SEDGE FAMILY. 

 46. Carex stylosa C. A. Meyer. Variegated Sedge. (Fig. 716.) 



Carex stylosa C. A. Meyer, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. 

 Div. Sav. i: 222. pi. 12. 1825-31. 



Culms slender, erect, i-i^ tall, rough and 

 leafless above. Leaves i%" wide, shorter than or 

 sometimes equalling the culm; staminatc spike 

 solitary, nearly sessile, often pistillate for one-half 

 its length or more; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, oblong- 

 cylindric, erect, 4 // -6" long, about 1%" in diam- 

 eter, the lowest slender-stalked and subtended by 

 a linear-subulate bract; perigynia ovate, slightly 

 inflated, brown, minutely granulate all over, less 

 than i" long, nerveless and bcakless, the orifice 

 entire and closed by the usually protruding style; 

 scales black with white veins, obtusish, shorter 

 than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



Labrador and Greenland to Alaska. Summer. 



47. Carex Parryana Devvey. Parry's Sedge. il ; i>j. ;t; 



Carex Parryana Dcwey, Am. Joura. Sci. 37 Jj. 



1835- 



Glabrous, culms very slender, smooth, erect, stiff. 

 8'-2o' tall, leafless above. Leave* about t " wide, 

 much shorter than the culm, their margins ooe- 

 what involute; spikes 1-4, dense, erect, linear -cyl- 

 indric, 5"-i2" long, i#" in diameter, the upper 

 sessile and stain inate below or throughout, the low- 

 est stalked and subtended by an almost filiform 

 bract; perigynia plano-convex, obovate. pale, less 

 than i" long, minutely papillose, faintly few- 

 nerved, very minutely beaked, the orifice entire. 

 scales ovate, acute or mucronulate. dark brown 

 with lighter margins, about as long as the peri- 

 gynia; stigmas 3. 



Hudson Bay to the Xorthwr*: T rritory. south in the 

 Rocky Mountains to Colorado. Summct 



48. Carex fusca^All. Brown Sedge. (Fix 



Carex fusca All. Fl. Fed. 2: 269. 1785. 



Carex BuxbaumitWzhl. Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. (II.) 



24: 163. 1803. 



Glabrous, culms slender, stiff, erect, sharp-angled, 

 rough above, i-3 tall. Leaves rough, erect, i"-2" 

 wide, shorter than or sometimes equalling or exceed- 

 ing the culm; spikes 2-4, oblong or cylindric, erect, all 

 sessile and close together or the lowest sometimes 

 distant and very short-stalked, 4"-i8" long, about 

 4" in diameter when mature, the terminal one staui- 

 inate at the base or rarely throughout; perigynia el- 

 liptic or somewhat obovate, flat, ascending, i" long, 

 very light green, faintly few-nerved, beaklcss, the 

 apex minutely 2-toothed; scales ovate, awn-tipped, 

 black or dark brown with a green midvein, longer 

 than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In bogs, Newfoundland to Alaska, south to Geonria. 

 Kentucky, Utah and California. Also in Europe. 



July. 



