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(Ge) ats the culms stout, 5 mm. thick, 50-100 am, tall, anireny 
angled, rough; leaf-blades pale green, soft, roughened toward 
tips, commonly 8-12 mn. wide; staminate spike solitary, 4-7 + ac 
Jong, 5-5 mmo wide; pistillate spikes 4-5 approximate, nearly sessile 
sti or , 
long cylin 3-6 om. long, 6-7 mm. thi 
acute; perigynia 5 mm. long, obovate, inflated and sanewhat 
glabrous, abruptly tapered to a beak about 1 mm. long, tek ho usually 
somewhat curved, the tip subentire, oblique. 
C. limosa Le. -—_______> Strongly long stoloiferous, the culms 
- arising obliquely at the base, very slender and graceful, 20-40 om. 
tall, sharply angled, roughened above; leaves pale and glaucous, their 
blades channelled, 1-2 mm. wide; terminal spike stanfinate,12-18 mn. 
long, 1-5-2 mm. thick, borne on a slender stalk usually as long as or 
longer than the spike; lateral spikes pistillate, usually 2-3, usually 
drooping, ovoid-cylindrical, 6-12 mm. icng, 5~6 mm. thick, borne on 
slender stalks usually longer than the spike; lowermost bracts shorter 
than the inflorescence; scales oval, obtuse or mucronate, 3.5-4 nm. long, 
at length dull pale brown or tan color, firm; perig-rir green then 
dull white, glaucous, subequal to the scales, oval, narrowed at the base, 
very mimitely beaked, the beak subentire. 
Sphagnum bog, Priest Lake, Epling 8582. 
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