. 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. 205. C. Gatesii. 206. C. flavicomus. cated, pale brown ; stamens 2 ; achene linear-oblong orclamte ( mm. broad), short-pointed, grayish and minutely pitted. (C polystachijus, var. lepto- stachyus Boeckl.) — Shores, mostly near the-coast, N. J. to Fla. and Tex. Fig. 204. 6. C. GatJsii Torr. Similar; very slender ; leaves and very long ascending itivolucral bracts mm. broad; spikelets cm. long; the oblong scales green- ish; ac
. 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. 205. C. Gatesii. 206. C. flavicomus. cated, pale brown ; stamens 2 ; achene linear-oblong orclamte ( mm. broad), short-pointed, grayish and minutely pitted. (C polystachijus, var. lepto- stachyus Boeckl.) — Shores, mostly near the-coast, N. J. to Fla. and Tex. Fig. 204. 6. C. GatJsii Torr. Similar; very slender ; leaves and very long ascending itivolucral bracts mm. broad; spikelets cm. long; the oblong scales green- ish; achenes slightly smaller.— Low grounds, Va. to Fla., Ark., and Tex. Fig. 205. 7. C. flavicomus Michx. Culm stout, 3-9 dm. high; leaves of the involucre 3-5, very long; spikelets linear, cm. long, spiked and crowded on the whole lengtli of the branches of the several-r<.-ved umbel, spreading'; scales oval, very obtiise, yellowish and br-yijmish, with a broad scarious whitish margin ; stamens 3 j aehene obovate, mucronate, blackish.—Low grounds, Va. to Fla. Fig. 206. 8. C. aristatus Eottb. Dwarf (2-20 cm. high); invo- lucre 2-3-leaved; spikelets brawn, oblong becoming linear, 7-20-flowered, 3-10 mm. long, in 1-5 ovoid or subglobose heads (sessile and clustered, or short-peduncled) ; scales nerved, tapering to a long recurved point; stamen 1; achene oblong-obovate, obtuse. (C. inflexus Muhl.) — Sandy wet shores, local, N. B. to B. C, and soutliw. — Dry plant with odor of Slippery Elm. Fig. 207. 9. C. comprfissus L. high, with a simple sessile or a few umbel- late" clusters of oblong to linear spikelets (15-30-flowered and cm. long), C. oompressui. , ^\i^ crowded strongly Iceeled and very acute ^07. c aristatus greenish many-nerved scales; stamens 3 ; achene oboToid, sharply trigonous. — Sterile fields along the coast, Pa. to Fla. and Tex. Fig. 208. 10. C. Schweinltzii Torr. Perennial, propagating by hard clustered eorms; culm rough o
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