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

123 Carex Careyana, Dewey.

Sterile spike single; fertile spikes 2 or 3 ovoid or oblong about 5 flowered, on stalks about the length of the spikes; perigynia ovoid-triquetrous striate, large; bracts green, the upper about equal to the spikes, the lower exceeding them; leaves dark green, all radical, very broad, striate. Culms 1 to 2 feet high; Flowers in May.

Rich moist or marshy grounds in woods.

Plate X Fig. b. A the pikes; b the perigynium and stigmas; c scale; d achenium; e section of the achenium.

Ohio. Extends Eastward to New York.

124 Carex platyphylla, Carey.

Sterile spike one; fertile spikes 3, filiform loosely 3 flowered, remote, on short stalks; perigynia ovoid-triquestrous, nerved, small; leaves all radical, very broad, nerved, pale or whitish green. Culms slender about a foot high, flowers in May.

Ohio. Eastward to New England.

125 Carex retrocurva, Dewey.

Sterile spike solitary, short, clubshape; fertile ovoid or oblong, compactly 3 to 5 flowered, on long drooping stalks, remote; perigynia ovoidtriquetrous; leaves glaucous, nerved. Culm 6 to 12 inches high; flowers in May. -- Hill sides. --

Ohio. Eastward to N. England.

126 Carex digitalis, Willdenow

Syn. C. oligocarpa Schw. (not of Schk) C. Vanvleckii Schw. C. Nleckii Spreng.

Sterile spike solitary, clubshaped, stalked; fertile spikes 2 to 4, linear-oblong, loosely 6 to 9 flowered, on long stalks, the lowest sometimes drooping; bracts leaflike, the uppermost exceeding the culm; perigynia ovoid-triquetrous, tapering at each end; leaves and bracts narrow, dark green. Culms 6 to 12 inches high. Flowers in May. Hill sides.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Southern Indiana. Michigan. Extends Eastward to N. England, northward to the Arctic regions, and South to Florida

Fla

127 Carex anceps, Willdenow.

Syn. C. planlaginea sch K. (not of Lam) C. heterosperma Wahl.

Sterile spike single, linear, pedunculate; fertile spikes 2 to 4, erect, alternate, loose=flowered, with a zigzag rachis, the upper near the base of the sterile nearly sessile, the others pedunculate; bracts leaflike, sheathing, the uppermost exceeding the culm; perigynia oval, obtusely triangular, striate, narrowed at each end, about the length of the scale. Culm about a foot high acutely triangular; flowers in May. Grows in dry woods.—

(The [broad leaved] variety with road leaves + [sheath] bracts, milwaukee Wisconsin.)

Wiscsonsin, Illinios, Southern Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Extends from Florida and Texas to the arctic regions. [and]