This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...--Figs. 52, 53.--Culms rather slender, 2 to 6 dm. high, smooth except at tip: leaves mostly shorter, ascending but not stiff, 1.75 to 4.5 mm. wide: spikes 1 to 2 cm. long, of 3 to 12 globose or ovoid-oblong ascending spikelets 5 to 8 mm. long: perigynia narrowly ovate, mostly dull brown and loosely ascending, faintly ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...--Figs. 52, 53.--Culms rather slender, 2 to 6 dm. high, smooth except at tip: leaves mostly shorter, ascending but not stiff, 1.75 to 4.5 mm. wide: spikes 1 to 2 cm. long, of 3 to 12 globose or ovoid-oblong ascending spikelets 5 to 8 mm. long: perigynia narrowly ovate, mostly dull brown and loosely ascending, faintly few-nerved or nerveless, 1.5 to 2 mm. broad: scale oblong, bluntly acuminate.--Exsicc. fasc. ii, no. 12, as nomen nudum. C. tribuloides, var. Bebbii, Bailey, Mem. Torr. CI. i, 55 & in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 620; Britton, 1. c. 356; Howe, 1. c. 42; Cratty, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Univ. Ia., iv. 359, t. 8.--Low ground, Newfoundland to western MassachuSetts, central New Yokk, Illinois, the Rocky Mts., British Columbia, and northward. June-Aug. ++ ++ Tips of the perigynia nearly or quite equalled by the scales: perigynia more than 3.5 mm. long (sometimes shorter in the slender-spiked silvery green C. foenea). = Perigynia with strong nerves the entire length of the inner face (very rarely nerveless). o Spike loose and elongated, green or silvery-brown. 18. C. Foenea, Willd.--Figs. 54, 55.--Culms slender and lax, smooth except at tip, 3 to 9 dm. high: leaves soft and loose, pale green or glaucous, mostly shorter, 2 to 4 mm. broad: spike linear-cylindric or moniliform, erect or flexuous, of 4 to 9 globose or ovoid clavate-narrowed appressed-ascending spikelets 6 to 10 mm. long: perigynia ovate, 3 to 4 mm. long, 1.8 to 2.2 mm. broad, appressed-ascending, finally a little spreading.--Enum. 957; Bailey, Mem. Torr. CI. i. 25, & in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 621; Macoun, 1. c. 377; Britton 1. c. 357, fig. 867; Howe, 1. c. 43. C. argyrantha, Tuck, in Herb, distr. (1859). C. adusta, Boott, 1. c. 119, in part, t. 382, fig. 2, not Boott in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 215. ...
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