. 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. 228 CYPEBACEAE (SEDGE FAMILY^. decomposita. 409. C. diandrs. maturity ; scales short-awned. — Vt. to Ont. and Ky.; June-Aug, Fjg. 406. Var. amblgua (Barratt) Fernald. J'erigynia broad-ovate to orbicular, abruptly short-beaked, often golden-brown. (C. vul- pinoidea, var. ambigua Barratt; C. xanthocarpa Bicknell.) — Dry soil, s. Me. to la., and southw. Fig. 407. 53. C. decomp6sita Muhl. Stout, exceed- ingly deep green, m. high, in stools ; c
. 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. 228 CYPEBACEAE (SEDGE FAMILY^. decomposita. 409. C. diandrs. maturity ; scales short-awned. — Vt. to Ont. and Ky.; June-Aug, Fjg. 406. Var. amblgua (Barratt) Fernald. J'erigynia broad-ovate to orbicular, abruptly short-beaked, often golden-brown. (C. vul- pinoidea, var. ambigua Barratt; C. xanthocarpa Bicknell.) — Dry soil, s. Me. to la., and southw. Fig. 407. 53. C. decomp6sita Muhl. Stout, exceed- ingly deep green, m. high, in stools ; culm very obtusely angled, almost terete below ; leaves firm, channeled below, 5-8 mm. wide, longer than the culm; panicle dm. long, the lower branches ascending and cm. long ; perigynium very small, few-nerved, hard and at maturity shining, the abrupt short beak entire or very nearly so ; scale acute, about the length of the peri- gynium.— Swamps, N. Y. to Mich., and southw.; local. July,,Aug. Fig. 408. 54. C. diindra Schrank. Slender but mostly erect, 3-8 dm. high, in loose stools ; culm rather obtuse, rough at the top, mostly longer than the narrow (1-3 mm. broad) plicate leaves; head cm. long, cm. thick ; perigynium very small, truncate below, bearing a few inconspicuous short nerves on the outer side, stipitate, firm and at maturity blackish and shining, the short beak lighter colored ; scale the length of the perigynium. (C teretiascula Good.).^ Bogs and wet meadows, e. Que. to the Yukon, s. to Ct., Pa., Mich., Neb., etc. May^uly. (Eu.) Fig. 409. Var. ramftsa (Boott) Fernald. Tall ( m.) ; head 3-8 cm. long, the upper portion often nodding, the usually pale spikes scattered and the lowest often slightly compound; perigynia brown. ( C. teretiuscula, var. prairea Britten.) —Bogs, e. Que. to B. C, s. to Ct., Pa., O., 111., Minn., and Utah. Fig. 410. 55. C. conjuncta Boott. Strict but rather weak, m. high; culm soft and sharply tri
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