FERNALD. — CARICES OF SECTION HYPARRHENAE. 485 



cm. long ; the 3 to 6 subglobose or oblong-cylindric densely 15- to 50- 

 flowered olive-green spikelets crowded or distinct: the thick strongly many- 

 nerved perigynia broad-ovate, 3 to 3.5 mm. long, squarrose or with 

 recurved tips. — Sp. iv. 208 ; Schkuhr, Riedgr. Nacht. 3, t. Mmm, fig. 

 146. G. stellulata, var. sterilis, Carey in Gray, Man. 544. G. stellulata, 

 var. conferia, Chapman, Fl. 534. G. echinata, var. conferta, Bailey, 

 Carex Cat. 2, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 143, Mem. Torr. CI. i. 58, & in 

 Gray, Man. ed. 6, G18 ; Macoun, 1. c. 126. G. atlantica, Bailey, Bull. 

 Torr. CI. xx. 425 ; Britton, 1. c. 350. — Bogs and clamp pine-barrens, 

 near the coast from Newfoundland to Florida, rarely inland on 

 cold bogs, at Lake St. John, Quebec {G. G. Kennedy)-, Squapau, 

 Aroostook Co., and northern flank (near Bell Camp) of Mt. Katahdin, 

 Maine (Fernald) ; Adirondack Mts., Essex Co., New York (Knies- 

 kern) ; and Mt. Sorrow, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (C. E. Smith). 

 June, July. 



= = Low : leaves 0.5 to 2 (very rarely 2.5) mm. broad: scales blunt. 



28. C. interior, Bailey. — Figs. 101 to 105. — Slender, 1.5 to 5 

 dm. high ; the leaves 1 to 2 (rarely 2.5) mm. broad, shorter than or 

 exceeding the rather stiff culms : spike 1 or 2 cm. long ; the 2 to 5 spike- 

 lets all fertile, all sterile, or variously mixed, usually subglobose, J+ or 5 

 mm. in diameter, the terminal long-clavate at base, 5- to lo-flowered: 

 perigynia firm, plump, olive-green or -brown, more or less nerved or 

 almost nerveless, broadly deltoid-ovate, obscurely short-beaked and with 

 slightly thickened margin, 2.3 to 3.2 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. broad, 

 fiually wide-spreading or recurved, much exceeding the oblong or ovate 

 blunt scales. — Bull. Torr. CI. xx. 426 ; Britton, 1. c. fig. 846 ; Howe, 1. c. 

 39. C. scirpoides, Schkuhr, Riedgr. Nacht. 19, t. Zzz, fig. 180 ; Willd. 

 Sp. iv. 237; Schwein. & Torr. 1. c. 317; Dewey, Am. Jour. Sci. viii. 

 96 ; not G. scirpoidea, Michx. C. stelhdata y, Torr. 1. c. 392. C. 

 stellulata, var. scirpina, Tuck. Enurn. Meth., 9, not G. scirpina, Tuck. 

 1. c. 8. C. stellulata, var. scirpoides, Carey in Gray, Man. 544 ; Boott, 

 111. i. 56, t. 146.** C. echinata, Boeckeler, Linnaea, xxxix. 124, in part, 

 not Murray. G. norvegica, E. P. Sheldon, Bull. Torr. CI. xx. 284, & 

 Minn. Bot. Studies, i. 224, not Wahl. In damp or wet soil, New Bruns- 

 wick to Rupert Land and Vancouver Island, south to Florida 

 and Arizona. Commonest northward and in the interior. May-July. 



Var. capillacea, Bailey. Stiff, culms almost setaceous ; leaves about 

 0.5 mm. broad, often involute : perigynia strongly nerved. — Bull. Torr. 

 CI. xx. 426; Howe, 1. c. ; Britton, 1. c. 351. — New Hampshire to 

 New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 



