Genus 18. 



SEDGE FAMILY. 



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212. Carex abacta Bailey. Yellowish Sedge. Fig. 1079. 



Carex rostrata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 173. 1803. Not Stokes, 



1787. 

 Carex Michauxiana Boeckl. Linnaea 40 : 336. 1877. Not C. 



Michauxii Schwein. 1824. 

 Carex abacta Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 427. 1893. 



Glabrous, whole plant yellowish, culm erect or slightly 

 assurgent at the base, rather stiff, slender, i°-2° high. 

 Leaves narrow, the broadest about 2" wide, the uppermost 

 often exceeding the culm ; staminate spike terminal, sessile 

 or very nearly so; pistillate spikes 1 to 3, several-many- 

 flowered, the upper sessile or very nearly so and closely 

 approximate, the third, when present, remote and borne 

 on a long stalk; bracts similar to the leaves, usually erect 

 and overtopping the culm ; perigynia lanceolate, 4"~j" long, 

 less than 1" thick at the base, narrow, scarcely inflated, 

 erect or spreading, tapering into a subulate 2-toothed beak, 

 rather strongly many-nerved, about twice as long as the 

 lanceolate or ovate, acute or short-acuminate scale; achenes 

 oblong-obovoid, ii" long; stigmas 3. 



In bogs and wet meadows, Labrador and Newfoundland to 

 New Hampshire, New York and Pennsylvania, west to Mich- 

 igan. Ascends to 5000 ft. in New Hampshire. Also in eastern 

 Asia. June-Sept. 



213. Carex folliculata L. Long Sedge. Fig. 1080. 



Carex folliculata L. Sp. PI. 978. 1753. 



C. xanthophysa Wahl. Vet. Akad. Handl. 24 : 152. 1803. 



Glabrous, light green or yellowish, culm stout or slender, 

 erect or reclining, i4°-34° long. Leaves broad and elongated, 

 sometimes overtopping the culm, 2"-8" wide ; staminate spike 

 stalked or nearly sessile; pistillate spikes 2-5, usually distant, 

 all except the uppermost slender-stalked, several-many-flow- 

 ered, the lower often nodding on a long stalk; bracts com- 

 monly overtopping the spikes; perigynia lanceolate, slightly 

 inflated, ascending or spreading, rather prominently many- 

 veined, 6"-8" long, 1 J" in diameter near the base, tapering 

 from below the middle into a slender 2-toothed beak, one- 

 third to one-half longer than the awned, broadly scarious- 

 margined, persistent scale ; achenes oblong-obovoid, if" long ; 

 long; stigmas 3. 



In swamps and wet woods, Newfoundland to Michigan, south 

 to North Carolina. May-Sept. 



214. Carex miliaris Michx. Northeastern Sedge. Fig. 1081. 



Carex miliaris Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 174. 1803. 

 Carex saxatilis var. miliaris Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 9 : 120. 



1884. 



Glabrous, culm very slender, erect, smooth below in- 

 florescence, little filamentose at base, i°-2° tall, the 

 rootstocks creeping. Leaves about 1" wide, elongated, 

 nodulose, the upper about equalling the culm; bracts 

 similar to the leaves, often overtopping the culm ; 

 staminate spikes 1 or 2, stalked, narrowly linear; pis- 

 tillate spikes 1-3, slender, oblong-cylindric, many-flow- 

 ered, 4"-l' long, about 2j"-3i" thick ; the upper sessile, 

 the lowest more or less stalked; perigynia not inflated, 

 ovoid, faintly few-nerved or nerveless, i"-ii" long, 

 brown-tipped, tapering into a short, emarginate beak, 

 slightly longer than the ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 wholly or partly brown, obtusish to cuspidate scale; 

 stigmas 2. 



Borders of lakes and streams, Labrador and Hudson 

 Bay, south to central Maine. Probably intergrades with 

 the next. Summer. 



