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Spikelets few or several, seldom two, exceptionally 

 one 1998 



Spikelets numerous .- .. .. ... ... 2004 



1998. Spikelets abbreviated 1999 



Spikelets elongated ... 2003 



1999. Floral leaves elongated. 



Comparatively dwarf ; leaves linear ; spikelets crowded 

 into an irregular spike or into a cluster, small, almost 

 ellipsoid-ovate, with the staminate flowers at the base of 

 each; floral bracts pointed, usually greenish, occasionally 

 brownish, but towards the margin pale ; fruit-cover ovate, 

 plan-convex, venular-streaked, ciliolated, much con- 

 tracted at the summit ; fruit much compressed, sessile. 



C. in versa. 



Floral leaves almost obliterated 2000 



2000. Bracts blunt 2001 



Bracts pointed ... ... ... 2002 



2001. Spikelets globular-ovate. 



Here alpine only ; stems often comparatively dwarf ; offshoots 

 short ; leaves broadish-linear, flaccid ; spikelets small, from 

 turgid-ovate to ellipsoid, sessile, either somewhat distant 

 or irregularly crowded into a single spike, with the 

 staminate flowers at the base of each ; floral bracts tender, 



Eale, hardly pointed ; rhacheole rudimentary, occasionally 

 ract-bearing, often absent; fruit-cover ovate, faintly 

 streaked, plan-convex, short-pointed ; fruit flattened. 



C. canescens. 



Spikelets narrow-ellipsoid. 



Alpine, comparatively dwarf; leaves broadish-linear ; lowest 

 floral leaf occasionally elongated ; spikelets irregularly 

 crowded into a single spike, the staminate flowers particu- 

 larly developed only at the base of the terminal spikelets ; 

 floral bracts nearly black, ovate, blunt ; fruit-cover much 

 compressed, ovate, simply acute, pale, glabrous. 



C. hypandra. 



