. 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. , laxiiiora. trigonous-ovoid, twice longer than tlie very thin obtuse scales. — Low woods, Mass. to i'la. and La., local. June, July. Fig. 481. ^127. C. laxiflbra Lam. Slender but mostly erect, dm. high ; basal leaves mm. wide, rather soft; stami- nate spike pedwicled or at least conspicuous; pistillate spikes 2-4, scattered, peduncled or tlie upper one sessile, loosely flowered, cylin- dric, cm. long, erect or the lower loosel
. 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. , laxiiiora. trigonous-ovoid, twice longer than tlie very thin obtuse scales. — Low woods, Mass. to i'la. and La., local. June, July. Fig. 481. ^127. C. laxiflbra Lam. Slender but mostly erect, dm. high ; basal leaves mm. wide, rather soft; stami- nate spike pedwicled or at least conspicuous; pistillate spikes 2-4, scattered, peduncled or tlie upper one sessile, loosely flowered, cylin- dric, cm. long, erect or the lower loosely spreading ; perigynia obovoid, conspicuously nerved, the short entire beak much bent or re- curved; scales thin and , mostly shorter than the perigynia.—Rich woods and meadows, e. Que. to w. Ont., and southw. May-July. Fig. 482. — Exceedingly variable, passing by many transi- tions to the following. Var. gracillima Bnott. Similar; but with short ( cm. long) oblong closer-flowered spikes. — Vt. to Ont., and southw. Fig. 483. Var. patulifblia (Dewey) Carey. Leaves cm. broad; staminate spike prominent, mostly stalked; pistillate spikes long ( cm.) and alternately flowered, scattered and peduncled ;peng', ellipsoid, attenuate at both ends, mostly less prominently nerved, and the beak not strongly repurved. — Me. to Va., O., Mich., and Ont. Fig. 484. Var. Michauxii Bailey. Tall and compara- tively stout, 4-6 dm. high ; leaves cm. broad ; staminate spike large and stalked ; pis- tillate spikes scattered, all but the upper one prominently peduncled, cm. long; perigynia very iarge, 4-5 mm. long, divaricate. (Var. divari- cata Bailey.) — Pa. to Ala. and Tex. Fig. 485. Var. styloflfixa (Buckley) Boott. Very weafc and slender, 3-9 dm. high ; leaves 3-6 mm. wide ; stam- inate spike usually peduncled; pistillate 2-3, scattered, few-flow- ered, cm. long, lowest droop- ing ; perigynia oblong-fusiform, 4
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