. 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. 556. C. 557. C. rost., v. utric. 2-10 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick; perigynia ascending or slightly spreading, flask-shaped, 3-0 mm. long, the abrupt cylindric beak somewhat exceeding the bluntish or acute oblong or lanceolate purple-tinged scale. (G. ntriculata, var. minor Boott.) — Wetswarnp3 and shallow water, Nfd. and Lah. to Sask. and B. C. s. to Ct., N. Y., 111., Utah, and Cal.; common northw., local southw. (Eu.) Fig. 556. Var. utr


. 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. 556. C. 557. C. rost., v. utric. 2-10 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick; perigynia ascending or slightly spreading, flask-shaped, 3-0 mm. long, the abrupt cylindric beak somewhat exceeding the bluntish or acute oblong or lanceolate purple-tinged scale. (G. ntriculata, var. minor Boott.) — Wetswarnp3 and shallow water, Nfd. and Lah. to Sask. and B. C. s. to Ct., N. Y., 111., Utah, and Cal.; common northw., local southw. (Eu.) Fig. 556. Var. utriculita (Boott) Bailey. Coarser; mature spikes 1-2 cm. thick, often longer than in the species; perigynia ellipsoid-ovoid to conic-cylindric, cm. long, taper- ing gradually to the beak. (C. ntricu- lata Boott.) — Ex- tending s. to N. J., O., etc. Fi&. 557. Var. dmbigens Fernald. Vei~y slen- der, 8-5 dm. high; culms barely 1 mm. in diameter below the spikes; leaves 2-5 mm. broad ; staminate spikes 1 or 2; pis- tillate 1-3, cm. long; perigynia as 558. in the species. — Que., N. B., and n. Me. 184. C. bullata Schkuhr. Slender, 4-9 dm. high, the long stiff leaves 4-6 yim. wide; staminate spikes mostly 2 or 3, long-pedunoled; pistillate spikes mostly 2, remote, cylindric, densely flowered, cm. long, cm. thick; peri^j/m'o strongly nerved, firm, dull or slightly shining, very turgid, 5-8 mm. long, spreading-ascending, the usually serrulate or slightly roughish conio-cylindric beak much exceeding the acute or bluntish scale. (C Olneyi Boott; C bullata X utriculata Bailey.) — Swales and wet mead- ows, local, Mass. to Del. June, July. Fig. 558. Var. GreSnii (Boeckl.) Fer- nald. More slender and lower ; leaves 2-4 mm. wide; pistillate spike 1 (or if 2, remote), shorter and thicker, rather loosely flow- ered ; perigynia lustrous, 6-9 mm. long. (O. bullata Man. ed. 6.)—Commoner, s. Me. to Pa. and Ga. Fig. 559. • 185. C. Tuckerm&ni Dewey


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