. 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. reseence compact, the 8-14 obovoid ascending aomewhat crowded gray-green or dull-brown spikes 7-12 mm. long; perigynia mm. long, their tips appressed. — Swales and rich open woods, N. B. to Sask.,, and southvv. June-Sept. Fig. 343. Var. turbXta Bailey. Spikes remote.— Less common. Var. reddcta Bailey. Inflorescence usually flexuous, at least the lowest spikes scattered ; perigynia with loosely recurved tips. (Var. moniliformis Brit- ton, i
. 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. reseence compact, the 8-14 obovoid ascending aomewhat crowded gray-green or dull-brown spikes 7-12 mm. long; perigynia mm. long, their tips appressed. — Swales and rich open woods, N. B. to Sask.,, and southvv. June-Sept. Fig. 343. Var. turbXta Bailey. Spikes remote.— Less common. Var. reddcta Bailey. Inflorescence usually flexuous, at least the lowest spikes scattered ; perigynia with loosely recurved tips. (Var. moniliformis Brit- ton, in part.) — Gulf of St. Lawrence to Ont., s. to Ct., N. Y., and la. Fig. 844. 4. C. sicca ta Dewey.' Culms slender, 1-6 dm. high; leaves stiff, 1-3 mm. wide; inflorescence of 3-7 approximate or scattered glossy brown spikes, the staininate and pistillate flowers variously mixed or in distinct spikes; perigynia obviously distended over the achene, 2 mm. broad, usually with distinct serrulate wings. — Dry or sandy soil. Me. to B. C. and Alaska, s. to Mass., Ct., N. .Y., 0., Mich., and westw. May-July. Fig. 345. 5. 0. Crawf6rdii Fernald. Slender, the culms forming close stools; leaves narrow ( mm. wide), often equaling or exceeding the culms ; inflorescence dull brown, subcylindric or ovoid, often sub- 845. 0. siccata tended by an elongate filiform bract; spikes 3-12, subcylindric or narrowly ovoid, ascending, 3-7 mm. long, approximate; the linear- lanceolate perigynia plump at base, about 1 mm. wide. (C. ^^'q crawfordU scoparia, var. minor Boott.) — Open soil, rarely in woods, Nfd. to B. C, s. to n. Ct., and Mich. June- Sept. Fig. 346. Var. vIgens Fernald. Stouter throughout; culms 3-6 dm. high; leaves mm. broad; spikes mostly greener and longer, densely crowded.—Less common. Fig. 347. 6. C. oronfinsis Fernald. Culms few in loose stools, tall and erect, m. high, sharply angled and harsh above ; leaves smooth, mm. broad, much shorter than the culm
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