. 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. follieulata. form commonest from Mass. southw. June-Sept Fig. 546. Var. Fernaldii Bailey, less inflated, cm. Nfd. to Man., s. to Mass., and on the nits. o£ N. C northw. 176. C. follicuUta L.' m. higli; leaves very hroad and flat, yellowish- green, lax ; jristillate spikes 2-5, mostly scattered, all but the -uppermost prominently pedimcled; perigynia conic- subnlate, very slightly in- flated, many-nerved, cm. long ; scales atone
. 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. follieulata. form commonest from Mass. southw. June-Sept Fig. 546. Var. Fernaldii Bailey, less inflated, cm. Nfd. to Man., s. to Mass., and on the nits. o£ N. C northw. 176. C. follicuUta L.' m. higli; leaves very hroad and flat, yellowish- green, lax ; jristillate spikes 2-5, mostly scattered, all but the -uppermost prominently pedimcled; perigynia conic- subnlate, very slightly in- flated, many-nerved, cm. long ; scales atoned and often nearly as long. — Wet woods, meadows and bogs, Nfd. to Out., s. to Md., W. Va., and Mich.; locally abundant. June-Aug. Fig. 545. C. intuniescens. nAQ 177. C. Michauxiana Boeckl. Slender but stiff and erect, dm. high, yellowish; leaves narrow and firm, shorter than the culm ; spikes 2-i, the lowest usually remote and short-peduncled, the remainder aggregated and sessile ; perigynia lance-subulate, not inflated, 8-13 mm. long, erect or spreading, twice longer than the blunt scales. ( 0. abacta Bailey.) — Bogs and lalie- borders, Nfd. to L. Mistassini, s. to n. N. E., n. N. Y., and Mich.; local. June, July. Fig. 547. 178. C. subulata Green, very slender but erect, dm. high ; leaves soft, mm. wide, shorter than the culm; bracts leafy, sheath- ing ; pistillate spikes 2-5, scattered, 2-6-floioered ; perigynia subulate, cm. long, deflexed. ( C. Collinsii Nutt.) — Bogs and white cedar swamps, K. I. to e. Pa., and southw. ; very local. June, July. Fig. 548. 179. C. saxAtilis L. Low, 2-3 dm. high; leaves 2-5 mm. wide, flat, becoming involute, nearly or quite equaling the culm; staminate spike 1 (rarely 2); pistillate 1-3, sessile or short-peduncled, subglobose or short-cylindric, cm. long, 0-8 mm. thick ; perigynia purple or , usually nerveless, ovoid, 3-4 unn. long, with a short subentire beak, slightly exceeding the
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