Box 15, Folder 11: Grass like Plants of Wisconsin, 1855

108 Carex Meadii, Dewey

Sterile spike solitary, long peduncled, club-shaped; fertile spikes two, oblong, round, rather loosely flowered, pedunculate, or the upper nearly sessile, with leafy sheathing bracts, shorter than the culm; perigynia ovate, becoming obovate by the growth of the achenium, obtuse, nerved, with a very short recurved beak; longer than the ovate bract acute or acuminate scale; achenium triquetrous, flattened at top, contracted towards the base, distinctly clotted under a lens. Culms 8 to 16 inches high, flowers in May. Grows on prairies and in oak openings.

Milwaukee to La Crosse in Wisconsin; Illinois, Ohio, & Michigan. Extends southward to N. Orleans.

Very near, if not identical with C. panicea Linnaeus, a native of Europe.

109 Carex tetanica, Schkur.

Syn. C. conoidea, Gray (not of Schk.)

Sterile spike single, on an elevated stalk; fertile spikes 1 to 3, usually two, oblong-cylindrical, loosely flowered, remote; perigynia when young pointed at each end, at maturity obovoid, scarcely inflated, with a slightly bent point, longer than the ovate pointed or awned scale; achenium ovoid-triquetrous, indistinctly dotted under a lens; bracts shorter than the culm. Culm 12 to 18 inches high flowers in May. Moist woods &c.

Wisconsin, Illinois, Southern Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan

110 Carex Grawei, Dewey

Syn. C. heterostachya Dewey.

Fertile spike solitary, or with one or two short additional ones at the base; fertile 3 to 6, remote the lowest near the root, oblong or cylindrical; perigynia ovoid-oblong, obscurely nerved, longer than the rather obtuse scale; chenium obovate, triquetrous, tapering at the base. Culms 4 to 8 inches high; flowers in May. Wet boggy places.

Wisconsin, and Michigan. Has been found only in these locations and in N. York.

111 Carex granularis, Muhlenberg.

Sterile spike solitary, sessile; fertile spikes 2 to 4 cylindrical, oblong, dense-flowered, nearly erect, sometimes with one or more short branches at the base; perigynia roundish-ovate, nerved, very short-beaked, and round, [crossed out] longer than the ovate-acuminate scale; bracts exceeding the culm. Culm 12 to 18 inches high; flowers in May. Wet places.--

Plate X fig 3 -- a head of spikes and bracts one fourth the natural size; b a fertile spike; c perigynium, stigmas, & scale; d section of the perigynium e achenium; f section of the achenium; g the staminate flower; h section of the culm.

Wisconsin, Illinois, Southern Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and about Lake Superior from S. Carolina to the Arctic regions.

112 Carex conoidea, Schkur.

Sterile spike solitary, long peduncled, fertile spikes 2 to 3 oblong, closely flowered, the lower distant, and on "long slender stalk; perigynium oblong-conic, with impressed nerves, slightly oblique at the summit; achenium obovate, or pearshaped, triquetrous; scales with several strong nerves near the keel, the lower awned and longer than the perigynium, the upper acute and shorter than the perigynium; bracts about equalling the culm.

Illinois, Southern Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. Extends from N. Carolina to the arctic regions.