. 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. CYPERACEAE ([SEDGE FAMILY) 201 824. B. capillacea. Sept. Fig. 324. to Alaska, s. to Pla., Ky., the Great Lake region, and n. Cal, July-Sept. (Eurasia, Porto Rioo.) Fig. 323. Var. mIcra Clarke. Coarser, 4-8 dm. high; terminal corymb often 2-4 cm. broad. — The common southern form, extending n. to central N. Y. and Mass. ++ -w- Spikelets chestnut-colored, few-several-floioered; stamens 3 ; bristles usually 6. 12. R. capillacea Torr. Culm dm.
. 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. CYPERACEAE ([SEDGE FAMILY) 201 824. B. capillacea. Sept. Fig. 324. to Alaska, s. to Pla., Ky., the Great Lake region, and n. Cal, July-Sept. (Eurasia, Porto Rioo.) Fig. 323. Var. mIcra Clarke. Coarser, 4-8 dm. high; terminal corymb often 2-4 cm. broad. — The common southern form, extending n. to central N. Y. and Mass. ++ -w- Spikelets chestnut-colored, few-several-floioered; stamens 3 ; bristles usually 6. 12. R. capillacea Torr. Culm dm. high, slender; leaves bristle-furm; spikelets 3-0 in a ter- minal cluster, and commonly 1 or 2 on approximate or remote axilliary peduncles, oblong-laticeolate (pale 328. K. .ilba, chestnut-color); achene oblong-ovoid, stipitate, very obscurely wrinkled, about half the length of the (6, rarely 12) stout bristles, and twice the length of the lanceolate-beaked tubercle. — Marly bogs and wet limestone rooks, e. Que. to w. Ont., s. very locally to N. J., Pa., 0., Mich., and Mo. July- Var. LEvisiTA E. J. Hill. Bristles perfectly smooth.—Local, Me., Ont., Mich., and Ind. 13. R. Knieskfirnii Carey. Culm 1-6 dm. high, slender; leaves narrowly linear, short; spikelets numerous, crowded in 4-6 distant clusters, oblong-ovoid, 2-3 mm. long; achene obovoid, narrowed at base, equaling the bristles, twice the length of the triangular flattened tubercle. — Pine-barrens of N. J. (on bog iron ore exclusively) to Va. ; rare. July-Sept. Fig. 325. 14. R. glomerslta (L.) Vahl. Culms m. higli ; leaves linear, flat; spikelets numerous in distant clusters or heads ( cm. broad) often in pairs from the same sheath, ovoid-oblong; achene obovoid, margined, narrowed at base, as long as the lance- awl-shaped flattened tubercle, which equals the always down- wardly barbed bristles. — Low grounds, N. B. to Ont., and southw. July-Sept. Fig. 326. Var. nisctiTiENS Clarke. Bristles barbed o
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