pegii We Boott. -—_———>Caespitose. with short ascending 
culms slender, 50-70 cm. tall, roughened in the upper 
wiping sharply angled; leaf-blades flat, sharp, 1.5-2.5 mn. wide, — 
green, rough, with rather prominent white margins on the sheaths; stan- 
inate spikes mostly solitary, 1-2.5 om. long, 2.6-5 mm. thick, rather 
loose, browns pistillate spikes usually 4-5, sessile, approximate and 
often overlapping, erect, 1.5-5.5 om. long, oS mms thick, the porigynia 
PE tng overlapping; lowermost bracts e ng the culms; seales 
1.65=2.5 ome long, mosthy.ovaly:blunt, firm, deep purple and somewhat 
shining except the pale midrib and very narrow thin whi. margins; peri- 
gynia strongly flattened with sharp margins, pale dull green, 2.5<3 mm. : 
long, faintly 3<5-veined, the about ce as long as broad 
at the base to an abrupt short co abruptly beaked, the beak mimte, i 
minutely 2~toothed. 
Fish Lake, 6000 ft. 
(323 C. lentioularis Michx. ~———> Densely caespitose with mmerms 
fkbrous roots, the culms 30-60 om. tall, often exeeeded by the leaves, 
Slender, nearly smooth or somewhat roughened above, rather blunt, on the 
angles; leaf-blades very slender, attemate, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, » Septet 
roughened; steminate spikes 1-2, sanetimes partly pistillate, 1 
long, 2-3 mm. thick, light brown, umally stalked; pistillate spikes 
approximate, shertly stalled, prevailingly green, cylinirical, 1-3 em. 
long, 5e5=-4 mm, thick, densely flowered; lowermost bracts longer than H 
the inflorescence; scales oval, mostly obtuse, green or whitish along ; 
the middle, purple towards the margins, 2 mm. long; perigynia 2.5 mn. 
long, flattened but sanewhat plump, dull pale green or white, oval, 
S<4-veined on om surface, abot 7-veined on the other, the body about 
ec as broad as long, narrowed at the base and nearly sessile, nimitely 
fA Fees ee. 
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