. 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. 541. C'gigantea. C. lupuliformis. 171. C. gigantda Kudge. Loosely caespitose or somewhat &tolomtero\is, stout, m. high ; leaves cm. broad; staminate spikes 2-4 ; p^'stillate 2-4, scattered, the lowest long-peduncled and remote, rather loosely flowered, 3-7 cm. long, cm. thick; peri- yynia swollen below but very abruptly contracted into a slender beak 3-4 times as long as the body, spreading at right angles or nearly so,
. 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. 541. C'gigantea. C. lupuliformis. 171. C. gigantda Kudge. Loosely caespitose or somewhat &tolomtero\is, stout, m. high ; leaves cm. broad; staminate spikes 2-4 ; p^'stillate 2-4, scattered, the lowest long-peduncled and remote, rather loosely flowered, 3-7 cm. long, cm. thick; peri- yynia swollen below but very abruptly contracted into a slender beak 3-4 times as long as the body, spreading at right angles or nearly so, never becoming yellow; scales narrow, smooth. (C grandis Bailey.) — Swamps, Del., Ky., and Mo., southw. July-Sept. Fig. 541. 172. C. lupulif(5rmis Sartwell. Stout, tall, m. high; leaves cm. broad, conspicuously elongate; bracts broad and far ex- ceeding the culm; staminate spike usually peduncled; pistillate spikes 3-5, 3-8 cm. \ong, cylindrical ( cm. thick), at least the lower pe- duncled, erect or ascending, somewhat scattered or the upper approximate, becoming yellowish brown; perigynia narrowly conic-ovoid, cm. long, mostly twice exceed- ing the firm lance-attenuate scales, ascending. (C. lupu- lina, var. polystaehya Schwein. & Torr.) — Rich swamps, meadows, and prairies, Vt. to Minn., s. to Del., 111., and La. July-Oct. Fig. 542. 173. C. lupulina Muhl. Very stout and leafy, 4-9 dm. high ; leaves cm. broad, loose ; bracts broad and elongate ; pistillate spikes 2-6, approximate at the top of the culm, all closely sessile or the lower sometimes shorts peduncled, thick-cylindrical to subglobose, very heavy and densely flowered, 3-6 cm. long, 2-3 cm. thick; staminate spike sessile; perigynia much inflated, rather soft, cm. long, erect or but slightly spreading, giving the spike a hop-like aspect (whence the name); scales firm, lance- ovate, mostly much shorter than the perigynia.— Swamps and wet woods N. B., to Ont., Oct.
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