. 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. CVPERACEAE (SEDGE EAMILYJ 225. mm- long), the upper subapproximate or scattered, the lowest very remote, usually subtended by an elongate slender bract; beak about \ as long as the body of the perigynium, somewhat exceeding the ovate acumi- nate or short-cuspidate pale scale. — llich open woods and banks, Que. to B. C, s. to Pa., Mich., Wise, N. Mex., etc. May-Aug. Fig. 889. 36. C. tenuiflbra Wahlenb. Lax, the culms 2-6 dm. long, mostly exceedin
. 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. CVPERACEAE (SEDGE EAMILYJ 225. mm- long), the upper subapproximate or scattered, the lowest very remote, usually subtended by an elongate slender bract; beak about \ as long as the body of the perigynium, somewhat exceeding the ovate acumi- nate or short-cuspidate pale scale. — llich open woods and banks, Que. to B. C, s. to Pa., Mich., Wise, N. Mex., etc. May-Aug. Fig. 889. 36. C. tenuiflbra Wahlenb. Lax, the culms 2-6 dm. long, mostly exceeding the very narrow ( mm. broad) pale green leaves; spikes ,3-10-flowered ; peri- gynia mm. broad, with the bluntish tips smooth or rarely with 390. c. tcnuiflom. 1 or 2 teeth, about equaled by the ovate or ,ovate-oblong white scale.—Bogs and wet mossy woods, local, Hudson Bay to Man., s. to N. B., Me., Mass., N. Y., Mich., Wise, and Minn. June, Julj'. (Eu.)—Apparently hybridizes with 0. tri- sperma in n. Me. Fig. 390. 37. C. trispfirma Dewey. Culms almost filiform, 2-7 dm. long, usually much overtopping the soft narrow (1-2 mm. wide) leaves; the 2 or 3 spikes 2-6-Jlowered; the finely many-nerved beaked peri- gynia mm. long, mm. 391. 0. trisperma. broad, slightly exceeding the ovate- oblong pale obtuse to mucronate- acuminate scales. — Mossj- woods and bogs, Nfd. to Sask., s. to Md., the Great Lakes, and Neb. June-Aug. Fig. 391. Var. Billingsii Knight. Leaves nearly setaceous, (>.Z-( mm. wide; the 1 or 2 spikes 1- or 2-fiowered; perigynium mm. long. —Boggy spots, local, N. S. and Me. to N. J. 38. C. norv6gica Willd. Glaucous and freely stoloniferous; culms smooth and soft, dm. high, mostly overtopping the soft flat rather narrow ( mm. broad) leaves ; inflorescence cm. long, of 2-6 ovoid or thiek-cylindric spikes, the lower 5-12 mm. long; perigynia faintly nerved, mm. ^ long, mm. broad, conic-ros
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