. 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. 359. C. BiolcnellU. ascending, rather i inflorescence of 3-7 silvery-brown or greenish ovoid, obovoid or subglobose approximate or slightly remote spikes (8-1-1 mm. long) ; perigynia ascending, trith broadly ovate or suborbl- ntlar bodies, the tips becoming conspicuous, broadly viing-mar- gined, when mature becoming almost translucent and about 10- nerved on each face. (C. stra- minea, var. Craioei Boott.) — Dry or rocky soil. Me. to Man., N. J.
. 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. 359. C. BiolcnellU. ascending, rather i inflorescence of 3-7 silvery-brown or greenish ovoid, obovoid or subglobose approximate or slightly remote spikes (8-1-1 mm. long) ; perigynia ascending, trith broadly ovate or suborbl- ntlar bodies, the tips becoming conspicuous, broadly viing-mar- gined, when mature becoming almost translucent and about 10- nerved on each face. (C. stra- minea, var. Craioei Boott.) — Dry or rocky soil. Me. to Man., N. J., 0., and Ark. — May-July. Fig. 359. 14. C. sillcea Olney. Culms slender, stiff, 3-8 dm. high ; leaves erectish, usually glaucous, mm. wide, often becoming involute; inflorescence of 3-12 usually remote conic-ovoid and clavatC' based whitish spil-es ( cm. long) ; perigynia firm and opaque, 4-5 mm. long, mm. broad, short-beaked, broad-winged, the body distinctly S-b-nerved on the inner, Q-\2-nei-ved on the outer face. (C. foenea, var. subu- lonum Gray.)—Sands and rocks near the sea. Gulf of St. Law- rence to N. J. June-Aug. Fig. 360. 15. C. al^ta Torr. Culms rather stout, smooth except at summit, m. high; leaves mostly short and harsh, mm. wide, the sheath green and strongly nerved nearly or quite to tbe narrow subchartaceous auricle ; head oblong or ovoid, of 3-8 compact approximate conic-ovoid or subcylindric spikes (8-15 mm. long); perigynia appressed-ascending, firm and opaque, broad- winged, very faintly nerved or nerveless, much broader than the usually rough-awned scales. (C straminea, var. Bailey.) — Marshes and wet woods, N. H. to Mich, and Fla. July. Fig. 361. 16. C. suber6cta (Olney) Britton. 3-5 irregularly clustered spikes finally tan-ny or ferruginous; perigynia ovate, 4-5 mm. long, mm. broad; scopes lanoe-ovate, mostly awnless. (0. tenera, var. Olney; C alata, var. ferruginea Fernald.) — Ont. and 0. to Mich., 111.,
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