. 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. 47T. 0. Careyana. 476. C. plantaginea x %. FruitiDg culm, perigyn- ium, and leaf-tip. Caespitose; culms slender and lax, dm. long; leaves usually very glaucous, mostly shorter than the culms, broad (6-12 mm.); staminate spike usually peduncled, 1-2 cm. long; pistillate 3-5, very remote, on capillary flexuous peduncles, cm. long, mm. thick; the spreading-ascending sharply trigonous-ovoid peri- gynia mm. long, equalin
. 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. 47T. 0. Careyana. 476. C. plantaginea x %. FruitiDg culm, perigyn- ium, and leaf-tip. Caespitose; culms slender and lax, dm. long; leaves usually very glaucous, mostly shorter than the culms, broad (6-12 mm.); staminate spike usually peduncled, 1-2 cm. long; pistillate 3-5, very remote, on capillary flexuous peduncles, cm. long, mm. thick; the spreading-ascending sharply trigonous-ovoid peri- gynia mm. long, equaling or exceeding the scales. — Glades and rich woods, s. Me. to Va., and Mo. May-July. Fig. 479, In the interior passing to var. coptiLATA (Bailey) Fer- nald. Glaucous or some- times deep green ; spikes 1-2 cm. long; perigynia mm. long. (C. digitalis, var., Bailey.) — Vt. to Del., O., Mich., and Ont. 125. C. digitalis Willd. Very slender, bright green, tufted, dm. high; leaves narrow; staminate spike short-stalked; pistillate spikes 2-4, on filiform stalks, ascending or slightly spreading, linear, 1-3 cm. long, alternately flowered; perigynia mm. long, longer than the acute whitish scales. — Dryish woods and glades. Me. to Ont., Mich., and southw. May-July. Fig. 480. 126. C. ptychocirpa Steud. Low, glaucous; high; leaves flat and rather broad (4-8 mm.), much exceeding the culms; bracts leafy and mitch prolonged; staminate spike very small and sessile, mostly overtopped by the upper pistillate spike; pistillate "spikes 2-3, sessile or short-stalked or rarely the lowest long-peduncled, erect, cm. long; perigynia tawny, narrowly gkat's manual —16. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln, 1864-1935; Fern
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