. 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. CYPERACBAB (SEDGB FAMILY) 221. 0. festucacea. 865. C. Bebbii. leaves stiff, erect, shorter than the culms, 2-4 mm. wide, the sheath with a thin barely nerved or nerveless pale hand f.'ctendiiig down from the membranous auricle ; inflorescence cylindrio, rarely ovoid, of 5-10 distinct or rarely approxi- mate subglobose or broadly ovoid-conic yellow-brown or green- brown ascending spikes (7-12 mm. long); perigynia broad- ovate to suborbicular, str
. 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. CYPERACBAB (SEDGB FAMILY) 221. 0. festucacea. 865. C. Bebbii. leaves stiff, erect, shorter than the culms, 2-4 mm. wide, the sheath with a thin barely nerved or nerveless pale hand f.'ctendiiig down from the membranous auricle ; inflorescence cylindrio, rarely ovoid, of 5-10 distinct or rarely approxi- mate subglobose or broadly ovoid-conic yellow-brown or green- brown ascending spikes (7-12 mm. long); perigynia broad- ovate to suborbicular, strongly l-lb-nerved on the outer, nerveless or faintly nerved on the inner face; achenes sub- orbicular. (0. straminea, var. Tuckerm.) — Dry or rocky soil, Me. to Man. and Pa. June-Aug. Pig. 363. Var. brdvior (Dewey) Fernald. Lower, rarely more than m. high, and more slender; spikes 3-6,. approximate or subap- proximate. (C. straminea, var. Dewey.) — Commoner, reaching B. C, Ark., etc. May- July. Pig. 364. 18. C. B6bbii Olney. Culms rather slen- der, 2-6 dm. high, smooth except at tip; leaves mostly shorter, ascending but not stiff, mm. wide; inflorescence short, com- pact, ovoid to ellipsoid, brown, 1-2 cm. long, of 3-12 globose or ellipsoid ascending spikes (6-8 mm. long); perigynia narrowly ovate, mm. long, mm. broad, mostly dull broion, and loosely aaoending, faintly feiv-nerved or nerveless; scales oblong, bluntly acuminate. (C. tribuloides, var. Bailey.) — Low grounds, Nld. to w. Mass., N. Y., 111., Col., B. C., and northw. June-Aug. Fig. 365. 19. C. foenea Willd. Culms slender and lax, smooth except at tip, 3-9 dm. high ; leaves soft and loose, pale green or glaucous, mostly shorter, 2-4 mm. broad ; inflorescence linear-cylindric or moniliform, erect or flexuous, of 4-9 globose or ovoid clavate-based appressed- ascending whitish-green or silvery-brown spikes (6-10 mm. long); perigynia ovate, 3^ mm. long, mm. broad, appressed-ascending,
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