Genus 18. 



SEDGE FAMILY. 



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74. Carex albolutescens Schwein. Greenish- white Sedge. Fig. 941. 



Carex albolutescens Schwein. Ann. Lye. N. Y. i : 66. 1824. 

 Carex straminea var. foenea Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 395. 



1836. Not C. foenea Willd. 1809. 

 Carex albolutescens var. cumulata Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 



20 : 422. 1893. 



Similar to the preceding species, but usually lower, 

 culms l°-2$° tall, stout, strictly erect, slightly rough 

 above. Leaves i"-2" wide, shorter than the culm; 

 bracts filiform or wanting; spikes 3-8, or sometimes 

 more numerous and somewhat compound, oblong, sil- 

 very green when young but becoming light brownhh, 

 the lateral rounded or little clavate at base, 3"-6" long, 

 mostly less than 3" thick, clustered, but distinct, the 

 lowest sometimes separated, and very rarely stalked ; 

 perigynia broadly ovate, firm, broadly winged, faintly 

 to strongly nerved on both faces, appressed, 1V-2" 

 (rarely 2I") long, i"-ii" wide, the roughish beak about 

 one-third as long as the body; scales lanceolate, obtuse 

 or acutish, nearly as long as the perigynia, but much 

 narrower; achene nearly or quite sessile; stigmas 2. 



In wet soil, along coast, New Brunswick to Venezuela ; 

 also about the Great Lakes, on the Pacific coast, and at a few inland stations from Maine to New 

 York. Bermuda. May-July. 



75. Carex silicea Olney. Sea-beach Sedge. Fig. 942. 



1843. 



C. straminea var. moniliformis Tuckerm. Enum. Meth. 1 7. 



Not C. scoparia var. moniliformis Tuckerm. 1843. 

 Carex foenea var. sabulonum A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 580. 1867. 



Not C. sabulosa Turcz. 1837. 

 Carex silicea Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7 : 393. 1868. 



Culms slender, rather stiff, erect but the summit re- 

 curved or nodding, slightly roughish above, i°-3° tall. 

 Leaves i"-2" wide, involute in drying, shorter than the 

 culm; bracts scale-like; spikes 3-8, or rarely more, ovoid- 

 conic or ovoid-oblong, silvery-green, nearly white or in age 

 becoming brownish, erect, conspicuously clavate and stami- 

 nate at the base, 3"-io" long, 2"-;!" thick, all separated 

 or the uppermost close together, forming a flexuous monili- 

 form head li' _ 3i' long; perigynia with oval or obovate 

 body, firm, short-beaked, nerved on both faces, wing-mar- 

 gined, closely appressed, 2"-2i" long, ii"-ij" wide, longer 

 and much broader than the lanceolate acute scales; 

 stigmas 2. 



In sands of the sea coast, Newfoundland to Virginia. 

 Aug. 



June- 



76. Carex leporina L. Hare's-foot Sedge. Fig. 

 943- 



Carex leporina L. Sp. PI. 973. 1753. 

 C. ovalis Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2 : 



148. 1794- 



Culms slender, erect, stiff, roughish above, 6'-ii° tall, 

 caespitose. Leaves i"-ii" wide, flat, shorter than the 

 culm, not bunched at base; bracts very short and scale- 

 like or wanting; spikes 3-7, ovoid or elliptic, blunt at 

 the summit, rounded and staminate at the base, $"^7" 

 long, 2i"-4" thick, many-flowered, dark brown, shining, 

 clustered but distinct, in a terminal oblong head; peri- 

 gynia appressed-ascending, ovate, 2" long, nearly 1" 

 wide, rather narrowly wing-margined, several-nerved 

 on outer face, nerveless or lightly nerved on inner, the 

 rough tapering 2-toothed beak nearly as long as the 

 body; scales lanceolate, brown, with narrow hyaline 

 margin, acute, about as wide and as long as the peri- 

 gynia; stigmas 2. 



In dry places, Newfoundland to Massachusetts and New 

 York. In ballast southward. Europe and Asia. June-Aug. 



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