. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 334 CYPERACEAE. Vol. 21. Scirpus Fernaldi Bickwell. Fernald's Bulrush. Fig. 821. S. Fernaldi Bicknell, Torreya 1: 96. 1901. Perennial; culms rather pale green, slender, sharply 3-angled, tall or less. Leaves i"-3" wide, the upper equalling or surpassing the inflorescence, those of the involucre 3 or 4, the longest one 5' long or less; spikelet
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 334 CYPERACEAE. Vol. 21. Scirpus Fernaldi Bickwell. Fernald's Bulrush. Fig. 821. S. Fernaldi Bicknell, Torreya 1: 96. 1901. Perennial; culms rather pale green, slender, sharply 3-angled, tall or less. Leaves i"-3" wide, the upper equalling or surpassing the inflorescence, those of the involucre 3 or 4, the longest one 5' long or less; spikelets ovoid, s"-8" long, sessile in a termi- nal cluster and solitary at the ends of the slender umbel-rays; scales finely puberulent, acuminate, en- tire or lacerate, the recurved awn "ii"-6" long; bris- tles as long as the achene or shorter; style 3-cleft; achene obovoid-cuneate, about ii" long and thick, trigonous, with rounded angles, yellow-brown and shining. Shore of Somes Sound, Mt. Desert, Maine. July-Aug. 22. Scirpus novae-angliae Britton. New England Bulrush. Fig. 822. 5". novae-angliae Britton, in Britton and Brown, 111. Fl. Ed. 1, 3: 509. 1898. Perennial by rootstocks; culm stout, erect, 4°-7° tall, sharply 3-angled, the sides flat or nearly so. Leaves long, 4"-6" wide, somewhat roughish on the margins when dry, the lowest reduced to pointed sheaths, those of the involucre 2-5, the longer of them much exceeding the inflorescence; spikelets narrowly cylindric, acute, i'-2' long, less than i' thick, solitary or 2-5 together at the ends of the rays of the umbel, the rays 1/-4' long; scales awned; bristles 2-4, shorter than the gray- ish-white dull obovate achene, which is distinctly 3-angled; stamens 3; style 3-cleft. In fresh water and brackish marshes, Massachu- setts to New York. 23. Scirpus sylvaticus L. Wood Bulrush or Clubrush. Fig. 823. Scirpus sylvaticus L. Sp. PI. 51. 1753. Perennial by long rootstocks; culm triangula
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