4 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [Vorumg 17 
2. Typha latifolia I. Sp. Pl. 971. 1753. 
Typha elatior Raf. Atl. Jour. 1: 148. 1832. 
Typha crassa Raf, Atl. Jour. 1: 148. 1832. 
Typha latifolia elongaia Dudley, Bull. Cornell Univ. 2: Fl. 102. 1886. 
Typha elongaia Kronf. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 39: 176, assynonym. 1889. 
Stems stout, 1-2.7 m. tall; leaves linear, 6-25 mm. broad; racemes dark-brown or 
blackish, the staminate and pistillate portions usually contiguous, each 8-20 cm. or more 
in length; pistillate portion without bractlets, 2-3.5 cm. in diameter ; stigmas rhomiboidal 
or spatulate; pollen-grains in 4’s; the denuded rachis of the mature pistillate raceme stout, 
8-11 mm. thick, conspicuous by the long, bristle-like, persistent pedicels, which are some- 
times 3 mm. in length. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION: In marshes throughout the United States and Canada as far north as Fort 
Franklin ; also in Europe and Asia. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Benth. Ill, Handb. Brit. Fl. 2: 7. 977; Pratt, Fl. Pl. Great Brit. 3: £1. 234, 7, 
1; Engl. Bot. £1. 1455, Britt. & Brown, 1. Fl. 7. 136; Coste, Fl. Fr. f. 3687; Bull. Torrey Club 15: 
6. f. 1-3; Cycl. Am. Hort. £. 2607; Bild. Nord. Fl. £/. 493; Curtis, Fl. Lond. 3: £1.61 (as ZT. major); 
Schkuhr, Handb. 3: fl. 281. 
