C1.) y_C. illota Bailey. ——» Caespitose, with short slender rootstocks, 
) the culms 10-40 om. tall, slender, erect, roughened near the apex; 
leaf-blades 1-2 mn. wide, flat; spikes 5-5, ovoid, both staminate and 
pistillate or bearing only the latter, crowded into a dense dark browm 
terminal ovoid cluster 6-12 mm. long, the bracts scalelike; soales 22.5 
mm. long, ovate, acute, the midvein green, the margins dark chestmt 
brown; perigynia 3-3.5 mm. long, shining, chestmit brown especially 
towards the apex, ovate-lanceolate, rounded at the base and gathered to 
a short stalk, usually flat on one surface, rounded on the other, both 
surfaces distinctly veined, the beak nearly ee or véry faintly 
toothed on the wavclaa is, 1/3-1/2 the length of the body» 
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C. Hoodii Boott. -——»Densely caespitose, the culms erect, stiffish, 
‘roughened in the upper parts, rather bluntly angled, twice as long as 
the leaves, 30-50 om. tall; leaf-blades mostly 1-2 mm. broad, flat but 
more or less trough=shaped towards the base, rough; spikes several, 
closely congested into an ovoid terminal head 10-18 mm. long, the bracts 
inconspicuous, shorter than the head; scales 3.5-4 mm. long, ovate, 
acute, the midrib green or paler brown, she nargins thin, chestmt 
brown, the margins hyaline; psrigynia 5.5-4 mm. long, narrowly ovate, 
narrowed toward the base, rather abruptly acuminate, flat on one face, 
rounded on the other, the veins faint or none, the center brown, the 
margins green, thing sharp, finely tocthed, the beak about half as long 
as the body, sharply 2-toothed at the apoxy, 
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