. 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. JTJNCACEAE (RUSH FAMILY) 600. J. repens. Inflorescence x %. about the length of the sheathing scarious awl-pomterl bract; flowers pale and reddish (3-4 mm. long) ; sepals lanceolate, acute; petals Dbtusish, J the length of the trigonous-ovoid acute or acuminate pale capsule (5-0 mm. long), as long as the slender stamens ; filaments many times longer than the oblong anthers ; recurved stigmas shorter than the style; seeds oblong, with a very loos
. 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. JTJNCACEAE (RUSH FAMILY) 600. J. repens. Inflorescence x %. about the length of the sheathing scarious awl-pomterl bract; flowers pale and reddish (3-4 mm. long) ; sepals lanceolate, acute; petals Dbtusish, J the length of the trigonous-ovoid acute or acuminate pale capsule (5-0 mm. long), as long as the slender stamens ; filaments many times longer than the oblong anthers ; recurved stigmas shorter than the style; seeds oblong, with a very loose coat prolonged at both ends ( mm. long). — Eurasia. Var. americSnus Buchenau. Often taller ( dm. high) ; heads 1 or 2; flowers larger ( mm. long); the distinctly mucronate-tlpped capsule longer (6-9 mm. long) ; seeds 3-4 mm. long. — Peat^bogs, Lab. and Nfd. to Ont., s. to X. S., Me., X. Y., Mich., and Jliun., very local. July, Aug. (E. Prussia.) 42. J. ripens Michx. Stems ascending ( dm. high) from a fibrous annual root, at length creeping or floating; leaves short, linear, those of the stem nearly opposite and fascicled; heads few in a loose leafy cyme, 3-12-flowered; flowers green ( cm. long) ; sepals and petals rigid, lance- subulate, sepals as long as the' linear triangular obtuse capsule, the petals much longer; stamens as long as the sepals; fila- ments much longer than the oblong anthers; seeds obovoid, slightly pointed, very delicately ribbed and cross-lined. — Miry banks and ditches, Del. to Fla. and La. June-Oet. F ig. fji lO. 'j/43. J. margin^tus Eostk. Stem erect, from a bulbous and stoloniferous base (2-7 dm. high) ; leaves linear; heads 3-12-flowered, in simple or compound cymes ; flowers purplish and green ( mm. long) ; sepals and petals oblong, the sepals acute and slightly awned, petals longer, mostly obtuse, as long as the subglobose scarcely mucronate cap- sule ; stamens shorter than the sepals, early shriveling ; anthers
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