704 CYPERACE | CAREX 
pistillate spikes 1-3, narrowly oblong, 2-6 lines long, 1 line thick, nodding, 
10-12-flowered: perigynia oblong, 3-angled light green, the slender beak 
about 44 as long as the body, longer than the oval, scarious margined scale. 
Idaho to Alaska, Greenland and the Atlantic States: also Europe and Asia. 
C. cinnamomea Olney Proc. Am. Acad. vii, 396. Stems slender, 1-2 
feet high, erect: leaves narrow-margined, shorter] than the stem: bracts 
sheathing, longer or shorter than the stem: spikes 3-5, erect, 12-18 inches 
long, cinnamon colored, the terminal one staminate, fusiform and long pe- 
duncled, the others pistillate, cylindrical, densely flowered, the upper ap- 
proximate, the lower on long exserted peduncles, attenuate and loosely flow- 
ered at base, the lowest remote: scales cinnamon colored with green centre, 
membranous, ovate, obtuse, ciliate at the apex: perigynia elliptical, 3 angled, | 
green, rostellate with bidentate orifice ciliate within, glabrous, longer and 
broader than the scale. In marshes, southern Oregon and California. 
TRIBE v SprrostacHy# Drejer Symb. Car. 10. Staminate 
spikes usually solitary, pistillate spikes 2-5, short yellowish or 
fuscous, compactly flowered. Perigynia smooth or minutely gran- 
ulate, rarely somewhat serrate on the margins, prominently 
nerved, squarrose, mostly beaked, the orifice entire. Stigmas 3. 
C. viridula Mich. Fl. ii, 170. Glabrous and bright green: Stems 
slender, erect, 4-15 inches high: leaves a line or less wide, often longer than 
the stem: bracts similar, strictly erect and much exceeding the spikes, ses- 
sile, sometimes pistillate at the top: pistillate spikes 2-5, all approximate and 
sessile or the lowest distant and Diane penituohed: oblong, 2-6 lines long, 2 
lines or less thick: perigynia ovoid-oblong, a line or less long, narrowed at 
base, tapering into a 2-toothed beak about half as long as the body, longer 
than the ovate scale. Jn wet places, Washington to Alaska, New Foundland 
and Pennsylvania. 
TRIBE vi DactryLostachy® Drejer Symb. Car. 10. Bracts 
sheathing, the sheaths often conspicuous and colored. Staminate 
spike mostly one: pistillate spikes short, commonly rather loosely 
flowered and slender, their scales mostly whitish, often small. 
§ 1 LaxtrLoraE Kunth Enum. PI. ii, 452. Slender, more or 
less broad-leaved species with mostly leafy bracts, green sheaths 
and loosly flowered spikes. Perigynia mostly conspicuously 3- 
angled, with a more or less curved beak. 
C. Hendersoni Bailey Proc. Am. Acad. xxii, 115. Slenderand rather 
weak,1—2i¢ feet high: leaves thick and flaccid, 4-8 lines wide, shorter thn 
the stem: bracts with sheaths 1-%. inches long: spikes 4-5, pale, the 
pistillate approximate, on short peduncles, loosely flowered: perigynia 2-3 
lines long, gradually contracted at eachend, longer than the firm hyaline- 
margined ovate obtuse often mucronate scale. In forests and - thickets, 
Washington to California. 
§.2 Panaicem Tuckerman Enum. Meth. 15. Mostly. stouter 
narrow-leaved species. Perigynia often strongly nerved, not con- 
spicuously trigonous, often turgid 
C. livida Willd. Sp. Pl. iv, 285. Pale green and very glaucous: 
Stems slender, strictly erect, smooth, 12-18 inches high: leaves 1-2 lines 
wide, shorter than or equalling the stem: bracts narrow, usually short; 
staminate spike solitary, short-peduncled: pistillate spikes 1-3, 5-12 lines 
