Angustior Mack. —> Densely caespitose, t 
D ome tall, slender, sharply angled, roughened above, week {ee 
than the leaves; leaf-blades flat but somewhat traugh-shaped toward 
the base, 1-2 mm. wide, roughened towards the tips; spikes 3-6, approximate 
but not crowled, rather evenly spaced, forming a slender infloressence 
12=20 mm. long, the lowermost bract acicular, usually 5-10 mm. jong 
sono tines merely hyaline and scarcely developed; terminal spi useclly 
with both staminate and pistillate flowers, the latter towards the tip 
the lateral spikes mostly pistillate, 3<4 mm, long, subglobose in outline; 
scales ovate, acute, 15-2 mm. long, tinged with brown, mostly hyaline; 
perneaia — Pt god ovate~lanceolate, brown, shining, about 3 
mme long, tapering © a beak nearly as 1 
thisier teeth j , ly ong as the body, its margins 
Wour Pierce, Epling-and-tower amp; Cocellala, Cbrvot at» 
wr as 
C. oxycarpa Holm. -———> Caespitose and stoloniferos with 
creeping slender roctstocks, the culms mostly 30-60 om. tall, slender, 
sharply angled, nearly smooth; leaves few, noticeably shorter than the 
culms, their blades flat, 2-3 mm. wide, sharp, somewhat roughened, the 
sheaths splitting into a few loose filements, the lowermost leaves firm 
and soalelike, brown, shining; staminate spikes mostly solitary, on 
short stalks, 1.5-4 om. long, 2.5 mm. wide, brown; pistillate spikes 
usually 3-5, narrowly cylindrical, dark brown, 3.5-4 mme thick,1.5-3.5 
cme long, shortly stalked, or nearly sessile, the uppermost en partly 
staminate; lowermost bracts about equal to the inflorescence or exceeding 
it; scales narrowly oblong-ovate, firm, nearly as lmg as the perigynia, 
with green midribs ami dark purple margins; perigynia crowded, overlapping, 
narrowed at both ends, flattened, faintly 2-3-veined, dull straw-color or 
greenish, abruptly beaked, the beak about .3 mme long, not toothed. 
Near Pierce, “pling—end—Horck-9608 ; 
Orogrande Cre, 3000 ft. 
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