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CYPERACEAE. 



VOL. I. 



95. Carex variaMuhl. Emmons' Sedge. Fig. 962. 



Car ex varia Muhl. ; Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (II.) 



24: 159. 1803. 



C. Emmonsii Dewey, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 411. 1836. 



C. varia var. colorata Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club i : 41. 1889. 



Caespitose and little stoloniferous, culms filiform, 

 erect to nearly prostrate, rough above, 3'-2o' long. 

 Leaves elongated, *"-ii" wide, from much shorter than 

 to exceeding the culms; bracts short; staminate spike 

 2''-6" long, sessile, sometimes not overtopping the upper 

 pistillate one, but usually rather prominent ; pistillate 

 spikes 1-4, mostly close together and sessile, \\"-$." 

 long, 4-i2-flowered ; perigynia oblong-ovoid, short- 

 pubescent, about i" long, \" thick, strongly narrowed 

 at the base, tipped with a subulate minutely 2-toothed 

 beak commonly one-half the length of the body; scales 

 ovate, green or purplish-brown, acuminate or cuspidate, 

 about as long as the perigynia ; stigmas 3. 



In dry soil, Nova Scotia to western Ontario and Manitoba, 

 south to Georgia and Texas. May-July. Very variable. 



96. Carex novae-angliae Schwein. New England 

 Sedge. Fig. 963. 



C. novae-angliae Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i : 67. 1824. 



Loosely caespitose and stoloniferous, culms filiform, 

 erect or reclining, 2j"-i2" long. Leaves about \" wide, 

 soft, elongated, usually exceeding the culms ; stami- 

 nate spike short-stalked, very narrow or almost filiform, 

 2"-8" long, \" wide or less ; pistillate spikes 1-3, distant, 

 subglobose, 2-io-flowered, sessile or the lower short- 

 stalked; lower bract filiform, short or rarely overtop- 

 ping the spikes; perigynia narrowly obovoid, about i" 

 long and i" thick, short-pubescent, tipped by a subulate 

 2-toothed beak about one-fourth the length of the body; 

 scales ovate, greenish-brown, acute or cuspidate; stig- 

 mas 2 or 3. 



In wet shaded places, New Brunswick to Maine, Massa- 

 chusetts and New York. Summer. 



97. Carex albicans Willd. White-tinged 

 Sedge. Fig. 964. 



C. albicans Willd. ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3 : 818. 1826. 

 C. Peckii E. C. Howe, Ann. Rep. N. Y. St. Museum 

 47: 177. 1895. 



Loosely caespitose and short-stoloniferous, 

 the culms smooth or nearly so, erect, $'-20' tall. 

 Leaves ii" wide or less, soft, much shorter than 

 the culms, the lower sheaths but little fibrillose ; 

 lowest bract absent or short ; staminate spike 

 sessile and usually exceeded by upper pistillate 

 spikes, ii" long or less; pistillate spikes 2-4, 

 subglobose, 2-8-flowered, closely contiguous or 

 the lowest little distant; perigynia oblong- 

 obovoid, ii"-2" long, 5" in diameter, short gray- 

 ish pubescent, i-ribbed on two sides, strongly 

 narrowed at base, abruptly tipped with a biden- 

 tate beak one-fourth the length of the body; 

 scales broadly ovate, reddish-brown with broad 

 white hyaline margins, short-acuminate to ob- 

 tusish, all (except lower) but half the length 

 of perigynia; stigmas 3. 



Open woods and banks, Quebec to Alaska, south 

 to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, " Carolina " and 

 Minnesota. 



