. 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. CYPBRACBAE (SEDGE FAMILY) 227. (6-9 mm.) and flat, their sheaths conspicuously clothing the base of the culm; spikes 6-12, the 2 or 3 upper ones con- tiguous, the remainder entirely separate, very green, short- oylindric, the lowest often compound, all truncate at top; perigyniuin ovate, 3-4 mm. long, rough on the short beak, often obscurely nerved on the outer face, considerably longer than the whitish sharp-pointed scale. — Rich woods, N. H. t
. 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. CYPBRACBAE (SEDGE FAMILY) 227. (6-9 mm.) and flat, their sheaths conspicuously clothing the base of the culm; spikes 6-12, the 2 or 3 upper ones con- tiguous, the remainder entirely separate, very green, short- oylindric, the lowest often compound, all truncate at top; perigyniuin ovate, 3-4 mm. long, rough on the short beak, often obscurely nerved on the outer face, considerably longer than the whitish sharp-pointed scale. — Rich woods, N. H. to Ont., Mo., and Va. June, July. Fig. 401. 48. C. cephaloldea Dewey. Lax, very green, 3-9 dm. high; leaves broad (5-8 mm.) and thin, shorter than the long soft culm ; head cm. long, rather dense ;perigynimn narrowly ovate, mm. long, pale green, nerve- less, with long rough beak, spreading.— Rich woods and thickets, local, N. B. to Pa., "Wise, and Ont. May-July. Fig. 402. 49. C. alopecoidea Tuokerm. Stout but rather soft, 4-9 dm. high ; culm rather sharp, 402. C. cephaloidea. ^^}^^ an<i soft in texture; leaves 4-8 mm. 401. wide, about the length of the cubi), very green ; h^ad 2-6 cm. long, straw-color or tawny, occasionally a little compound, the spikes many and compactly or somewhat loosely disposed or the lowest often separate and all mostly short-cylindric ; perigynium 3-4 mm. long, mm. broad, tapering into a rough beak, very prominently stipitate, with a few brown nerves on the outer face., ascending, about equaling or a little exceeding the scale ; achene obovate, 1 mm. broad, style not thickened at base. — Open swales and low thickets. Me. to Ont. and 111.; local. June, July. Fig. 403. 50. C. grdvida Bailey. Low, the culm thin and sharply angled, 2-5 dm. high; leaves ^^g ^ alonecoidea rather firm, shorter than the culm ; head 2-4 cm. long, greenish to pale brown, short-cylindric, the lowest spikes rarely distinct; spikes
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