. 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. 499. C. gran,, Haleajia. Crawei. 501. C. exteosa. long, very strongly nerved, the nearly entire short bea7c usually bent; scale thin and pointed, about ,i the length of the perigynia.— Woods and meadows, Vt. to Out., and southw. June, July. Fk;, 498. |A Var. Haleana (Olney) Porter. Lower and more slender; pis- if tillate spikes more slender, 3-5 mm. thick; perigynia oblong. (C. Shriveri Britton.)—Me. to Sask.^ s. to Va., O., Mich., and Wise. Fic
. 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. 499. C. gran,, Haleajia. Crawei. 501. C. exteosa. long, very strongly nerved, the nearly entire short bea7c usually bent; scale thin and pointed, about ,i the length of the perigynia.— Woods and meadows, Vt. to Out., and southw. June, July. Fk;, 498. |A Var. Haleana (Olney) Porter. Lower and more slender; pis- if tillate spikes more slender, 3-5 mm. thick; perigynia oblong. (C. Shriveri Britton.)—Me. to Sask.^ s. to Va., O., Mich., and Wise. Fic. 499. 136. C. Crawei Dewey. Low, strict, stoloniferous, dm. high ; leaves 2-4 nun. wide; bracts scdrcely exceeding the culm; spikes 2-5, scattered, the lowest radi- cal or nearly so, shortpedunoled or the upper sessile, erect, compact, cm. long; staminate spike generally peduncled ; perigynia ovoid, usually resinous-dotted, nearly nerveless or few-nerved, very short-pointed, longer than the obtuse or short-pointed scale. — Moist places, in calcareous districts. Cape Breton I. to Man., locally s. to n. Me., u. Pa., the Great Lake region, and Kan. June, July. Fig. 500. 137. C. EXTENSA Good. Slender but strict, 3-8 dm. high ; leaves involute ; spikes 2-4, the lowest remote and short-peduncled, the remainder approximate and sessile, short ( cm. long) and compact; perigynia ovoid, narrowed at the base, very strongly nerved, ascending, the short stout beak sharply'toothed, longer than the blunt brown-edged scale. — Sandy shores, Long Island and Coney Island, N. Y.; Norfolk, Va. June-Aug. (Nat. from En.) Fig. 501, 138. C. flava L. Tufted, 2-8 dm. high, yellowish throughout; leaves flat, 2-5 mm. wide, mostly shorter than the culms, bracts prominent, divergent; pistillate spikes 2-6, aggregated, or the lowest distinct, subglobose or short-cylindric, cm. long ; perigynia ovoid, yellow- brown, produced into a long deflexed beak, strongly nerved, twice o
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