. 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. 186 CYPEKACBAB (SEDGE FAMILY^) 1. P. scirpoides Torr. Annual ( dm. high), leafy; leaves flat; spikelets 20-30-flowered ; scales oblong-ovate, acute, chestnut^colored ; achene finely roughened, somewhat margined, beaked with a long sword-shaped almost wholly persistent style. â Wet sandy shores and swamps, Mass. and K. I.; u. Ind. V Y Fig. 266. \ 1 2. P. nitens (Vahl) Wood. Similar; often be- ^ 1 coming 5-7 dm. high; faces of the a
. 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. 186 CYPEKACBAB (SEDGE FAMILY^) 1. P. scirpoides Torr. Annual ( dm. high), leafy; leaves flat; spikelets 20-30-flowered ; scales oblong-ovate, acute, chestnut^colored ; achene finely roughened, somewhat margined, beaked with a long sword-shaped almost wholly persistent style. â Wet sandy shores and swamps, Mass. and K. I.; u. Ind. V Y Fig. 266. \ 1 2. P. nitens (Vahl) Wood. Similar; often be- ^ 1 coming 5-7 dm. high; faces of the achene with A 26ii. P. scirpoides strong transverse ribs; tubercle depressed, broader than high. â Wet sandy shores and bogs, L. I. and 267. P. nitena. Del., southw.; n. Ind. Fig. 267. 7. STENOPHYLLUS Raf. Spikelets as in Fimbristylis, the comparatively large scales in few ranks. Stamens 2 or 3. Style 2-3-cleft, filiform, glabrous, its base swollen and forming a persistent colored tubercle. Otherwise as in Fimbristylis; standing in the same relation to that genus as Eleocharis to Scirpus. â Leaves primarily basal, narrowly linear or filiform, the sheaths hairy or ciliate. (Name from (TTevds, narrow, and ipiiWov, leaf) 1. S. capillilris (L.) Britton. Low annual, densely tufted ( dm. high) ; culms and leaves nearly capillary, the latter short, minutely ciliate; umbels compound or panicled, loose or 268. S. caplllaris. compact (in dwarf plant often much reduced) ; spikelets ovoid- oblong, brown to blackish ; stamens 2 ; achene acutely triangular, minutely wrinkled, very blunt. ( Fimbristylis Gray.)â Sandy fields, Me. to Fla., w. to the Pacific. July-Oct. (Trop. Am.) Fig. 268. 8. FIMBRiSTYLIS Vahl. Spikelets several-many-flowered, terete ; scales all floriferous, regularly imbri- cated in several ranks. Stamens 1-3. Style 2-3-cleft, often with a dilated or tumid base, which is deciduous from the apex of the naked lenticular or trian- gular achene. Otherwise as in
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