Field notebook : New England
Page 39
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Harvard University Botany Libraries. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
[3?] [C. glaucoidea Tuckerm G 244; B1/3I 406 See 6-34-38 6-16-38 Carex Adv. for. Near the Lolium. Tufted (no stolons) with many culms & many sterile shoots. Glaucoea smooth to touch. ? glabrous. I saw sterile shoots 10 mm wide, or at to 6mm wide. 2 rufae bracts over top culm about 1 in. (over 2 in). Bracts leaf-like w/with long green sheathes. ? Spike about 15mm long, pale, short peduncle (But hardly visible), projecting slightly i.e. to about half its own length) or not at all beyond ruppermost ? apike. ? spikes 3-4; uppermost sessile v almost so the rest on slender peduncles, the lowest often excutated half-way down the culm or very slender, long peduncle. ? spikes now green, usually 2 cm long (also short 1cm., largest 2.5 cm) x about 4 mm thick, cylindrica & closely fld. Perigynia 3mm x 1.8mm w/with a few distinct ribs (which R.B.K. would call depressed?), plump v loose on achene. Beaks minute, bent as in Goill of C. laxi- flora #242) but achene not now tapered to base. Scales thin, white, the green midnervs projecting beyond acuminate tip but not at all roughened. No desc. in G. alena to fit now. When I rere consider C. laxiflora again. If not that say #131-135. 6-16-38 929 Seedling 6-16-38 930 Seedling