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F C. tribuloides Wahl. ————__,Caespitose, the culms 40-80 om. 
tall, about 2 mm. thick, very sharply angled, roughened above; leaf-blades 
3-4 mm. broad, somewhat roughened; spikes commonly abt 12, ovoid, 
compact, 5-10 mm. long, each distinct but aggregated into a subcylindrical 
or ovoid cluster 5-5.5 om. long, the bracts linear, expanded and hyaline 
at the base, rarely as long as the inflorescenceyoften not exceeding 
the lower spike; scales ovate, acute, 5-4 mm. long, hyaline except for 
the green midrib; perigynia 4-45 mm. long, dull straw-color, narrowly 
ovate, narrowed at the base, tapering gradually upward, thin and flat, 
the margins very sharp and thin, nearly a third as wide as the perigyniun 
at the middle, finely toothed to the apex, the beak tims not omtthhy clearly 
defined, the terminal teeth sharp, as long as the width of the beak/, 
St. Marios p-Epling-and-Offerd-GOLd; Blue Creek, hekbeng 1537», 
Ce phaeccephale Piper. —> Caespivose, the rootstocks 
densely matted, the culms stiffish, erect, exceeding the leaves, mostly 
smooth or roughened beneath the head, 10-30 om. tall; leaf-blades 1.5-2 
mm. wide, trough-shaped, roughened on the margins; spikes mostly 3-5, 
eongested into more er less ovoid brown heads 10-20 mm. long, the 
bracts small and inconspicuous; scales ovate, acute, 3-35.5 mm. long, about 
equal to the perigynia, and hiding them, brown, with very thin hyaline 
margins, the midrib paler} yerigyria narrowly ovete, 3.5-4 mm. long, 
green, then brown, thir, flet on cne face and usually veinless, rounded 
m the other and faintly veined, tapering into a beak usually less than 
lm. long, ¢-toothed, hyaline at the orifice, the margins thin and sharp, 
finely toothed. 
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Snowy Top Mt», 6000 fits pudmdersoy; Moscow Mt. salail> 
