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266. Carex remota, Linn. Sp. PL 2d ed. 1383. 



Resembles tall and lax forms of C. canesceris, but differs in the much 

 scattered spikes (an inch or more apart) which are subtended by long 

 and lax leafy bracts (one to four inches long). — Newfoundland accord- 

 ing to Gay, and Sitka according to Flora Rossica. Europe. 



267. Carex tendiflora, Wahl. Kiingl. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 147. 

 Cold swamps from Central New York and Northern New England 



to Northern Minnesota and Hudson's Bay. Rare. Europe. 



268. Carex phyllomanica, W. Boott, Bot. Calif, ii. 233. 



" Culm six to eighteen inches high, smooth : leaves rigid, a line or 

 two broad, attenuated into a sharp triangular summit, much exceeding 

 the stem: lowest bract filifoi'm, often far exceeding the culm, the others 

 scale-like and shorter than their spikelets : head chestnut-colored, 

 oblong (three fourths inch long), composed of from three to six spikes 

 which are contiguous or the upper ones crowded, the uppermost one 

 the largest (three or four lines long) and linear-club-shaped, the others 

 ellipsoidal : scales broadly ovate or roundish, obtuse, chestnut-colored 

 with green mid-nerve and hyaline margins: perigyniura lance-ovate, 

 obtuse at the base, gradually tapering into an obliquely cut nearly 

 entire beak, the orifice and long fissure on the outer side reddish brown, 

 serrate above on the acute margins, not nerved, a little longer than the 

 scale." — In sphagnous swamps near Mendocino City, California, 

 Bolander 4746. 



269. Carex Norvegica, Schkuhr, Riedgr. 50. 



Wells, Maine, Blake, and northward. Evidently rare in America. 

 Europe. 



270. Carex heleonastes, Ehrhart; Linn. fil. Suppl. 414. 

 G. Garltonia, Dewey, Sill. Journ. xxvii. 238. 



C. marina, Dewey, 1. c. xxix. 247. 

 Culm stiff, rough on the angles, about a foot high, longer than the 

 rigid involute leaves : spikes brown, globular, aggregated into an 

 oblong head a half-inch or less long: perigynium broadly elliptical, 

 plump, marked with slender brown nerves, about the length of or 

 longer than the acute brown scale. Resembles some of the stiff alpine 

 forms of C. canescens, var. alpicola. — Norway House and York Fac- 

 tory, Herb., and Kicking Horse Lake, Rocky Mts., Macoun, British 

 America. Europe. 



271. Carex lagopina, Wahl. Kongl. Acad, Handl. xxiv. 145. 

 Smaller than the last, the leaves flat : spikes mostly oblong, nar- 

 rowed below : scales abruptly acute. Too near the last and the next 



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