SEDGE FAMILY. 329 
111. Carex Albursina Sheldon. White Bear Sedge. (Fig. 781.) 
Carex laxiflora var. latifolia Boott, Ill. 38. 1858. Not 
C. latifolia Moench. 
Carex Albursina Sheldon, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 284. 
1893. 
Glabrous, rather deep green, culms stout, nearly 
smooth, flattened, usually spreading, 8/-2° long. 
Basal leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, shorter than the culm, '%/-1'4’ wide; bracts 
similar to the narrower culm-leaves, the upper over- 
topping the spikes; staminate spikes sessile or nearly 
so; pistillate spikes 2-4, distant and narrowly linear, 
stalked or the upper sessile and close together, 14/— 
114’ long, very loosely flowered; perigynia obovoid, 
obtusely 3-angled, strongly many-nerved, 2’’ long, 
1’’ thick, tipped with a very short bent entire beak; 
scales ovate-oblong, scarious-margined, obtuse or the 
lower acute, shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 
In woods, Massachusetts to New York, Ohio and Min- 
nesota, south to Virginia and Michigan. Ascends to 
2300 ft. in Virginia. June-Aug. The specific name is 
in allusion to White Bear Lake, Minn. 
112, Carex plantaginea Lam. Plantain- 
leaved Sedge. (Fig. 782.) 
Carex plantaginea Yam. Encycl. 3: 392. 1789. 
Glabrous, rather dark green, culms slender, erect 
or reclining, 6’/-2° long. Leaves 14/—1’ wide, shorter 
than or equalling the culm, persistent through the 
winter and until the new culms develop in the fol- 
lowing spring; bracts short, usually with purple or 
purplish clasping sheaths; staminate spike long- 
stalked, purple; pistillate spikes 3 or 4, erect, all 
slender-stalked, 1’ or less long, loosely flowered, the 
stalks of the upper ones enclosed in the sheaths; 
perigynia oblong, outwardly curved, many-nerved, 
1%” long, about 1’ thick, longer than or equalling 
the ovate cuspidate scales; stigmas 3. 
In woods, New Brunswick and Ontario to Manitoba, 
south to Virginia and Wisconsin. Ascends to 2100 ft. in 
Virginia. May-July. 
113. Carex laxiculmis Schwein. Spreading Sedge. (Fig. 783.) 
Carex laxiculmis Schwein. Ann. Lyc.N. Y.1:70. 1824. 
Carex retrocurva Dewey, Wood’s Bot. 423. 1845. 
Glabrous, blue-green and glaucous, culms filiform, 
smooth or very nearly so, ascending or diffuse, 6’—2° 
long. Basal leaves elongated, 3//-5’’ wide, often 
longer than the culms; bracts similar to the narrower 
culm-leaves, usually short; staminate spike long- 
stalked; pistillate spikes 2-4, oblong, loosely few- 
flowered, 3/’-6’’ long, about 2’ thick, drooping on 
long hair-like stalks or the upper short-stalked and 
erect; perigynia ovoid-oblong, sharply 3-angled, 
many-nerved, about 1’ long and rather more than 
¥4/ thick, narrowed at both ends, scarcely beaked, 
longer than the ovate green cuspidate or short-awned 
scales; stigmas 3. 
In woods and thickets, southern Ontario to Michigan, 
south to Rhode Island and Virginia, Ascends to 5600 ft. 
in Virginia. May-June. 
