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Jefferson Co., N. York, Crawe ; near Mackinaw, Michigan, Loring, 

 and northward ; California, Bigeloiv, near Mendocino City, Bolander 

 4739, Red Mts., Bolander^ Coast Range, Bolander 6193 ; Oregon, 

 Hall, Howell; Alaska, Mertens. Europe. 

 Var. CONFERTA, Bailey, Carex Cat. 



C. stellulata, and var. conferta, Chapm. Flora, 534. 

 Differs from the species in the oblong, densely flowered, and more 

 spreading spikes and recurved perigynium. — Along the coast from 

 Florida to Newfoundland, La Pylaie. 



Var. MiCROSTACHYS, Boeckeler, Linngea, xxxix. 125. 



G. stellulata, var. radiata, Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 147. 



O. scirpoides, Schkuhr, Riedgr. Nachtr. 19, f. 180. 



G. sterilis, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 208. 



G. sterilis, vars. i3 and y, Torr. Monogr. 392. 



G. stellulata, vars. scirpoides, sterilis, and angustata, Carey, Gray's 



Man. 1848, 544. 

 G. echinata, var. angnstata, Bailey, Carex Cat. 

 Var. microcarpa, Bailey, Coulter's Man. 895 (a clerical error). 

 More slender : spikes small and more or less scattered : perigy- 

 nium smaller, less conspicuously beaked, the scales usually shorter in 

 proportion to the perigynium than in the species. Perplexingly vari- 

 able. — Throughout the States east of the Mississippi and those bor- 

 dering it on the west ; Twin Lakes, Colorado, Wolf 1018 ; Moose 

 Mts., British America, Macoun. Europe. 



* * Perigynium ovate or nearly so, not sharp-margined, firm in texture, mostly erect 

 in closely fioioered and ronndtd spikes. 



262. Carex canescens, Linn. Sp. PI. 974. 

 G. carta, Gooden. Linn. Trans, ii. 145. 

 G. vitilis, var. pallida, Olney, Bot. King's Rep. 364, v. s. 

 From Pennsylvania and Ohio to Arctic America and Oregon. 

 Europe. 



Var. DUBiA, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. ix. 119. 



G. elongata, Olney, Bot. King's Rep. 365, v. s., not Linn. ; Bai- 

 ley, Coulter's Man. 394, excl. descr. 

 Uintah Mts., Utah, Watson, and Alta, Wahsatch Mts.,. Jones. 



Var. ALPicoLA, Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 232. 

 G. Gebhardii, Hoppe, Caric. t. 30. 

 G. curta, var. brunnescens, Pers. Syn. ii. 539. 

 G. Richardii, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 170. 

 G. vitilis. Fries, Mant. iii. 137. 



