. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 507. C. assini- boinensis. Var. pumila (Cosson & Germain) Fernald. Plant dm high; pistillate spikes 3-10, mostly crowded. (G. vtridula Michx.; O. flava, var. viridula Bailey.) â Nfd. to B. C, s. to N. E., Pa., 0., Ind., etc. (Ku.) Fig. 506. assiniboinSusis W. Boott. Tufted, slender, dm, high, purpUsli-hrown at base; leaves 2-3 mm. vfide, the bracts short, rarely prolonged ; staminate spike long-stalked, 2-3 cm. long; pist
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 507. C. assini- boinensis. Var. pumila (Cosson & Germain) Fernald. Plant dm high; pistillate spikes 3-10, mostly crowded. (G. vtridula Michx.; O. flava, var. viridula Bailey.) â Nfd. to B. C, s. to N. E., Pa., 0., Ind., etc. (Ku.) Fig. 506. assiniboinSusis W. Boott. Tufted, slender, dm, high, purpUsli-hrown at base; leaves 2-3 mm. vfide, the bracts short, rarely prolonged ; staminate spike long-stalked, 2-3 cm. long; pistillate spikes 2, very remote, peduncled, with 3-6 remote alternate flowers; perigynia mm. long, lance-subulate, about equaling the scales. â Damp thickets and gravelly shores, Man. and n. Minn. June. Fig. 507. 141. C. longir6stris Torr. Slender but erect, m. high, growing in stools, the base dull brown and re- taining coarse shreddy tufts; leaves 3-4 mm. wide, flat, loose; staminate spikes 1-4, pe- duncled ; jyistillate spikes 2-5, 1-5 cm. long, loosely flowered, slender-peduncled and mostly drooping: perigynia thin, slightly inflated, green, spreading, about the length of the awned, scales. â Rocky woods or dry alluvial thickets, N. B. to Sask., N. J., Pa., and Neb., local. May- July. Fig. 508. 142. C. cherokefinsis Schwein. Rather slender, 2-7 dm high, the base castaneous; leaves flat, the basal 3-6 mm. broad ; staminate spikes 2-4, whitish; pistillate 2-10, remote, often in 2'sor 3's, cm. long; perigynia conic- ovoid, pale green or straw-color, promi- nently few-ribbed, slightly exceeding the broad pale scales. â Woods^ and river swamps, Ga. and Fla. to Tex.; northw. in the flat country to Mo. April, May. Fig. 509. 143. C. castSnea Wahlenb. Slender but erect, 3-9 dm. high ; leaves, 3-6 mm. broad, flat, hairy, much shorter than the rough culm ; staminate spike mm. 508 0 lonirirostris 'ong. "^ery short-peduncled; i)is«j7Za«espifces â 2-5
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