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_ membranaceous, mostly somewhat inflate 
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‘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, intoa 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 Frerrvcinem Tuckerman Enum. Meth. 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. | (i 
C. frigida All. Fl. Ped. 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: 
erigynia triangular, lanceolate, tapering to a beak, bifid at the orifice, 
ispidon the margins longer than the ovate accuminate mucronate scale. 
In wet prairies on the high mountains, Washington to California and Utah. 
C. luzulefolia W.Boott. Bot. Cal. ii, 250. Stems 2-3 feet high, obtusely 
angled, smooth 1 or2‘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- 
~ Jar point, much shorter than the stem bracts tapering to a short sharp point, 
shorter than the peduncles: spikes 3-6, the upper 1-3 staminate, clavate or 
obovoid, 3-6 lines long, 1-3 lines thick, often crowded so closely;as to ap- 
pear asa 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 PenpuLIn& Fries Corp. 190. Bracts sheathless: perigyn- 
ium whitish, more or less 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 44 to 2 inches long: staminate spike solitary on a long pe— 
dunele: pistillate spikes 1 or 2 on filiform peduncles, drooping, oblong 5-10 
lines long about 8 lines thick: perigynia pale. oval, narrowed atboth ends14 
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 HyMENocHLAN#@ Drejer Symb. Car. 10. Staminate 
spikes several or many, mostly loosely flowered and on filiform 
nodding peduncles. Perigynia mostly light green or whitish, thin- 
commonly smooth 
and shining, tapering gradually into a minutely 2~tosthed beak. 
‘C, capillaris L. Sp. 977. Stems slender or filiform, smooth, or 
roughish above, erect, 2-14 inches high: leaves 44-1 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 jone staminate; 
