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64. Carex limosa L. Mud Sedge. 
(Fig. 734.) 
Carex limosa I,. Sp. Pl. 977. 1753- 
Glabrous, rather light green, culms slender, 
rough above, erect, 10’-2° tall. Leaves 1/’ wide or 
less, shorter than the culm, the midvein promi- 
nent, the margins somewhat involute in drying; 
bracts linear-filiform, the lower %/-114’ long; 
staminate spike solitary, long-stalked; pistillate 
spikes 1 or 2, filiform-stalked and drooping, ob- 
' long, 5/’-10’ long, about 3’ thick; perigynia pale, 
oval, narrowed at both ends, 114’ long, ascending, 
tipped with a minute entire beak, several-nerved, 
about as long as the oval green or purplish-brown 
cuspidate or acute scale; stigmas 3. 
In bogs, Labrador to the Northwest Territory, south 
to Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, Minnesota and Idaho. 
Ascends to 4000 ft. in the White Mountains. Also in 
Europe. Summer. 
65. Carex Magellanica Lam. Magellan Sedge. (Fig. 735.) 
Carex Magellanica Yam. Encycl. 3: 385. 1789. 
Carex trrigua Smith; Hoppe, Caric. 72. 1826. 
Glabrous, culms slender, smooth or nearly so, 
erect or reclining, 6/—2° tall. eaves flat, 1//-2/” 
wide, somewhat rough on the margins, commonly 
shorter than the culm, the lower bract similar and 
usually overtopping the spikes; staminate spike 
solitary, or rarely 2, often partially pistillate; pis- 
tillate spikes 1-3, oblong, filiform-stalked and 
drooping, 4/’-8’’ long, about. 3/’ in diameter; peri- 
gynia biconvex, oval, pale, minutely granulate-pa- 
pillose, oval or suborbicular, few-nerved, 1//-14/’ 
long, tipped with a very minute beak, the orifice 
entire; scales lanceolate, long-acuminate or awned, 
dark green or purplish-brown, 114-2 times as long 
as the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
In bogs, Newfoundland and Labrador to Manitoba, 
south to Maine, Pennsylvaniaand Michigan. Alsoin 
the Uinta Mountains, Utah, in Europe, and in south- 
ern South America. Ascends to 4600 ft. in the Adiron- 
dacks. Summer. 
66. Carex podocarpa R. Br. Long-awned Arctic Sedge. (Fig. 736. ) 
ar oe podocarpa RX. Br. Frank. Journ. App. Ed. 2, 36. 
1823. 
Glabrous, culms very slender, erect or reclining, 
rough above, 10’-2° long. Leaves a little rough 
on the margins, 114//-2’’ wide, shorter than the 
culm, the lowest reduced to short sheaths; lower 
bract similar to the upper leaves, the upper much 
shorter and narrower; staminate spikes 1 or 2, 
stalked; pistillate spikes 2-4, cylindric, dense, 
many-flowered, }4/’-134’ long, 3’ in diameter, 
stalked or sessile, the lower often nodding; peri- 
gynia elliptic-lanceolate, flat, about 214’ long, 
acute at both ends, appressed, faintly nerved, the 
orifice entire; scales purple-black, ovate, acuminate, 
longer than the perigynia, the midvein produced 
into a subulate awn 2//-6’’ long; stigmas 2 or 3. 
Arctic America. Closely related to C. a/rofusca 
Schk. Summer. 
