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46. Carex stylosa C. A. Meyer. Variegated Sedge. ee 716.) 
Carex stylosa C. A. Meyer, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. 
Div. Sav. 1: 222. pi. 72. 1825-31. 
Culms slender, erect, 1°-1%° tall, rough and 
leafless above. Leaves 1%4’’ wide, shorter than or 
sometimes equalling the culm; staminate spike 
solitary, nearly sessile, often pistillate for one-half 
its length or more; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, oblong- 
cylindric, erect, 4’’-6’’ long, about 14’” in diam- 
eter, the lowest slender-stalked and subtended by 
a linear-subulate bract; perigynia ovate, slightly 
inflated, brown, minutely granulate all over, less 
than 1’ long, nerveless and beakless, the orifice 
entire and closed by the usually protruding style; 
scales black with white veins, obtusish, shorter 
than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
Labrador and Greenland to Alaska. Summer. 
47. Carex Parryana Dewey. Parry’s Sedge. (Fig. 717.) 
Carex Parryana Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 27: 239. 
1835. 
Glabrous, culms very slender, smooth, erect, stiff, 
8/20’ tall, leafless above. Leaves about 1/’ wide, 
much shorter than the culm, their margins some- 
what involute; spikes 1-4, dense, erect, linear-cyl- 
indric, 5/’-12’’ long, 1%4’” in diameter, the upper 
sessile and staminate below or throughout, the low- 
est stalked and subtended by an almost filiform 
bract; perigynia plano-convex, obovate, pale, less 
than 1/’’ long, minutely papillose, faintly few- 
nerved, very minutely beaked, the orifice entire; 
scales ovate, acute or mucronulate, dark brown 
with lighter margins, about as long as the peri- 
gynia; stigmas 3. 
Hudson Bay to the Northwest Territory, south in the 
Rocky Mountains to Colorado. Summer. 
48. Carex fusca All. Brown Sedge. (Fig. 718.) 
Carex fusca All. Fl. Ped. 2: 269. _ 1785. wy, 
Carex Buabaumii Wahl. Kong]. Vet. Acad. Handl. (IT.) \x 
24: 163. 1803. SN 
Glabrous, culms slender, stiff, erect, sharp-angled, 
rough above, 1°-3° tall. Leaves rough, erect, 1//-2/’ 
wide, shorter than or sometimes equalling or exceed- 
ing the culm; spikes 2-4, oblong or cylindric, erect, all 
sessile and close together or the lowest sometimes 
distant and very short-stalked, 4//-18’’ long, about 
4’’ in diameter when mature, the terminal one stam- 
inate at the base or rarely throughout; perigynia el- 
liptic or somewhat obovate, flat, ascending, 1’ long, 
very light green, faintly few-nerved, beakless, the 
apex minutely 2-toothed; scales ovate, awn-tipped, 
black or dark brown with a green midvein, longer 
than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
In bogs, Newfoundland to Alaska, south to Georgia, 
“emus Utah and California. Also in Europe. May- 
