(3i,) Be ee nosa Michx. —-»Rootstocks stout, 1-2 um. in diameter, 
; creeping, the culms 50-80 om. tall, reddish toward the base and usually : 
sparingly decorated with fibrils fram the ruptured sheaths, sharply 
angled and raigh above; leaf=blades flat, 2-4 mm. wide sharp and rough { 
the sheaths rather loose; staminate spikes usually is less often 2-3 , 
5-4 mne wide, 2-3 om. long; pistillate spikes camonly 2-3, cylindrical ' 
1-4 om. long, 5-7 mm. wide, mostly sessile, the perigynia crowded, ‘ : 
ascending; lower bracts mostly longer than the culms; scales ovatec> =| 
acuminate, narrower than the perigynia but about as long, coppery, with 
thin margins; perigynia obovate, 3 um. long, densely short pubescent, : 
narrowed toward the base, abruptly narrowed and two-toothed at the apex. : 
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Placer Cr., near Wallace, 3000 NOAA se spared : 
Pierce ,kpiing—and—Houck_964%; Moscow Mt. } 
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Ce lasiocarpa Ehrhe -——_______> Caespitose, freely long stelon- 
' "{ferous, the stolons tough, slender, the culms mostly 40-80 om. tall, 
slender, stiffish, mostly mooth, or lightly roughened, obtusely 
angled, purplish at the base, the sheaths breaking i::.c fer filarents; 
leaf-blades noticeably shorter than the culms, attemate, usually less 
than 2 mm. wide, inrolled, roughened on the inrolled margins; staminate 
spikes usually 2, slender and erect, 2=€ om. long; pistillate spikes 
mostly sessile, cylinirical, usually 2-4 cm. long, 5-6 mm. thick, erect, 
the perigynia crowded and ascending; lower bracts about as long as the 
culm; scales narrowly ovate, acute, abut equal to the perigynia, green 
along the midribs with thin and brownish margins; perigynia ovoid, 
5-505 mm. jong, densely short pubescent, green, narrowed and rounded at 
the base, abruptly narrowed above to a short beak, 2-toothed at the 
APEX. 
q@ St. Maries, Epling and Putnam 10277. 
