. 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. C, atrata, v. ovata. 79. C atrita L., var. ovllta (Rudge) Boott. Very slender but erect, 2-9 dm. high; culm rather sharp, roughish above ; leaves narrow but flat, shorter than the culm; spikes 3-6, all but the terminal one on slender stalks, drooping when niatui'e, cm. long, ellip- soid or short oylindrio, reddish-brown to purplish-black; perigynia broadly ovate, thin and puncticulate, very short- beaked, ihe orifice slightly notched; scal
. 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. C, atrata, v. ovata. 79. C atrita L., var. ovllta (Rudge) Boott. Very slender but erect, 2-9 dm. high; culm rather sharp, roughish above ; leaves narrow but flat, shorter than the culm; spikes 3-6, all but the terminal one on slender stalks, drooping when niatui'e, cm. long, ellip- soid or short oylindrio, reddish-brown to purplish-black; perigynia broadly ovate, thin and puncticulate, very short- beaked, ihe orifice slightly notched; scales blunt, thin- margined, about as long as the perigynia. ( C. atratiformis Britton.) â By streams and in cold ravines, Nfd. to Athabasca, locally s. to the mts. of n. N. E. June- Aug. Fig. 429. bO. C. polygama Schkuhr. Rather slender but stiff, 2-9 dm. high; culm sharp, roughish above ; leaves very nar- row, rough, mostly shorter than the culm ; spikes 2-7, the terminal rarely all staminate, sessile and approximate or the lowest very short- stalked, from globular to narrowly cylindrio, cm. long, 430 0 polygama. ^''â ^^ brovin or Variegated; perigynia elliptic and beakless, whitish and granular, nearly nerveless, the orifice entire; staminate scales very long-lanceolate, the pistillate lance-ovate and very sharp, conspicuously longer than the perigynia. (C. fusca Man. ed. 6, not All. ; G. Buxbaumii Wahlenb.) â Bogs and wet shores, e. Que. to Alaska, s. to Pa., Great Lake region. Mo., Utah, and Cal.; and in the mts. toN. C. May-Iuly. (Eu.) Fig. 430. 81. C. triceps Michx., var. hirsuta (Willd.) Bailey. Slender j leaves narrow, hairy; spikes 2-4 (usually 3), all contiguous or occasionally the lowest somewhat removed, sessile, thick-cylindric to globular, green or brown (4-7 mm. thick); perigynia broad- ovoid, flattish, very obtuse, often sparsely hirsute when young but smooth at maturity; staminate scales very sharp; pistillate scales acute or short- awned, about the leng
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