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The affinity of these two species is unquestionably with C. Nebras- 
kensis Dew., next to which they should be placed in the system. 
6. Carex campylocarpa Holm, I. c., p. 304, fig. 13—15. 
Rhizome with short stolons and purplish, persisting leaf-sheaths; 
leaves shorter than the culm, narrow, but flat, scabrous along the margins 
and on the lower face; culm about 40 cm in height, erect, stiff, triangular, 
scabrous, phyllopodic; spikes 3 to 4, mostly 3, the terminal staminate, 
the lateral pistillate; remote, sessile or nearly so, erect, dense-flowered, 
short cylindric to ovoid, from !/, to 1 cm in length, subtended by sheath- 
less, foliaceous bracts, shorter than the inflorescence; scale of staminate 
spike lanceolate, obtuse, purplish brown with pale midvein; scale of 
pistillate spike ovate, obtuse, blackish with the midvein faintly visible 
and the margins narrow, hyaline, much shorter than the perigynium: 
perigynium shortly stipitate, spreading, elliptical-oblong, granular and 
prominently denticulate along the upper margins, turgid, nerveless, pale 
green with purplish spots and streaks, the beak quite prominent, excurved, 
the orifice entire; stigmata 2, style not exserted. 
Oregon: Crater Lake National Park, Cathedral spring, collected by 
Mr. F. V. Coville, September, 1902 (no. 1457). 
The systematic position of this species seems naturally to be among 
the Microrhynchae, but as a deviating type on account of the excurved 
beak of the perigynium, and if it were not for the distinct marginal 
denticulation of the perigynium and its slender shape the species would 
resemble ©. scopulorum to some extent. A perigynium of this kind is 
somewhat unusual within the representatives of the grex, but is, as we 
remember, very characteristic of the Spirostachyae; in these, however, the 
beak is generally bifid and more distinctly differentiated from the body. 
The species may be placed next to C. scopulorum. 
7. Carex cryptochlaena Holm, |. c., p. 305, fig. 16. 
Rhizome caespitose with purplish, persisting leaf-sheaths; leaves 
about half as long as the culm, broad (about 1 cm) and flat, glabrous 
except along the margins; culm from 70 to 90 cm in height, erect and 
stiff, triangular, scabrous along the edges, phyllopodic; spikes from 4 
to 7, the terminal and frequently the uppermost lateral staminate, the 
others pistillate or androgynous, contiguous or the lower ones remote, 
sessile or short-peduncled, erect or spreading, seldom nodding, dense- 
flowered, subtended by sheathless, foliaceous, broad bracts of which the 
lower ones exceed the inflorescence; scale of staminate spike elliptical- 
oblong, acute, light reddish-brown with pale midvein; scale of pistillate 
spike lanceolate, sharply pointed, deep purplish with broad, greenish 
mi dvein, exceeding the perigynium; perigynium almost sessile, erect 
broadly elliptic to roundish, nerveless, pale green, granular, sparingly 
denticulate near the minute, entire beak; stigmata 2. 
Alaska: Kussiloff, on sands with Elymus, collected by Dr. Walter, 
H. Evans, July, 1898 (no. 618), and Seldovia near mouth of Cook inlet 
by Prof. C. V. Piper, August, 1904 (no. 4818 and 4819). 
