Ce. stipata Muhl. -—————->Caeepitose, with 
: a , short stout root 
the culms commonly 50-70 cm. tall, 2-3 mm. in diameter, pliant, eae g ’ 
each spike sanposed of one or 
angled, strongly roughened in the upper parts, usual] 
leaves; leaf=blades cammonly 6-8 ma. wide, flat, a, pons F vensheniod 
the sheaths with conspicuous cross veins and broad hyaline margins , 
spikes mmerous, subglobose or ovoid, crowded into an irregular raped 
cluster 5-6 ome long, greenish, becoming straw-color, the bracts 
acicular, weak and little developed; scales 3 mme long, ovate, acute, the 
midvein green and firm, for the rest thin and hyaline or browni sh-tinged 
perigynia green or tinged with brow, rather glossy, 4-5 ma. long dither 
lanceolate, rounded at the base and gathered to a short stalk, acuinate 
to a stout beak about as long as the body, one face 
7-9 veins, the other rounded, bearing 9o15 clearly Pris veing. " 
age merce 
Common in swampy places and moist meadows. Orogrande Cr., 3000 fte; 
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Clarkia; N. Fork Clearwater R. 
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CG. disperma Dewey. > In large olumps, the rootstocks 
elongated, stolonifermis, the culms very slender, pliant and weak, 
scarcely more than .5 mm. in diameter, roughened above, 50-50 om. tall, 
longer than tho leaves; leaf-blades soft and grasslike, 1-2 mm. wide; 
spikes few, borne at she apex, the uvpermost closer, the lower more 
distant, tho inflorescence usally 2-3 ome long, the bracts mostly wanting; 
two pistillate with usually one or two 
ssaninate flowers above, the scales ovate, aciminate, 2-265 mn. lone, 
hyaline with green midrits; ~risynia oveid, plumv, dull pale green, 
yy abruptly beaked, the beak mimte, hyaline at the 
finely veined, 
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