Carex Backii Boot, p. 7
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59 Carex Backii, Boot.
Spike simple, the sterile flowers (three)
at the apex, inconspicuous; perygina 2 to 4 loose
globore=obovoid, with a conical beak, smooth;
achemium globore=pyriform, scarcely dolled; stigma
three, smooth.
Culms six inches high.
Plate VIII fig 4 - a The spike or head of
flowers, the lower leaf=like scale reflexed to show
the flowers. b The perigynium; c achemum
d scale.
Ohio, and about Lake Superior (N W.D. Whitney):
also in the Arctic Regions, and in Northern New
York
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