GENUS 18. 



SEDGE FAMILY. 



206. Carex fulvescens Mackenzie. Tawny 

 Sedge. Fig. 1073. 



C. fulvescens Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 37 : 239. 

 1910. 



Glabrous, yellow-green, culms slender, erect, 

 6'-2o' tall, smooth or slightly roughened on 

 angles. Leaves t"-ii" wide, flat, shorter than 

 the culm, the lower bract shorter than the culm, 

 ascending, long-sheathing; staminate spike soli- 

 tary, strongly peduncled; pistillate spikes 1-3, 

 oblong, erect, widely separate, the lower strongly 

 exsert-peduncled, the upper short exsert-pedun- 

 cled, densely i_5-4O-flowered, 4"-io" long, 3i"-5" 

 thick; perigynia narrowly ovoid, yellowish-green, 

 appressed-ascending, 2\" long, i" wide, finely 

 several-nerved, contracted into a rough bidentate 

 beak half as long as body; scales ovate, acute or 

 obtuse, brown with conspicuous white ^scarious 

 margins, somewhat shorter than perigynia; stig- 

 mas 3. 



In wet places, Anticosti, Miquelon and probably 

 Newfoundland; also collected near Boston, Mass. 

 Related to the European Carex fulva Good, and prob- 

 ably mistaken for it, but apparently distinct. July- 

 Sept. 



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207. Carex extensa Gooden. Long-bracted 

 Sedge. Fig. 1074. 



Carex extensa Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 175. 1794. 



Glabrous, bright green, culms stiff, erect, io'-2 tall. 

 Leaves about i' wide, strongly involute, erect, the lower 

 bract similar, much exceeding the spikes, sheathing, the 

 upper shorter, sometimes spreading; staminate spike 

 sessile or nearly so, rarely pistillate at the base; pistil- 

 late spikes 1-3, erect, sessile and close together or the 

 lowest short-stalked and distant, oblong, densely 15-50- 

 flowered, 3i"-io" long, 3"-4" thick ; perigynia ovoid 

 or ovoid-oblong, brown, if" long, narrowed at the base, 

 strongly several-ribbed and with thick walls, contracted 

 into a short stout 2-toothed beak ; scales ovate, acute, 

 brown with a greenish midvein, snorter than the peri- 

 gynia ; stigmas 3. 



Borders of salt meadows, Coney Island, N. Y., and near 

 Norfolk, Va. Naturalized from Europe. June-Aug. 



208. Carex Oederi Retz. Green Sedge. Fig. 1075. 



Carex Oederi Retz, Fl. Scand. Prodr. 179. 1779- 

 Carex viridnla Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 170. 1803. 

 C. flava var. viridnla Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club I : 31. 1889. 

 Carex flava var. cyperoides Marss. Fl. Neuroys. 537. 1869. 

 Carex Oederi var. pmnila (Coss. & Germ.) Fernald, Rhodora 

 8 : 20 1. 1906. 



Glabrous, bright green, culms slender, smooth, erect, 

 3'-! 5' tall, often exceeded by the erect narrow basal leaves. 

 Leaves li" or less wide, the bracts similar, usually strictly 

 erect and much overtopping the spikes ; staminate spike 

 sessile or short-peduncled ; pistillate spikes 2-10, all close 

 together and sessile or scattered and short-stalked, oblong- 

 cylindric to globose-oblong, 2" -6" long, 2"-3^" in diam- 

 eter; perigynia ovoid-oval, x"-ii" long, strongly few- 

 nerved, narrowed at the base, abruptly contracted into a 

 2-toothed beak scarcely one-half as long as the body; scales 

 ovate, much shorter than the perigynia and about as wide; 

 stigmas 3. 



In bogs and on wet rocks, Newfoundland to Hudson Bay and 

 the Northwest Territory, south to Maine, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Utah and Washington. Summer. 



