CAREX CYPERACE/E 703 



inate spikes 2-3, prominently peduncled; pistillate spikes about 4, 2-4 inches 

 long, cernuous or somewhat bent, the upper 2 on peduncles 6-12 lines long, 

 and usually staminate above, the lowest very long -peduncled: perigynia nar- 

 rowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, conspicuously granulate when mature, pro- 

 duced into a slender and entire beak, shorter than the linear-lanceolate muti- 

 cose dull brown scale. In swamps along the coast, from the mouth of the 

 Columbia river to Alaska. 



5 FERRUGINE^; Tuckerman Enum. Metb. 12. Plants smal- 

 ler : spikes small, an inch or less long, the upper ones often and- 

 rogynous: perigynium tapering into a conspicuous point, often 

 rough on the angles, dark-colored : bracts conspicuously sheath- 

 ing: stigmas usually 3. 



C. frigida All. Fl. Fed. ii, 270. Steins 8-20 inches high, leafy at base: 

 leaves shorter than the stem: spikes 4-8, rusty-black, oblong, the terminal 

 one staminate, the others pistillate, the upper contiguous and sessile, the 

 lower remote and exserted on a long peduncle: bracts shorter than the stem: 

 perigynia triangular, lanceolate, tapering to a beak, bifid at the orifice, 

 hispid on the margins longer than the ovate accuminate mucronate scale. 

 In wet prairies on the high mountains , Washington to California and Utah. 



C. luzulae folia W. Boott. Bot. Cat. ii, 250. Stems 2-3 feet high, obtusely 

 angled, smooth 1 or 2 leaved at Or below the middle, many-leaved at base: 

 leaves 4-10 inches long, 2-4 lines wide, acuminate to a sharp rough irregu- 

 lar point, much shorter than the stem bracts tapering to a short sharp point, 

 shorter than the peduncles: spikes 3-6, the upper 1-3 etaminate, clavate or 

 obovoid, 3-6 lines long, 1-3 lines thick, often crowded so closely [as to ap- 

 pear as a single one, the others pistillate, clavate, 6-14 lines long, 2 lines 

 thick, the upper often sessile at the base of the staminate, the others all re- 

 mote on exserted scabrous peduncles 2-6 inches long: scales purple or pale 

 in the middle, oblong to. lanceolate, ciliate obtuse or acute or roughly cus- 

 pidate: perigynia tawny or purple, oval to lanceolate, acuminate to along cy- 

 lindrical bidentate beak, stipitate, smooth, longer and broader than the scale. 

 In the high mountains', California to southern Oregon. 



6 PENDULIN^: Fries Corp. 190. Bracts sheathless: perigyn- 

 ium whitish, nldre'or leys granulated, nearly pointless. 



C. limosa L. Sp. 977. Stems slender, rough above, erect, 10 inches to 2 

 feet high: leaves a line wide, or, less,, shorter than the stem: bracts linear- 

 filiform the lower % to 2 inches long: stamihate spike solitary on a long pe- 

 duncle: pistillate spikes 1 or 2 on filiform peduncles, drooping, oblong 5-10 

 lines long about 3 lines thick: perigynia pale. oval, narrowed atbotb endsl> 

 lines long, tipped with a minute entire beak, about as long as the oval green 

 or purplish-brown acute or cuspidate scale. In bogs, Idaho to New Jersey 

 and the Atlantic regions: also in Europe. 



TRIBE iv HYMENOCHL^N^E Drejer Symb. Car. 10. Staminate 

 spikes several or many, mostly loosely flowered and on filiform 

 nodding peduncles Perigynia mostly light green or whitish, thin- 

 membranaceous, mostly somewhat inflated, commonly smooth 

 and shining, tapering gradually into a minutely 2-toothed beak. 



C, capillaris L. Pp. 977. Stems slenderer filiform, smooth, or 

 roughish above, erect, 2-14 inches high: leaves /--! line wide, much shorter 

 than the stem, flat or somewhat involute in drying, roughish: bracts all with 

 sheathing base: spikes all on filiform peduncles, the terminal one staminate; 



