. 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 (SEDGB FAMILY) 237 4B4. C. , V. stanjinate spike clavate, 1-2 cm. long, sessile or short-stalked, usually reddish, rarely paler ; perigyiiia puberulent, globose to obovoid, the short beak I to ^ aa long as the body; the scales usually red-tinged. — Dry or sandy soil, s. Me. to Alb., and May, June. Fig. 453. J, Var. lucbrum (Willd.) Fernald. Perigynia puberulent to gla- ^% brate, the conspicuous slender beak ab
. 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 (SEDGB FAMILY) 237 4B4. C. , V. stanjinate spike clavate, 1-2 cm. long, sessile or short-stalked, usually reddish, rarely paler ; perigyiiia puberulent, globose to obovoid, the short beak I to ^ aa long as the body; the scales usually red-tinged. — Dry or sandy soil, s. Me. to Alb., and May, June. Fig. 453. J, Var. lucbrum (Willd.) Fernald. Perigynia puberulent to gla- ^% brate, the conspicuous slender beak about as long as the body. — ^(p Richer, usually damper soil, Me. to Mich., and the nits, of N. C. May-July. Fig. 4-54. 101. C. pubfescens Muhl. Xj&yi, 2-% dm.'hSg^ pubescent through- out; leaves flat ( cm. wide) and soft, shorter than the culm ; spikes 2-4, the upper approximate, the lower 1 or 2 short-peduncled, short-oylindrio, cm. long, loosely flow- ered., erect; perigynia very hairy, sharply S-angled, ously beaked and minutely toothed, straight, about the length of the truncate and rough-cuspidate thin scales.—Copses and moist meadows, N. E. to Ky., and westw., local. May, June. Fig. 455. 102. C. CARTopHTLi-tA Lat. Slightly stoloniferous, stiff; the culm sometimes curved, dm. high ; leaves flat, shorter than the culm; staminate spike prominently ... „ ' , clavate, mostly sessile; pistillate spikes 2-3, all 155. C. pubescens. ^. ' "^ ., ^ , r^ , x contiguous, sessile or the lowest very short- peduncled and subtended by a bract scarcely as long as itself, all ellipsoid or short-cylindric, the lowest cm. long; peri- gynia trigonous-obovoid, the very short beak entire or erose, thinly hispid-hirsute. (O. prae- cox Jacq.) —Fields, Me. to D. Q., local. May, June. (Nat. from Eu.) Fig. 456. 456. C. oaryoph. 103. C. GLAucA Scop. Very stoloniferous and glaucous; the culms siilf, 1-6 dm. high; leaves shorter, firm, with revolute
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