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Carex stricta Lam. Encycl. 3: 387- 

 "Carex acuta L." Muhl. Descr. Gram. 263. 1817. 

 Carex virginiana Smith, Rees' Cycl. 7 sp. 100. 1819. 

 Carex commutata J. Gay, Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 11: 198. 1839. 

 Carex Kelvingtoniana Steud. Syn. PI. Cyp. 215. 1855. 

 Carex virginica Steud. Syn. PI. Cyp. 217. 1855. 

 Carex tenuispica Boeckl. Flora 39: 225. 1856. 

 Carex tristicha Boeckl. Flora 41: 651. 1858. 



Carex xerocarpa S. H. Wright, Am. Journ. Sci. II. 13 : 334. 1866. 

 Carex angustata var. a typica and var. |3 (in great part) Boott, 



111. Car. 4: 173. pi. 586, f. I, 587. i^e-j. Not C. angustata 



Boott; Hooker Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 218. 1867. 

 Carex angustata var. xerocarpa Bailey, Caifex Cat. 1884. 

 Carex stricta var. angustata Bailey; A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 600. 



1890. 

 Carex stricta xerocarpa Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 222. 1895. 



Growing in very dense tussocks, the culms aphyllopodic, 3-10 

 dm. high, slender, strict, exceeding leaves, very rough on the 

 sharp angles, the faces concave, strongly filamentose and brownish 

 or light purplish brown at base, the basal sheaths subcarinate. 

 Leaves with well-developed blades three to five to a fertile culm, on 

 lower fourth, often somewhat clustered, the sheaths slightly 

 hispidulous, tight, hyaline and often brownish tinged opposite 

 the blades, the blades 1.5-3 mm. wide, usually 1-3 dm. long, 

 stiffish, deep green, the margins revolute, but blade itself channeled 

 and keeled towards base, strongly roughened. Principal staminate 

 spike usually one (with one or two smaller sessile ones near its 

 base), erect, peduncled, 2-4 cm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, the scales 

 oblong-obovate, obtuse, light reddish brown with lighter center 

 and hyaline margins. Pistillate spikes usually two or three, 

 erect, sessile, or lower slightly peduncled, more or less strongly 

 separate, the upper often staminate above, the better developed 

 2-6 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, the perigynia closely arranged in 

 several ranks (or spikes at times somewhat attenuate below); 



