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narrow (about a line wide), long-pointed, about the length of the 

 culm : spikes three to five, oblong, erect, (four to ten lines long, 

 one to two lines wide), the upper ones contiguous, the lowest one or 

 two on exserted peduncles, the one or two uppermost all staminate 

 or staminate at the apex : scales ovate, obtuse or nearly so, purple 

 with a green rib : perigynium slightly hairy above, very short-beaked. 

 The intermediate spikes often have staminate flowers at base or 

 apex. — " Summit of the Rocky Mts.," Drummond 283 (lat. about 

 59°). 



97. Carex Fkanklinii, Boott, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 217, t. 218. 

 Culm stiff and tall (thirty inches or more high), obtusely angled, 



smooth or very nearly so, far surpassing the narrow and loose upright 

 leaves : spikes six to eight, the five or six uppermost linear and 

 crowded, either staminate at the apex or throughout, the two or three 

 lowest ovate, more or less exserted, staminate at the apex : bracts 

 short and narrow : perigynium ovate, very short-beaked, hairy on the 

 angles above, longer than the broad and more or less obtuse scale. A 

 fine species. Bears the name of the unfortunate Sir John Franklin. 

 — Rocky Mountains, about lat. 59°, Drummond. 



98. Carex misandra, R. Brown, Suppl. Parry's Voy. 283. 



C. fuUginosa, Sternb. «& Hoppe, Act. Soc. Bot. Ratisbon. i. 

 159, t. 3. 



C. fuUginosa, var. misandra., Lang, Linnrea (1851), xxiv. 597. 



G. misandra, var. elatior, Lange, Fl. Groen. 140. 

 C. misandra is the more recent name, but Sternberg & Hoppe 

 applied the name C. fuUginosa to this species thinking it to be the 

 C. fuUginosa of Schkuhr, which is G.frigida of Allioni. The species 

 was first distinguished by Robert Brown. — Varies greatly in height, 

 from one inch to a foot, and in the shape and color of the spikes. 

 Two or three spikes are sometimes borne in the upper sheath. — 

 Gray's Peak, Colorado, M. E. Jones, Patterson (" in dense sod "), and 

 throughout Arctic America. 



99. Carex atrofusca, Schkuhr, Riedgr. 106, f. 82. 



G. ustulata, Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 156. 

 G. ustulata, var. minor, Boott, 111. 71, t. 194. 

 Distinguished at once from C. misandra by the very flat and broadly 

 ovate and abruptly beaked perigynium, which is usually broader and 

 longer than the scale : spikes short and thick, mostly ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, on peduncles an inch or less long: terminal spike staminate 

 or androgynous. — Greenland according to Boeckeler. N. Europe. 



