Ce arcta ‘Boott. _____-» Caespitose with very slender erect 
“sulms 30-50 em. tall which are usually shorter than the leaves; leaf = 
blades soft and grasslike, little roughened, pale green, 2-4 mn. wide, 
lmg-attenuate; spikes 5-15, 5-8 mm. long, more or less ovoid in outline, 
sessile, congested into a terminal cluster 1.5-3 ome long which is sub- 
tended by one or two membranous attenuate bracts mostly shorter than the 
inflorescence; scales ovate, acuminate, hyaline with green midribs, 
2-2.5 mm. long, somewhat tinged with brow; perigynia 2.5-5 mm. long, 
thrusting in all directions at maturity hence appearing bur-like, 
flattened on one surface, ovate, acuminate to a scabrous beak about 1 mm. 
long, bearing several veins on the rounded back and several incomplete 
ones at the base on the flattened surface, the beak 2-toothed. 
In moist meadowse 
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@ Ce Bebbii Olney. —______» Densely caespitose, the culms erect, 
'" “glender, 20-60 cm. tall, sharply angled and roughened above; leaf } 
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blades 2-4.5 mm. wide; spikes green, tinged with brow, usually 5-8, 
ovoid or suhglobose, canpact, more or less distinct but crowded, 5-7 
mm. long, blunt or rounded, aggregated into usually oblonqclusters 8-20 
mne long, the bracts acicular, inconspicuous, but sanetimes exceeding 
the inflorescence; scales 2.5-3 mm. long, ovate, very acute or acuminate, 
the midribs green, the margins thin and tinged with brown; perigynia 
3-3.5 mn. long, green, tinged with brow, ovate, about twice as long as 
broad, narrowed toward the base, gradually acuminate, very flat, faintly 
veinsd on one face, the margins thin and sharp, toothed to the apex, the 
beak often not clearly markede 
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Upper Priest R.pZpling-Z39%; Sand Poilt, Jenes-062> 
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