296 CYPERACEAE. 



Carex miliaris Michx. Northeastern Sedge. (Fig. 683.) 



Carex miliaris Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 174. 1803. 

 Carex miliaris var. mair>" Bailej', Mem. Torr. Club, 

 1:36. 1889.? 



Glabrous, culm very slender, erect, roughish 

 above, i-2 tall. Leaves flat, about i" wide, 

 elongated, nodulose, the upper about equalling the 

 culm; bracts similar to the leaves, often overtop- 

 ping the culm; staminate spikes i or 2, stalked, 

 narrowly linear; pistillate spikes 1-3, oblong or 

 linear-oblong, many-flowered, 4 // -i / long, the up- 

 per sessile, the lowest, when three, stalked; peri- 

 gynia inflated, ovoid, faintly few-nerved, i"- 

 \Yi" long, dark brown or brown-tipped, tapering 

 into a short, nearly entire beak, slightly longer 

 than the *vate or ovate-lanceolate, wholly or 

 partly brown, obtuse or acute scale; stigmas 2. 



Borders of lakes and streams, Labrador and northern 

 Quebec. Reported from northern Minnesota. Summer. 



14. Carex saxatilis L,. 

 (Fig. 684.) 



Russet Sedge. 



Carex saxatilis L,. Sp. PI. 976. 1753. 

 Carex pulla Gooden. Trans. L,inn. Soc. 3: 78. 



1797- 



Glabrous, culms erect, slender, 3 / -i2 / tall. 

 Leaves flat, i // -i>^ // broad, the upper not overtop- 

 ping the culm; bracts short; staminate spike soli- 

 tary, short-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-4, all stalked 

 or the upper nearly or quite sessile, oblong, densely 

 many-flowered; perigynia dark purple-brow r n, as- 

 cending, ovoid, slightly inflated, nerveless or very 

 faintly few-nerved, tipped with a short minutely 2- 

 toothed beak; scales oblong, subacute, greenish 

 purple, about as long as the perigynia; stigmas 

 usually 2. 



Greenland to James Bay and Alaska. Also in arctic 

 Europe and Asia. Summer. 



15. Carex membranopacta Bailey. Fragile Sedge. (Fig. 685.) 



Carex compacta R. Br. in Ross' Voy. App. cxliii. 



1819. Not Krock. 1814. 

 Carex membranacea Hook. Parry's 2d Voy. App. 406. 



1825. Not Hoppe. 

 Carex membranopacta Bailej-, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 



428. 1893. 



Similar to C. sa.vatilis but stouter and taller, 

 6'-i8 / high. Leaves flat, not exceeding the culm, 

 i>" wide; bracts short, the lower commonly 

 longer than its spike, the upper subulate; staminate 

 spikes 1-3, short-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3 i com- 

 monly 2), sessile or the lower short -peduncled, 

 narrowly oblong, obtuse, densely many-flowered, 

 about i' long and 4" in diameter; perigynia spread- 

 ing, brown-purple, ovoid, fragile, much inflated, 

 about \y-t" long, tipped with a short nearly entire 

 beak, little nerved, about as long as the ovate-ob- 

 long greenish-purple or white-margined scales. 



Greenland, through arctic America to Kamptchatka. 

 Summer. 



