44 



I 



^ 



50. — Carex Nov.^-AnglI/E, Schw. Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. 



Hist. I. 6j (1824), V. s. Hb. Schw.; Dewey, Sill. Journ. 

 (I.) ix. 64, t. 2, f 7 (1825); Schw. & Torr. Monogr. 



^328 (1825). 

 C. collecta, Dewey, Sill. J 



(1.) xi. 314, f. 44 (1826), V. 



s. Hb. Gray, and Hb. Schw,, and teste Torr. 

 411, and Dewey, Cat. PL Mass. 266. 



Monog 



Very slender, stoloniferous, the culms 6 to 8 inches high, 

 about the length of the very narrow and loose leaves ; staminate 

 spike always distinct, erect and prominent, 3 to 8 lines long, 



inch 



mostly minutely peduncled, exceedingly narrow (about 

 broad) ; pistillate spikes usually two, the upper near the base of 



to I inch removed and 



the staminate spike, the lower from 



M 

 L 



short stalked and subtended by a bract which nearly or quite 

 equals the culm, both rather loosely three to six-flowered ; 

 radical spikes none; perigynium very narrow, often nearly ob- 



lanceolate, very thinly hairy, the sharp beak prominent; stigmas 



^ Mountain, 3,000 feet al- 

 bogs on the border of a 



often two. W. Massachusetts : Sadd! 

 titude (the original locality), ^* small 



high 



sphagnous marsh, \Vorthington, 



Mass.. with C. ctirta, 



t y 



Detvcy ; Mt Desert, Me., Rand; 



Joh 



New Brunswick, 



Fowler; *' In grassy woods," Prince Edward Island, Maeotin. Very 

 rare. In aspect much like depauperate forms of C. Pemisylvanica. 



Carex Barbar.E, Dewey, Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 231 



51 



(1859), 



V. s. 



Hb. Olney.; Sill. Journ. (11). xxxi. 24 (1861). 



C. Schottii^ Dewey, 1. c. v. s. Hb. Olney., evidently. 



C, aqiiatilis, W. Boott, Bot. Cal. ii. 241 (1880), v. s. Hb. Gray. 



Sufficient material has now^ accumulated to allow of a positive 

 characterization of this species: Tall and leafy, glaucous; culm 

 sharply angled and rough, particularly above; pistillate spikes 

 two to four, long and narrow (i to 3 in. long), the upper one or 

 two sessile or short peduncled and often staminate at the apex, 

 the lower very long and slenderly peduncled (peduncle 3 to 4 in. 

 long), v^ry much attenuated at the base, usually truncate at the 

 top ; bracts leaf-like, the lowest one or two much prolonged ; 

 perigynium small, obovate or ovate, nerveless, abruptly con- 

 tracted into a short and small, but very distinct beak, either 



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