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CI. i. 23, & in Gray, 1. c. — Damp or even very dry soil, principally on 

 the coastal plain, New Brunswick to Florida, Texas, Mexico, and 

 Central America; rarely inland to Bear Mt., Livermore, Maine 

 (Kate Furbish) ; Mt. Monadnock, alt. 925 m., New Hampshire {R. 

 M. Harper) ; Tagbkanick Range, Columbia Co., New York {L. H. 

 Hoysradt) ; also from Lake Huron to Manitoba. July-Sept. 



b. Plant not very stiff : the bright green or brownish spikelets witli spreadhig 

 or ascending (not appressed) perigynia. 



1. Leaves 2.5 to C mm. wide : culms 0.3 to 1.5 m. high. 



10. C. MiRABiLis, Dewey. — Figs. 25, 26, — Culms very loose and 

 smooth; leaves soft and thin, the sheaths rather loose : spikelets 4 to 12, 

 greenish, subglobose or ovoid, 5 to 9 mm. long, mostly approximate in an 

 oblong spike ; pei-igynia with divergent tips. — Am. Jour. Sci. xxx. 63, 

 t. Bb, fig, 92; Boott, 1. c. 117 (under C. cristata), t. 374; Howe, 1. c. 

 46. C. straminea^ var. mii'abilis, Tuck. 1. c. 9, 18; Bailey, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xxii. 150, & in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 621 ; Britton, 1. c. 358. G. 

 festticacea^ var, mirabilis, Carey, 1. c. 545. C cristata, Kunze, Car. 

 t. 44, figs. «, e, and y (colored), not Schwein. C. cristata, var. mirabilis, 

 Gray, Man. ed. 5, 580. C. lagopodioides, \ ax. mirabilis, Olney, Exsicc. 

 fasc. ii, no. 9. C. tribuloides, var. cristata., Macoun, 1. c. 130, in part, 

 not Bailey. — Dry banks, open woods, or even moist copses, central 

 Maine to Manitoba, south to North Carolina and Missouri. 

 June, July. 



Var. perlonga- — Fig. 27. — Spikelets scattered in a moniliform spike. 

 — New Hampshire, dry thicket, Barrett Mt., New Ipswich, June 5, 1896 

 (J/. L. Fernald): Vermont, Little Notch, July 9, 1901 {E. Brainerd) : 

 Massachusetts, Stoneham, June 5, 1887 {F. S. Collins) ; Oak Island, 

 Revere, July 5, 1891 (IF, P. Rich); Beaver Brook Reservation, July 6, 

 1894 (C. W. Swan) ; Sharon, June 17, 1896 (W. P. Rich) : Connecti- 

 cut, dry open woods, Southington, June 17, 1900 (C. H. Bissell) : 

 New York, Binghamton, June 29, 1871 (Wm. Boott); Sacondago 

 River (J. V. Haberer) : Michigan, Grosse Isle, June 30, 1867 {Wm. 

 Boott) ; open swales, Lansing, June 8, 1886 (Z. H. Bailey., no. 283, 

 in part) : Illinois, Marion Co. (M. S. Behb). 



Var. tincta. Spike of 3 to 7 ovoid approximate brotcn-tinged spike- 

 lets : scale hmcn with a pale margin. — New Brunsavick, banks of 

 St. John River, July 4, 1899 {J. Macoun, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 

 22) : Maine, Fort Kent, June 16, 1898 (no, 2158), Masardis, June 6, 

 1898 (no, 2159), Ashland, June 13, 1898 (no. 2160), Fort Fairfield, 



