. 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. than the perigynia. —In sandy soils, from s. Me. to e. N. Y., and D. C.; "south to ; May-July. Fig. 521. Var. Kennedyi Fernald. Staminate spike about 1 cm. long, hidden by the pistillate.—Wilmington, Mass. (^Kennedy). 155. C. striata Michx., var. brSvis Bailey. Stiff, 3-8 dm. high, extensively creeping ; culm sharply angled, smooth or slightly rough above, mostly exceeding the leaves.; leaves narrow and stiff, becoming involute; spi
. 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. than the perigynia. —In sandy soils, from s. Me. to e. N. Y., and D. C.; "south to ; May-July. Fig. 521. Var. Kennedyi Fernald. Staminate spike about 1 cm. long, hidden by the pistillate.—Wilmington, Mass. (^Kennedy). 155. C. striata Michx., var. brSvis Bailey. Stiff, 3-8 dm. high, extensively creeping ; culm sharply angled, smooth or slightly rough above, mostly exceeding the leaves.; leaves narrow and stiff, becoming involute; spikes 1-2, mostly closely sessile, considerably separated vphen two, short (1-5 cm. long) and rather thick, erect; perigynia broad- ovoid with impressed nerves, smooth, ascending, short- beaked and very short-toothed; scales thin, obtuse or acutish, mostly about l as long as . the perigynia. (C. WaUeriana,Yav. Bailey.) — Pine-barren swamps, s. e. Mass., southw., local. June-Aug. Tig. 522. 156. C. oligospfirma Michx. Very slender, but stiff, dm. high ; culms solitary or few from a slender stoloniferous base; leaves and bracts very narrow, becoming involute; stamjnate spike pedun- cled; pistillate spikes 1 or 2, rarely 3, sessile or the lowest very short- peduncled, globular or short-oblong ( cm. long) feio-flowered ; peri- ^^^_ ^ 34^^,. , ^..^^ gynia turgid, shining, gradually contracted into a very short and minutely toothed beak, prominently few-nerved, yellowish, nearly twice longer — Bogs and wet shores. Lab. and Nfd. to the Mackenzie, s. to Pa., and the Great Lake region. June-Aug. Fig. 523. 157. C. HfRTA L. Variable in size (2-6 dm. high), widely creep- ing ; culm rather slender but erect, obtuse and smooth or slightly rough above; leaves soft and flat, generally sparsely hairy and the sheaths very hirsute, rarely smooth ; spikes 2-3, distant, more or less shortly peduncled, erect or nearly so, cm. long, rather loose; perigynia long- ovoid, nerved,
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