. 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. 244 CYPEEACEAE (SEDGE FAMILY) C. places, N. B. to Ont., s. to Pa. and la.; and in the mts. to N. C, May-Aug. Fig. 493. 1/ 132. C. grisea Wahlenb. Stout, 3-8 dm. high; leaves 3-7 mm, broad, sliglitly glaucous; bracts broad and leaf- like, diverging, very much exceeding the culm ; stamiiiate spike small and sessile; pistillate spikes 3-5, oblong, cm. long, 4-7 mm. thick, the highest two usually contiguous to the staminate spike
. 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. 244 CYPEEACEAE (SEDGE FAMILY) C. places, N. B. to Ont., s. to Pa. and la.; and in the mts. to N. C, May-Aug. Fig. 493. 1/ 132. C. grisea Wahlenb. Stout, 3-8 dm. high; leaves 3-7 mm, broad, sliglitly glaucous; bracts broad and leaf- like, diverging, very much exceeding the culm ; stamiiiate spike small and sessile; pistillate spikes 3-5, oblong, cm. long, 4-7 mm. thick, the highest two usually contiguous to the staminate spike and sessile, the others somewhat remote and peduncled (but not from the lowest axils), all erect; perigynia oblong, pointless, marked with impressed nerves, turgid and cylin- dric, appressed-ascending, mm. long, all but the lowest longer than the narrow, cuspi- date or blunt, nerved scale. •—Low woods and meadows, s. Me., westw. and southw. May, June. F16. 494. Var. EfoiDA Bailey. Much more slender ; leaves scarcely half so wide ; the bracts, especially, much narrower and shorter and more erect; spikes slender; perigynia scarcely inflated, triangular-oblong, bearing a beak-lihe point, 2-ranked. (Var. angustifolia Man. ed. 6, not Boott.) — Local, Mass. and N. Y., southw. Var. &lob6sa Bailey. Very slen4er; spikes few-flowered, often with but 2 or 3 f perigynia; perigynium short, inflated, very blunt, nearly globose or obovoid; scale short, not prominently cuspidate or the upper ones wholly blunt. — Mo., Kan., and southw. Var. angustifftlia Boott. Leaves rather narrow, long and erect; staminate spike often peduncled; pistillate spikes very scattered, all more or less stalked, the lowest borne from near the base; perigynia tri- angular-oblong, hard, longer than the cuspi- date ascending scale. (G. amphibola Steud.) — D. C. to Fla. and Tex. Fig. 496. 133. C. glaucbdea Tuckerm. Lax or some- what strict (1-6 dm. high), densely glaucous ; leaves flat, thick and fi
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