. 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. CYPERACEAE (sedge EAMILY) 241 lonrjer than the sharp scales. — Rich woods, to Man., s. to N. C, Ind., and 111. Fig. 476. 122. C. Careyana Torr. Tall and slender, mostly erect, 3-8 dm. high ; leaves bright green, firm, cm. wide, shorter than the long culm ; bracts leafy; staminate spike heavy and stalked, cm. long; pistillate spikes 2-3 (mostly 2), erect, the upper usually near the ter- minal spike, and nearly sessi
. 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. CYPERACEAE (sedge EAMILY) 241 lonrjer than the sharp scales. — Rich woods, to Man., s. to N. C, Ind., and 111. Fig. 476. 122. C. Careyana Torr. Tall and slender, mostly erect, 3-8 dm. high ; leaves bright green, firm, cm. wide, shorter than the long culm ; bracts leafy; staminate spike heavy and stalked, cm. long; pistillate spikes 2-3 (mostly 2), erect, the upper usually near the ter- minal spike, and nearly sessile, the other remote and long-pedunoled, loosely 2-8- flowered ; perigynia very sharply angled, the beak oblique, finely many-nerved, tioice longer than the sharp scales. — Rich woods, N. Y. and Ont. to Mich, and D. C, local. May, June. Fig. 477. 123. C. platyph^Ua Carey. Low, spreading, glaucous, 1-4 dm, high ; leaves mostly shorter than the culms; bracts with thin and sharp-pointed leaf-like tips; staminate spike stalked ; pistillate spikes 2-3, scattered, all more or less pe- duncled, alternately 2-10-flowered ; peri- gynia strongly many-striate, about the length of the acute or cuspidate scales. — Rich shady woods and banks, s. Me. to Ont., s. to Va. and 111. May, June. Fig. 478. t--124. C. lazicdlmis Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln, 1864-1935; Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, 1873-1950. New York, American Book Co
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