FERNALD. — CARrCES OP SECTION HYPARRHENAE. 493 



1.5 to 5.5 cm. long, of 2 to G ovoid or broad-oblong spihelets ; the lower 

 5 to 12 mm. long, the terminal, including the clavate sterile base, 1 to 

 1.8 cm. long : perigynia pale, faintly nerved, 2.5 to 3.3 mm. long, 1.6 to 

 2 mm. broad, conic-rostrate, usually abruptly contracted to a substipitate 

 base, about equalled by the yellotvish brown orbicular to ovate blunt scales. 

 — Willd. ex. Schkuhr, Riedgr. 50, t. S, no. 6G, & Spec. iv. 227 ; Wahlenb. 

 Kougl. Vet. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 146, & Fl. Lapp. 233, t. 15, fig. 3; 

 Anders. Cyp. Scand. 61, t. 4, fig. 29 ; Goodale in Holmes, Prelim. 

 Rep. Nat. Hist. & Geol. Me. (1861), 128, & Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. i. 135; Gray, Man. ed. 3, Addend, xcvii : Boott, 1. c. iv. 211; 

 Fl. Dan. Suppl. 13, t. 103; Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 115; 

 Macoun, 1. c. 125 ; Britton, 1. c. 351, fig. 849 (as to babital sketch). — 

 Brackish marshes, northern Scandinavia. Damp usually brackish 

 soil, coast of southern Labrador : Anticosti Island, and Kamouraska, 

 Saguenay, Rimouski, and Gaspc Cos., Quebec : locally southward along 

 the coast in New Brunswick at Shediac, Westmoreland Co., and 

 Back Bay, Charlotte Co. (J. Brittain, herb. Geol. Surv. Can. nos. 

 30,421 & 30,420); Whale Cove, Grand Manau and Fryes Island 

 {Hay) : Nova Scotia, Baddeck, Cape Breton and Truro (/. Macoun, 

 herb. Geol. Surv. Can. nos. 20,846 & 30,422) ; Boylston (C. A. Ham- 

 ilton, herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 25,521) : Maine, Little Cranberry 

 Isle (Redfield) ; Wells (Blake): reported from Alaska. 1 June-Aug. 



= = Spikelets approximate at the tip of the culm, the lowest 2.5 to 4 mm. 



thick. 



a. Plant weak and lax, with filiform or involute leaves. 



39. C. glareosa, Wahlenb. — Figs. 137, 138. — Culms acutely 

 angled, mostly curved, scabrous at tip, 1 to 3 dm. high, once and a half 

 or twice exceeding the flaccid narrow (0.5 to 1.5 mm. broad) leaves : 

 spike oblong to obovoid, 0.7 to 2 cm. long, with 2 to 4 oppressed- 

 ascending obovoid spihelets; the lower If. to 9 mm. long, 3 or If. mm. thick, . 

 the terminal larger, including the slender sterile base, 6 to 11 mm. long: 

 perigynia pale, elliptic or ovate, acute at base, with narrowly conic beak, 

 faintly nerved or nerveless, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, 1.1 to 1.0 mm. broad, 

 nearly or quite equalled by the ferrugi neons ivJiite-edgcd ovate acutish 

 scales. — Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 146, & Fl. Lapp. 230; Willd. 



1 Prof. Conway MacMillan has courteously forwarded me the Minnesota speci- 

 mens referred to C. norvegica by Mr. E. P. Sheldon (Bull. Torr. CI. xx. 284, & Minn. 

 Bot. Studies, i. 224), and they prove to be C. interior, Bailey. 



