Genus 18. 



SEDGE FAMILY. 



3 6 9 



Soft Fox Sedge. 



26. Carex conjuncta Boott. 

 Fig. 893. 



Carex vulpina Carey, in A. Gray, Man. 541. 1848. Not 



L. 1753- 

 Carex conjuncta Boott, 111. 3: 122. 1862. 



Light green, culms roughish above, sharply 3- 

 angled but flattened, somewhat winged, soft, erect, 

 ii° - 3° tall. Leaves shorter than or sometimes equal- 

 ling the culm, soft, flat, rough-margined, z¥'s" 

 wide; bracts small and bristle-like or wanting; spikes 

 androgynous, 10 or fewer, in a terminal elongated 

 head 1-3' long, approximate, or the lower separated; 

 perigynia ovate-lanceolate, rounded and slightly 

 spongy at base, green even in age, il"-2" long, 

 thickened at the base, strongly several-nerved on 

 outer face, tapering into a roughish 2-toothed beak 

 shorter than the body; scales ovate to ovate-trian- 

 gular, cuspidate or short-awned, about as long as 

 the perigynia ; stigmas 2. 



In moist meadows and thickets, New York to District 

 of Columbia, west to Minnesota and eastern Kansas. 



June-Aug. 



27. Carex vulpinoidea Michx. Fox Sedge. Fig. 894. 



Carex vulpinoidea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 169. 1803. 



Culms slender, stiff, sharply 3-angled, very rough 

 above, i°-3° tall. Leaves i"-2i" wide, elongated, 

 many exceeding the culm; sheaths tight, transversely 

 rugulose; bracts bristle-like, sometimes 2'~3' long; 

 spikes ovoid-oblong, androgynous, densely flowered, 

 2"-4" long, very numerous in a compact or some- 

 what interrupted narrow head, ii' _ s' (usually 2'-$') 

 long, the lower ones distinguishable, sometimes com- 

 pound, the upper confluent; perigynia narrowly to 

 very broadly ovate, l"-ii" long, rather more than 

 i" wide, greenish yellow, flat, plano-convex, several- 

 nerved on the outer face, nerveless or 1-3-nerved on 

 the inner, ascending or spreading at maturity, tipped 

 with a lanceolate 2-toothed beak about as long as the 

 body; scales lanceolate, usually strongly awned, about 

 as long as the upper and longer than lower perigynia, 

 but narrower ; stigmas 2. 



In swamps and wet meadows, New Brunswick to Mani- 

 toba, south to Florida, Louisiana, Nebraska and Texas. 

 Ascends to 2500 ft. in Virginia. June-Aug. 



28. Carex annectens Bicknell. Yellow-fruited 

 Sedge. Fig. 895. 



C. xanthocarpa Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 23: 22. 1896. 

 Not Regl. 1807. 



Carex xanthocarpa var. annectens Bicknell, Bull. Torr. 

 Club 23 : 22. 1896. 



Carex annectens Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 492. 1908. 



Culms stoutish, rough above, 1 "-5° tall, exceeding 

 the leaves. Leaves i"—yk" wide ; head oblong or ovoid, 

 usually dense, 4'-2$' long; sheaths tight, transversely 

 rugulose; spikes androgynous, numerous, ovoid, many- 

 flowered, short ; bracts much less conspicuous than in 

 the last; perigynia bright yellow, plano-convex, ovate 

 to suborbicular, ii" long, with a narrowed or truncate 

 base, and abruptly narrowed into a short minutely 

 2-toothed beak, nerveless, or obscurely few-nerved on 

 the outer face; scales acuminate, short-awned. 



In fields, Maine to New York, Iowa, Maryland and Mis- 

 souri. June-Aug. 



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