CIty C. festivella Mack. -—H—-—>Caespitose, with slender erect 
culms 20-60 om. tall, Jonger than the leaves,usually very rough just 
(2.0) 
beneath the head, otherwise smooth; leaf-blades 15-3 mm. wide, sanewhat 
roughened; spikes several, not readily distinguishable but aggregated 
into a dense ovoéd or pyramidal head 10-15 mm. long, often nearly as wide, 
the bracts smal] and inconspicuous; scales thin, ovate, mestly obtuse, 
2.5-3 mms long, usually chestmt brown and rather glossy, sometimes tan= =/ 
color, the midvein paler; perigynia green, becaning straw-color, ovate, 
appressed, 3.5-4.5 mn. lom, flat on one face and tu without 
or weakly veined, rounded on the other face and i OMe 
thin and sharp, finely toothed, rather abruptly 
about 1.5 mme longs | 
Meadows and mountain sides of Yellow Pine belt, 
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C. pashystachya Cham. -_—>Densely caespitose, with numerous 
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fibrous roots, the culms erect, slender, longer than the leaves, smooth 
or slightly rmghoned, rather bluntly angled, 20-60 om. tall; leaft> al | 
blades flat, mostly 2-4 mm. wide, somewhat rough; spikes 3-8, brown, 
bearing both staminate and pistillate flowers, congested into terminal 
ovoid heads 6-20 mm. lonz, the tracts small and inconspicuous; scales 
ovate, acute or acwnimate, brown end shining, thin, 3-3.5 mms long; 
psrigynie spresding at maturity, ovate, 3.5-5 mn. long, flet on me 
facs having there usually 3 incomplete veins which rarely reach the 
niddla of the porigvniun, rounded on the other face and bearing there 
ebout 7 slender veins which join near the base, green, becaning brown, 
rounded at ths DASE gradually acuminate into a slender beak abcut 
1.5 mie long which is obliquely incised but otherwise entire, the margins 
very thin and sharp; 
, a: var. sracilis wack.) ) 
Frequent in wet meadowSse 
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