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(40. C. concinnoides Mack. ————» Tufted and strongly stoloniferous, 
the culms smooth, slender, 12-25 om. tall; leaf-blades pale green, 2-5 1 
nm. wide, rough; staminate spike solitary, subsessile, 10-20 mm. long, 
dark purple; pistillate spikes 1-2, crowded at the tip of the culm, 
5-10 mm. long, 4-5 mm. thick, sessile or shortly stalked; bracts shorter 
than the inflorescence, thin end purple with soarious ciliolate margins, 
loosely sheathing at the base, the blades rudimentary; scales amrrewly 
ovate, obtuse, narrower and shorter than the perigynia, deep purple with 
scearious colorless margins; perigynia 2.5-3 mm. long, membranous, over= 
lapping, loosely pubescent, tapering at the base, very minutely beaked, ; 
the beak subentire; stigmas 3{ cautuus +). 
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Dry pine woods near Coeur d'Alene; Bonners Berrys ~ 
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C. Rossii Boott. -— >» Densely caespitose with stout rootstocks, 
‘ $he culms slender, wiry, mostly smooth, 15-30 om. tall, leafy; leaf | 
blades 1-2.5 mn. wide, roughened toward the apex; steminate spikes 
solitary, subsessile, 5-10 mn. long, 1 mm. thick; pistillate spikes 
few, approximate at the tips of the culms, subsessile, 4 solitary one 
eqpewer usually borne at the base of the culm on an ot stalicys 
scales ovate, 5-5 mme long, strongly a te or even state, thin, 
green along the midrib, tinged with brown near the margin; perigynia 
3-4 mm. long, stalked, hirtellous, subglobose, abruptly, beaked, the 
beak about 1 mm. long, sharply and deeply 2-toothed. 
In meadows and moist soil along trails. 
