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2 Ge saximontana Mack. ——>Caespitose, the culms 10-35 am. tall, 
unequal, triangular, ascending, dilated beneath the spikes, the angles 
bearing a narrow hyaline wing in the upper parts; leaves mostly basal, 
longer than the culms or at least as long, pale green and glaucous, the 
blades 5-5 mm. broad, rough and sharp; spikes appearing as though | Sie 
minal and solitary, most ly 5-5 flowered, the staminate flowers above 
the pistillate, the lowermost pistilla 
by @ leaflike sheath ing scale S-@ om. long, the upper by similar bu at 
successively shorter cantaat perigynia 4 mm. long, t~-ribbed, 
ump and oval, narrowed equally at both ends to a short stalk and a shart 
beak, the latter cylindrical, smooth, hyaline at the apex and toothed. 
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Qi C. stenochlaena (Holm) Mack. ——_———» Rootstocks densely 
“matted, stout, the culms slender, stiffish, erect, much longer than the 
leaves, 40-70 cm. tall, roughened above, the lowermost leaves scale 
like and reddish; leaf-blades flat, 2-3 mm. wide, the sheaths hirtellous 
on the side opposite the blade; staminate and pistillate spikes both 
solitary, borne on separate culms, the former about 2 om. long, 3-5 mm. 
thiok, the latter 2-3.5 om. long, 4-5 mm. thiok, narrowly cylindrical, 
borne on a stalk often nearly as long as the spike, subtended by a stif- 
fish bract which is shorter than the inflorescence and hirtellous on 
the short hyaline sheath; scales 2-2-5 mme long, oval, rounded at the 
apex with thin margins, reddish brown; perigynia flat, narrowly oval, 
3.5-4 mme long, hirtellous, the beak .5 mme long, brown, subentire. 
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Upper priest Re, 5000 ft.; divide betweemthe St. Joe and Clearwater 
RSe, 4800 ft. 
