. 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. 670. J, interioi-. Inflorescence x %. the ovoid retuse scarcely pointed green falsely 1-celled cap- sule ; anthers much shorter than the filaments; style very short; seeds small (3-4 mm. long), delicately ribbed and cross-lined. — Fields and roadsides, very common. June-Sept. (Eu., n. Afr.) Fig. 569. Var. antheUtus Wiegand. Tall (4-9 dm. high) and loose; cyme loose, 6-18 CHS. long; flowers usually mm. long. — Me. to Mo. and Tex. Var. Wil


. 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. 670. J, interioi-. Inflorescence x %. the ovoid retuse scarcely pointed green falsely 1-celled cap- sule ; anthers much shorter than the filaments; style very short; seeds small (3-4 mm. long), delicately ribbed and cross-lined. — Fields and roadsides, very common. June-Sept. (Eu., n. Afr.) Fig. 569. Var. antheUtus Wiegand. Tall (4-9 dm. high) and loose; cyme loose, 6-18 CHS. long; flowers usually mm. long. — Me. to Mo. and Tex. Var. Williirasii Fernald. Compara- tively low ( dm. high) and slender ; inflorescence 3-8 cm. long ; capsule about equaling the calyx. — Gulf of St. Law- rence to Ct. and N. Y. (Eu.) 5. J. interior Wiegand. Compara- tively stout, dm. high ; leaves about Sheath" with auricles °^^ tl"rd as long as the scapes ; inflores- X 2, cence 3-10 dm. long, with very ascend- ing branches, the flowers 3-4 mm. long; capsule obscurely 3-oeUed ; anthers much shorter than the filaments; seeds mm. long.—Prairies, 111. to "Wyo. and Tex. Fig. 570. 6. J. mon6stichus Bartlett. Erect, 8-5 dm. tall; culms compressed; leaves basal, J-J as long as the culms, the blades involute in drying, the auricles as in J. tenuis; inflorescence 4-8 cm. long, much exceeded by the lowest bract, finally stramineous, the branches cm. long, often incurved, bearing 3-9 secund flowers ; perianth 4-5 mm. long, the sepals lance-acuminate, entirely concealing the trig- onous-ovoid falsely 1-celled capsule (2 mm. long); seeds ovoid, coarsely reticulate, with longitudinally oblong areoles. — Ind. and Ark. Fig. 571. 7. J. seciindus Beauv. Strict (1-8 dm. high); the short flat leaves mostly tufted, rarely more than one third as long as the scapes; sheaths with rounded membranous auricles; inflorescence 3-14 cm. long, the branches closely flowered; sepals erect, barely exceeding th


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