. 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. slightly if at all staminate at tip ; scales very sharp and spreading, longer than theperigynia. (C. Haydeni Dewey.) â Me. to Ky., Ont., and la. 72. C. aiirea Nutt. Low and slender, dm. high; leaves pale green, narrow (1-3 mm. wide); 2 or 3 of the bracts exceeding the culm ; spikes 3-5, all but the lowest usually approximate, peduncled or the upper one or two sessile, erect, loosely few-flowered or sometimes becoming 2 cm. long, at maturit
. 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. slightly if at all staminate at tip ; scales very sharp and spreading, longer than theperigynia. (C. Haydeni Dewey.) â Me. to Ky., Ont., and la. 72. C. aiirea Nutt. Low and slender, dm. high; leaves pale green, narrow (1-3 mm. wide); 2 or 3 of the bracts exceeding the culm ; spikes 3-5, all but the lowest usually approximate, peduncled or the upper one or two sessile, erect, loosely few-flowered or sometimes becoming 2 cm. long, at maturity yellow or brown, the terminal one fre- quently pistillate above ; periyynium fleshy at maturity, plump, nerved, about 2 mm. long, rounded or slightly depressed at tip, longer than the blunt white or pale-brown scale. â Wet meadows and springy banks, Nfd. to B. C, s. to n. Ct., centr. N. Y., Pa., Ind., Wise, etc., mostly in calcareous regions. June-July. Fig. 422. 73. C. bicolor All. Similar; spikes mostly crowded, only the lowermost subtended by an elongated bract, the others short-bracted or bract- less, the terminal mostly pistillate; mature peri- gynia dry and firm, white, pulverulent, tapering to ^ââ â bicolor the short tip; scales dark brown or purplish. â Wet ledges and gravelly shores, Lab. to n. Me.; n. shore L. Superior. June-Aug. (Greenl., Eu.) Fig. 423. 74. C. pauciflbra Lightf. Very slender but erect, stiff, dm. high; leaves very narrow, usually much shorter than the culm ; staminate and pistillate flowers 2-5 ; peri- gynia straw-color, subulate, several times longer than the inconspicuous scales, at maturity deflexed and easily detached. â â Cold bogs, Nfd. to Alaska, locally s. to Ct., Pa., Mich., Minn., etc. June, July. (Eu.) Fig. 424. 75. C. leptalea Wahlenb. Capillary, erect 424. C. pauciflora. °^ slightly diffuse, dm. high ; leaves mostly 425. C!. leptalea. shorter than the culm ; spike cm. long, staminate portion small, t
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