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13 mm. long: perigynia 4 to 4.8 mm. long, 2 to 2.3 mm. broad. — Bot. 

 Gaz. xvii. 151; Britton, 1. c. 355, fig. 859. — Open prairies, western 

 Manitoba and adjacent Assiniboia. July. 



b. Obovoid spikelets brownish or ferrugineous : the loosely ascending perigynia 

 dark green or brown when mature, 



1. Spike loose and fiexuous ; spikelets mostly long-clavate at base, the lowest 

 remote : acliene 1.5 (1.3 to 1.7) mm. broad. 



21. C. aenea. — Figs. 63 to 66. — Culms smooth and wiry, but more 

 or less Jlexuous at tip, 0.25 to 1.2 m. high : leaves much shorter, rather 

 soft and flat, 2 to 4 mm. broad : spike loosely cylindric or ynoniliform, 

 of 3 to 12 spikelets 0.8 to 2.5 cm. long (in luxuriant plants often 

 peduncled or compound): perigynium 4 to 5 mm. long, 1.9 to 2.7 mm. 

 broad. — C. adusta, Boott, 1. c. iii. 119, in part, t. 380, not Boott in 

 Hook. Fl. Bor.-Ara. ii. 215. C albolutescens, var. sparsijlora, OIney, 

 fasc. V. no. 11, in part (as nomen nudum), not C. sparsijlora Fries. G. 

 adusta, var. sparsijlora, Bailey, Carex Cat. 2 (as nomen nudum) ? 0. 

 foenea, var. perplexa, Bailey, Mem. Torr. CI. i. 27, as to syn. , in part. 

 0. Joenea, var. sparsijlora, Howe, 1. c. 44. — Open woods, dry banks, 

 or rarely in low ground. Labrador, without station, Aug. 23, 1896 

 (Spreadborough, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 13,354) : Ungava, East 

 Main E., 1892 {A. H. D. Ross, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 30,582) : 

 Newfoundland, Grand Lake, Bay of Islands, Aug. 6, 1897 {A. C. 

 Waghorne): Quebec, Riviere du Loup, July 23, 1861 (Wm. Boott), 

 Aug. 2, 1896 (in. Brainerd): Calumet, June, 1891 {J. M. Macoun, 

 Hb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 16,535) : New Brunswick, Kent Co. 

 (J. Fowler, in Olney, Exsicc. fasc. v. no. 11, in part): Maine, Fort 

 Fairfield, 1881 {Kate Furbish)-, Milford, June 30, 1864 (/. Blake); 

 Orono, July 7, 1892, July 3, 1897, June 8, 1901 {M. L. Fernald) ; 

 Mt. Desert Island, numerous stations (Rand, Faxon, Williams et al.) : 

 New Hampshire, Franconia, June 23, 1888 (F. S; G. F. Faxon) ; 

 Crawford Notch, July 16, 1895 (G. G. Kennedy): Vermont, East 

 Mt., Middlebury, June 23, 1882, Moosalamoo Mt., Salisbury, July 5, 

 1901 (E. Brainerd) ; MASSACHUSfeTTS, Mt. Wachusett, June 27, 1878 

 (Win. Boott) : New York, base of Stony Creek Mt., June 29, 1899 

 (Rowlee, Wiegand Sf Hasti?igs) : Ontario, near Michipicoten, July 26, 

 1869, Cache Lake, July 12, 14, 1900 (/. Macoun); Lake Victoria, 

 Sept. 12, 1901 (F. Brainerd) : Michigan, Isle Royale (JI. Gillman) : 

 Athabasca, Methy Portage (Sir John Richardson, fide Boott, 111. t. 

 380) : Alberta, Banff, Rocky Mts., July 10, 1891 (/. Macoun, Herb. 



