Carex Tenuiflora Wahlenberg, p. 28

80 Carex tenniflora Wahlenburg.

Spikes three, few flowered, approximate; ovate; perigynia ovate=oblong, plano=convex, about the length of the broadly ovate acute scale; achenium ovate. Culm Flowers in
Tamarac swamps

Plate VIII fig 16- a head of spikes; b, perigynium; c scale; d achenium and pistil, e staminate flower.

Milwaukee in Wisconsin; Michigan; about Lake Superior. Extends northward to the arctic regions, & eastward to N. England.