SEDGE FAMILY. 



117. Carex livida (Wahl.) Willd. Livid Sedge. (I 



Cuirr limosa var. livida Wahl. Kongl. Vet Acad 



Handl. (II.) 24: 162. 1803. 

 Carf.r livida Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 285. 1805. 



Glabrous, pale green and very glaucous, culms 

 slender, strictly erect, smooth, i-i^ tall. Leaves 

 j//_ 2 // w ide, the basal shorter than or sometimes 

 about equalling the culm, involute in drying; bracts 

 narrow, usually short; staminate spike solitary, 

 short-stalked; pistillate spikes 1-3, 5"-! 2" long, 

 about 2 /x thick, erect and clustered at the summit 

 of the culm, narrowly cylindric, densely several- 

 flowered or looser at the base, the third, when pres- 

 ent, distant or sometimes nearly basal, stalked; 

 perigynia oblong, very pale, nearly 2" long, less 

 than \" thick, finely nerved, straight, beak less, 

 narrowed to an entire orifice; scales ovate, obtuse 

 or the lower subacute, rather shorter than the 

 perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In bogs, Labrador and Hudson Bay to Alaska, south 

 to Connecticut, the pine barrens of New Jersey, central 

 N't \v York and Michigan. Also in Europe. Summer. 



118. Carex aurea Nutt. Golden-fruited Sedge. (Fig. 788.) 



Carex aurea Nutt. Gen. 3: 305. 1818. 



Glabrous, light green, culms rery deader, erect or 

 reclining, 2 / -is / long. Leaves flat, i"-i X" wide, the 

 basal equalling or exceeding the culm; bracts aivflar 

 to the culm-leaves, commonly much overtopping the 

 spikes; terminal spike short-stalked, sUminate or an- 

 drogynous; pistillate spikes 2-4, oblong or linear-ob- 

 long, erect and clustered near the summit or the lower 

 one distant, filiform-stalked, foowly or compactly 

 few-flowered, 2"-io'- long, about i #" thick; peHgy- 

 nia obovoid or subglobose, white or nearly white when 

 young, becoming fleshy, yellow or brown and abovt 

 i // in diameter when mature, many-nenred. beaklca*, 

 the orifice entire; scales ovate, tnetnbranooa acnte, 

 blunt, cuspidate or short-awned, shorter than or the 

 lower exceeding the perigynia; stigmas mostly . 



In wet meadows, springs and on wet rocks. 

 foundland to the Northwest Territory and BnUb Co 

 lumbia, south to Massachusetts, J'rnnnylrania, MlCM 

 gan, Utah and Washington 



Summer 



119. Carex bicolor All. Parti-colored 

 Sedge. (Fig. 789.) 



Carex bicolor All. Fl. Fed. 2: 267. 1785. 



Similar to the preceding species, but somewhat 

 glaucous; culms slender, erect, 2 / -i8 / tall. Basal 

 leaves i // -2 // wide, shorter than or equalling the 

 culm; spikes 2-4, mostly clustered at the summit 

 of the culm, dense, the terminal one partially stam- 

 inate; perigynia oblong, white, compressed, few- 

 nerved, less than \" long, not fleshy at maturity, 

 abruptly tipped with a very short entire nearly 

 cylindric beak; scales brown-purple with white 

 midvein and margins, oval, obtuse or acute, shorter 

 than the perigynia. 



Greenland and Labrador (according to Boott). Also 

 in Kurope. Summer. 



