, 
narrowly linear; pistillate spikes 1-3, oblong or 
linear-oblong, many-flowered, 4/’—1’ long, the up- 
per sessile, the lowest, when three, stalked; peri- 
gynia inflated, ovoid, faintly few-nerved, 1//— 
1%’ long, dark brown or brown-tipped, tapering 
into a short, nearly entire beak, slightly longer 
than the ovate or ovate-lanceolate, wholly or 
partly brown, obtuse or acute scale; stigmas 2. 
Borders of lakes and streams, Labrador and northern 
Quebec. Reported from northern Minnesota. Summer. 
3/-12’ tall. 
Leaves flat, 1-114’ broad, the upper not overtop- 
ping the culm; bracts short; staminate spike soli- 
tary, short-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-4, all stalked 
or the upper nearly or quite sessile, oblong, densely 
many-flowered; perigynia dark purple-brown, as- 
cending, ovoid, slightly inflated, nerveless or very 
faintly few-nerved, tipped with a short minutely 2- 
toothed beak; scales oblong, subacute, greenish 
purple, about as long as the perigynia; stigmas 
usually 2. 
Greenland to James Bay and Alaska. 
Europe and Asia. Summer. 
Also in arctic 
15. Carex membranopacta Bailey. Fragile Sedge. (Fig. 685.) 
Carex compacta R. Br. in Ross’ Voy. App. exliii. 
1819. Not Krock. 1814. 
Carex membranacea Hook..Parry’s 2d Voy. App. 406. 
1825. Not Hoppe. 
Carex membranopacta Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 
428. 1893. 
Similar to C. saxatilis but stouter and taller, 
6-18’ high. Leaves flat, not exceeding the culm, 
1%4’’ wide; bracts short, the lower commonly 
longer than its spike, the upper subulate; staminate 
spikes 1-3, short-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3 (com- 
monly 2), sessile or the lower short-peduncled, 
narrowly oblong, obtuse, densely many-flowered, 
about 1’ long and 4’ in diameter; perigynia spread- 
ing, brown-purple, ovoid, fragile, much inflated, 
about 1%’ long, tipped with a short nearly entire 
beak, little nerved, about as long as the ovate-ob- 
long greenish-purple or white-margined scales. 
Greenland, through arctic America to Kamptchatka. 
Summer. 
