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CAREX leporina.
Small Ovate-Spiked Carex.
MONOECIA Triandria.
Gen. Char. Flowers diclinous, in a closely imbricated
spike. Scales single-flowered. Male:
Perianth none. Stamens 3. Female: Perianth
monophyllous, capsular, persistent, contracted
at the top, awnless at the base. Stigmas
2 or 3. Nut included within the enlarged perianth.
Spec. Char. Spikelets 3, rarely 4, barren below,
ovate, contiguous. Fruit elliptical, rostrate, planoconvex,
nerved on both sides, with an emarginate,
scarious, and finally entire mouth, scarcely larger
than the ovate, obtuse scale. Stigmas 2.
Syn. Carex leporina. Linn. FI. Lapp. ed. 2. 261.
Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 229. Schk. t. F. f . f . f . Jig.
129. Decand. Synop. FI. Gall. 140. Schleich.
Cat. PI. Helv. exsic.
C. Lachenalii. Schk. t. Y. 79.
C. lagopina. Wahl. Act. Holm. ann. 1803. 145.
FI. Lapp. 229.
C. approximata. Hoppe. (non Allion.) Gaudin
Agrost. Helv. 107. Thom. Cat. PI. Helv. exsic.
C. parvifiora. Gaudin Etr. de FI. 84. (non Host.)
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O T EM 4—8 inches high, triangular, smooth, rarely rough
below the spikes as noticed by Gaudin. Leaves a line
broad, shorter than the stem, carinate, rough at the margins