SEDGE FAMILY. 



64. Carex limosa L. Mud Sedge. 

 . (Fig- 734-) 



Caret limosa L- Sp. PI. 977. 1753. 



Glabrous, rather light green, culms slender, 

 rough above, erect, io / -2 tall. Leaves i" wide or 

 shorter than the culm, the midvein promi- 

 nent, the margins somewhat involute in drying; 

 bracts linear-filiform, the lower %'-i%' long; 

 statninate spike solitary, long-stalked; pistillate 

 spikes i or 2, filiform-stalked and drooping, ob- 

 long, $"-10" long, about 3" thick; perigynia pale, 

 oval, narrowed at both ends, i^ // long, ascending, 

 tipped with a minute entire beak, several-nerved, 

 about as long as the oval green or purplish-brown 

 cuspidate or acute scale; stigmas 3. 



In bogs, Labrador to the Northwest Territory, south 

 to Maine. Ni \v Jersey, Ohio, Minnesota and' ! 



ids to 4000 ft. in the White Mountains. Also in 

 Europe. Summer. 



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65. Carex Magellanica Lam. Magellan Si-due. (Fig. 735.) 



Carer Maqclltn. ; Hj. 



Caret irnjfmf Smith. H..J.JH C.m. 73. 



Glabrous, culms slender, smooth or no 

 erect or reclining, 6'-2 tall. Leave* t\ . 

 wide, somewhat rough on the margin*, commonly 

 shorter than the culm, the lower bract similar and 

 usually overtopping the spikes; laminate spike 

 solitary, or rarely 2, often partially pistillate; pis- 

 tillate spikes 1-3, oblong, filiform-stalked and 

 drooping, 4 / '-8 // long, about 3" in diameter; peri- 

 gynia biconvex, oval, pale, minutely granulate pa- 

 pillose, oval or suborbicular, few-nerved, i 

 long, tipped with a very minute beak, the orifice 

 entire; scales lanceolate, long-acuminate or awned. 

 dark green or purplish-brown, i _S J times as long 

 as the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In hotfs. Xi-sv found land and Labrador to Manitoba. 

 south to Maine, Pennsylvania and Michigan Alao in 

 the I'inta Mountain- unl in -lh- 



ern South Atm-rica Ascends to 4' ft in the Adiro- 

 dacks. Summer. 



66. Carex podocarpa R. Br. Long-awned Arctic Sedge. (1 



Carex podocarpa R. Br. Frank. Journ. App. Ed. 2, 36. 

 1823. 



Glabrous, culms very slender, erect or reclining, 

 rough above, io / -2 long. Leaves a little rough 

 on the margins, i^ // -2 // wide, shorter than the 

 culm, the lowest reduced to short sheaths; lower 

 bract similar to the upper leaves, the upper much 

 shorter and narrower; staminate spikes I or 2, 

 stalked; pistillate spikes 2-4, cylindric, di-n<c. 

 many-flowered, J^'-i.^' long, 3" in diameter, 

 stalked or sessile, the lower often nodding; peri- 

 gynia elliptic-lanceolate, flat, about 2' 2 // long, 

 acute at both ends, appressecl, faintly nerved, the 

 orifice entire; scales purple-black, ovate, acuminate, 

 longer than the perigyuia, the midvein produced 

 into a subulate awn 2 // -6 // long; stigmas 2 or 3. 



Arctic America. 

 hk. Summer. 



Closely related to C. alrofusca 



