iy 2. microcarpus Presl. ———»> Perennial herb, the stems ,5-1.5 m, tall, 
leafy throughout, often surpassed by the leaves; leaves flat, 8-12 mm, wide, 
scabrous on the margins; spikelets 3-4 mm, long, numerous, borne in loose 
spreading compound umbels; umbels subtended by several unequal leaflike bracts 
which often exceed them; scales 2 mm, long, broadly ovate, obtuse but mucronate, 
the midrib a margins very thin, now colorless, now flecked with green, 
the spikelets then appearing dark green; bristles commonly 4, somewhat longer 
than the achene; stamens 2; style 2-cleft; achene obovate, whitish, shining, 
flat on one side, convex on the other, acute at the apex. 
Common in seepage spots and boggy places especially within the Thuja-type. 
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&. S- subterminalis Torr. ————-> A perennial herb usually growing in 
shallow water of marshes, the stems slender, columnar, 1-1.5 mm. in diameter; 
leaves slender, linear, channeled, 15-30 cm. long, scarcely 1 mm. wide; 
spikelet about 10 mm. long, ovoid, solitary, terminal but subtended by a short 
stiffish bract 1.5-5 cm. long which appears as a continuation of the stem; 
scales elliptical or narrowly ovate, acute, membranous, straw-colored with a 
green midrib; bristles about 6, downwardly barbed, subequal to the achene; 
stamens 5; style J-cleft; achene obovate, 3-angled, 2-2.5 mm. long, sharply 
beaked, dark-brown at maturity. 
Marshes, Kootenai Co., Leiberg 304; Granite Sta., Sandberg 781. 
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