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Ce. vesicaria L. 7 Rootstocks stout, 1.53 mms in 
diameter, shortly creeping end stoloniferous, the culms 30-90 om. 
tall, reddish towards the base, sharply angled and rough above; leaf=> 
blades 5-6 mm. wide, flat, rough, the sheaths rather loose, eee 
splitting sanewhat into fibrils; staminate spikes usually 2-3, very 
slender, 2-4 cme long, 2-5 mms wide; pistillate spikes 1-3, usually on 
short peduncles, erect, cylinirical, prevailingly 3-5 om. long, Guid 
mme wide, many-flowered, the perigynia ascending; lower bracts longer |‘. 
than the culms; scales narrowly ovate, 3-4 mme long, very acute, — 
coppery; perigynia narrowly ovoid, 5-6 mm. long, rounded at the base, 
rather abruptly tapering into the beak, 8-10-veined, shining, 2-tobdthed 
at the apex. 
pee Fale er monile var. pacifica Bailey). 
ta ph et 
Cy. oexsiccata Bailey. —»Rootstocks stout, short creeping, 
1.5-5 mn. in diameter, the culms 30-90 cm. tall, reddish towards the 
base, sharply angled and rough above; leaf-blades 3-6 mm. wide, flat, 
rough and sharp, the sheaths rather loose, usually splitting sanewhat 
into fibrils; staminate spikes usually 2-3, very slender, 2-4 om. long, 
qd) 2-3 mn. wide; pistillate spikes 1-3, usually on short peduncles, erect, 
| cylindrical, prevailingly 5-5 om. long, 12-14 mm. wide, many-flowered, 
the perigynia ascending; lower bracts lenger than the culms; scales 
broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 4-5 mm. long, thin, reddish; porigynia 
narrowly ovoid, 8-9 mm. long, sanewhat inflated, lightly 8-]O ribbed, 
rounded at the base, tapering gradually ebove the middle, shining, 
2~toothed at the apex. 
<>(C. vesicaria var. major Boott.), 
St. Maries, Epling and Offord 8029. 
(S4 > Ce rostrata Stokes. —> Caespitose and stoloniferms, 
the culms stout, mostly 80-100 om. tall, leafy at the base, ebtusely 
triangular, roughened below the lowest spike; leaf-blades mostly 6-8 
mne broad, flat, sharp, the edges and midribs rmgh, strongly cross =) 
veined, staminate spikes usually 2-3, rarely 1, slender, 1.5-6.5 om. 
long, 5-4 mm. wide, usually crowded and overlapping; pistillate spikes 
3-5, mostly sessile, cylindrical, many«flowered, dense, prevailingly 
4-7 ome long, the perigynia tending to spread at maturity; eee inter- 
mediate spikes ase often composed of both svaminate and pistillate 
flowers; lower bracts longer than the oilms; scales oblons or oblona> = 
lanceolate, scute, narrower than the perigynia and usually shorter, 
brownish; perigynie narrowly ovoid, straw-color or greenishy shining, 
rounded at the base, lichtlvy inflated, graduallv attenuate above or more 
often rather abruptly narrowed into the beak which is 2=toothed at the 
q): ADOXe >(C. utriculata Boott.). “ 
