SEDGE FAMILY. 



Long-stalked 



1805. 



123- Carex pedunculata Muhl. 

 Carex pedunculata Muhl.; \Villd. Sp. PI. 4: 222. 



Densely matted, rather bright green, culms very 

 slender, roughish above, diffuse or reclining, 3 / -io / 

 long. Leaves flat, \"-\W wide, the basal com- 

 monly longer than the culms; sheaths green, the 

 upper almost bladeless, the lower with short leaf-like 

 blades; staminate spike lomj-stalkcd, usually with 

 some pistillate flowers at its base; pistillate spikes 2- 

 6, 3 // -6 // long, few-flowered, filiform-stalked and 

 spreading or drooping, scattered, commonly borne 

 at every node, some of them appearing basal; peri- 

 gynia obovoid,. sharply 3-angled, puberulent or t.r- 

 couiing glabrous, -2" long, pale green, nerveless, 

 narrowed below into a stipe, tipped with a minute 

 and somewhat oblique entire teak; scales green or 

 purplish, ovate, abruptly cuspidate or the lower sub- 

 ulate- awned, equalling or the lower considerably 

 exceeding the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In dry woods. Anticosti to Manitoba, south to Virginia, lVnn-.\ Ivatn.i .r. 



124. Carex pedicellata (Dewey) Britton. Fibrous-rooted Sedge. 



Care v raria ! 



Muhl. 1805. 



( '. :'<ina var. f>ediffll>iln I>-\\< v. Am j 

 ( </;vr coniHiHtiis Haf 

 Carex pedicellata Britton. Mi m it 



Light green, not stoloniferous. fibrooa-rooted, call 

 slender, roughish above, erect or reclining. 

 Leaves i"-2" wide, shorter than the culou; lower bract 

 narrowly linear or subulate. ' 



short-stalked, 4" -12" long; pistillate apikea 1-4. abort- 

 oblong, few flowered, sessile and usually Kparatod. or 

 the lowest short-sulk -,-d; per^snia oral or oblong. 

 rather less than i" lon^ and a little more than V 

 diameter, pale, pubescent, slightly i- ribbed on each 

 side, tipped with a subulate 2 -toothed beak one fotntb 

 the length of the body; scales green, orate, acute, aboot 

 equalling the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In dry soil. Nova So.tia t.. M" Ohio aad 



Michigan. Aaoenda to 5700 ft in Viqrinla M.o 



Carex pedicellata Wheeleri (Bailey) Britton, Mini T. 

 i-nmmunis\a.r. H'heeleri Bailey. Mem. Torr. CluM. 1:41. 1889. 

 Usually lower than the species and the leaves much shorti-r than : 

 "-3" long; pistillate spikes closer together. Nova Scotia to C"inii-i-ti-ut and 



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125. Carex Pennsylvanica Lain. 

 Pennsylvanica Lam. I-jicycl. 3: 388. 1789. 



Dark or dull green, stoloniferous, culms slender, erect, 

 smooth or roughish, 6'-i5' tall. Leaves W~\W wide, 

 the basal shorter than or sometimes exceeding the culm, 

 the old sheaths persistent and fibrillose; lower bract sub- 

 ulate or scale-like, rarely over y 2 ' long; staminate spike 

 sessile or very short-stalked, l /i'-\' long; pistillate 

 spikes 1-3, short-oblong, few-flowered, sessile, contigu- 

 ous or the lower somewhat distant; perigynia broadly 

 oval, about i" long and more than %" in diameter, pu- 

 bescent, i-ribbed on each side, narrowed at the base, 

 tipped with a 2-toothed beak about one-fourth the length 

 of the body; scales ovate, purplish, acute or cuspidate, 

 equalling or a little longer than the perigynia; stigmas 3. 



In dry soil, New Brunswick to Manitoba and the North- 

 Territory, south to North Carolina, Tennessee and Kan 

 a. Ascends to 5000 ft. in North Carolina. May-June. 



Pennsylvania Sedge. 





