. 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. . S. Peokii. 2-7 ; scales oblong-ovate, aoutish or obtuse, blackish- ferruginous above the pale base; achene soft, whitish, oblong. — Meadows and bogs, N. H., Vt., and n. N. Y July, Aug. Fig. 303. 32. S. cyperinus (L.) Kunth. (Wool Grass.) Culm nearly terete ( m. high) ; leaves narrovyly linear, long, rigid, those of the involucre 3-5, longer than the loose umbel ( dm. long), the tips of the rays at length drooping; involucels reddish-
. 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. . S. Peokii. 2-7 ; scales oblong-ovate, aoutish or obtuse, blackish- ferruginous above the pale base; achene soft, whitish, oblong. — Meadows and bogs, N. H., Vt., and n. N. Y July, Aug. Fig. 303. 32. S. cyperinus (L.) Kunth. (Wool Grass.) Culm nearly terete ( m. high) ; leaves narrovyly linear, long, rigid, those of the involucre 3-5, longer than the loose umbel ( dm. long), the tips of the rays at length drooping; involucels reddish-brown ; spikelets exceedingly numerous, ovoid, clustered, woolly at maturity (3-6 mm. long) ; the rust-colored bristles much longer than the pointless reddish-brown scales; achene short-pointed. (Eriophorum, L.) —Wet meadows and swamps, N. E. to Va., Tenn., and Ark. Aug., Sept. Fig. 304. Var. ANDREwsiiFernald. Involucels reddish-brown ; spikelets cylindric, 7-10 mm. long. — Local, Ct. Var. p§lius Fernald. Involucels blackish at base; bristles drab or smoke-color. — The common form northw. ; Md. to Ont., s. to Ct., N. Y., and Mich. — Perhaps dis- tinct. Var. condensXtus Fernald. Similar, but with rays all or nearly all abbreviated, the glomerules in dense irregular masses. —Local, range of last. 33. S. Erifiphonim Michx. Coarse and tall (1-2 m.) ; the culm mm. thick below the ample ( dm. high) inflorescence; leaves pale green, firm, 6-11 mm. broad; rays very elongate, mostly ascending, drooping at tip; tht involucels deep red-brown or terra-cotta; spikelets ovoid, 3-6 mm. long, the lateral pediceled ; scales red-brown ; wool slightly paler. — Mostly near the coast, Ct. to Fla., La., and Ark. July-Sept. 34. S. pediceimtus Fernald. Similar; the culm rather stout (2-4 mm. thick below the inflorescence) ; leaves pale green, firm, 3-10 mm. broad; inflorescence ample, dm. high, the numerous ascending subequal rays very slender, with nodding ti
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