(257—> C. lnevicul@is Meinsh. — > Caespitose, with slender toot stocks, 
the culms 30-60 om. tall, weak and often drooping, roughened toward the 
apex; leaf-blades 1-2 mm. wide, soft, flat, mostly smooth; spikes 
camonly 5-6, subglobose, 4-6 mm. long, clearly separated, the lowermost 
especially remote, as much as 2.5 ome , forming ost sig-sae inflor- 
escence 5-5 om. long, or more, the lowermost b aci 
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developed, usually surpassing the spike it subtends, y nearly as 
ong as the inflorescence; scales broadly ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long, hyaline 
or tinged with brown except for the rather praminent green midrib which 
does not quite extend to the tip; perigynia 2.5-3 mm. long, green and 
rather glossy, becoming straw color, broadly ovate, the body subrotund, 
broadest near the middle, one face usually flat, the other rounded, 
both faintly but clearly veined tapering rather abruptly into a beak 
1/3-1/2 os iter as the body, its margins finely toothed; 
In meadows and along amall stream margins, especially characteristic 
of the latter. 
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(2.6) C. interior Bailey. —_» Densely caespitose, with slender 
rootstocks, the culms 20-40 om, tall, very slender, rough at the apex; 
leaf=-blades 1-2 mm. wide, flat or sanewhat trough= shaped r the base; 
spikes 3-4, approximate at the tip of the culm, forming ax lorescence 
10-26 mm. long, the lowermost bract scarcely developed, resembling the 
scales, the terminal spike with both steminate and pistillate flowers, 
the latter towards the tip, the lateral spikes pistillate, subglobose, 
5-4 mm. long; scales broadly ovate, obtuse tinged with brown but mostly 
hyaline; perigynia brown, shining, 225-3 mme long, ovate, the margins 
ribbed, flat on one face and there nearly veinless, rounded on the other 
and faintly veined, tapering rather abruptly into a short beak half as 
long as the body or less, finely toothed on the margin» 
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Upper Priest Re; Sandpoint, 
