. 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. J. brachycarpus Inflorescence x %. Fruiting flower x 'â , 31. J. TorrSyi Coville. Similar to tlie last; stem stouter ( m. high) with thick leaves; heads few and large ( cm. in diameter), 30-80-flowered; anthers linear, shorter than the filamtints. {J. nodosus, "^ var. megacephalus Torr.) â Low sandy soil, Mass. to Sask., westw. and southw. July-Oct. Fig. 592. 32. J. brachycArpus Engelm. Stem erect (4-9 dm. high), from a thick whit
. 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. J. brachycarpus Inflorescence x %. Fruiting flower x 'â , 31. J. TorrSyi Coville. Similar to tlie last; stem stouter ( m. high) with thick leaves; heads few and large ( cm. in diameter), 30-80-flowered; anthers linear, shorter than the filamtints. {J. nodosus, "^ var. megacephalus Torr.) â Low sandy soil, Mass. to Sask., westw. and southw. July-Oct. Fig. 592. 32. J. brachycArpus Engelm. Stem erect (4-9 dm. high), from a thick white horizontal rootstock, bearing about 2 leaves and 2-10 densely flowered spherical heads (7-11 mm. in diameter) in a slightly spreading crowded cyme much exceed- ing the involucral leaf; flowers pale green (4 mm. long) ; anthers much shorter than the filaments; style very short; seeds ( mm. long) abruptly apiculate. â Damp light soil, Mass. to N. C. ; Ont. to Miss, and Tex. June-Aug. Fig. 593. 33. J. scirpoides Lam. Stem erect ( dm. high), rather slender, from a thick horizontal rootstock, bearing aboul 2 terete leaves with wide and open sheaths, and a cyme of few or many densely flowered pale green irregularly spheri- cal heads, much longer than the involucral leaf, its branches erect and often elongated ; heads (G-13 mm. in .diameter) 15-40-flowered ; flowers 3-4 mm. long; sepals and petals rigid, awl-shaped and (especially the sepals) bristly-pointed, at length pungent, as long as the stamens and nearly equaling the oblong-triangular taper-pointed 1-celled capsule ; anthers very small ; style elongated or very short; seeds ovoid, abruptly pointed at each end ( mm. long.) âWet sandy soil, N. Y. to Fla., Mo., and Tex. July-Sept. 34. J. megacephalus M. A. Curtis. Stouter; leaves terete ; branches of the compact cyme short; heads larger, spherical, 40-80-flowered ; flowers 4 mm. long; sepals and petals narrower and more sharply pointed, the sepals a little longer
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