706 CYPERACEZ# CAREX 
1-14¢ lines wide; shorter than the stem; lower bract leaf-like, 6-12 -lines 
long: staminate spikes usually short-peduncled, about an inch long: pistillate ; 
spikes 1-8, short-oblong, few-flowered: perigynia white or light colored, ob- 
ovate, tipped with a rather stout 2-toothed beak, hairy, shorter than the brown 
scarious-margined acute or mucronate scale, In pine forests, eastern Wash- 
ington and Oregon, | ¥ 
C. deflexa Hornem. 'Plantel. ed. 3, i, 938.. Very low and much tufted: 
stems 1-6 inches high, setaceous, more or less curved or spreading: leaves 
narrow, nearly equalling or longer than the stems: staminate spike min- 
ute and nearly always invisible in the head; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, 2-5 
flowered, green or green and brown, all aggregated into a small head, the’ 
lowest one always more or less short-peduncled and subtended by a‘leafy — 
bract 4-6 lines long: perigynium very small, much contracted below, 
tipped with a very small flat beak. Alpine prairies eastern Oregon to 
Alaska, Greenland and Vermont. i? BD Sits, 
Var. nedia Bailey Mem. Torr. Bot. Club 1, 73.. Rather stiff, 4-12. ~ 
inches high, in dense tufts, most of the stems somewhat exceeding the ~ 
leaves: staminate spike prominent and erect; 4-5 lines long: pistillate 
spikes 2-3, all scattered, the lowest peduncled:and subtended by a bract 
which surpasses the stem. In the mountains of eastern Oregon to Montana. 
C. umbellata Schk. Reidgr. Nachtr. 75. Closely tufted and matted, 
stoloniferous: stems filiform, 1-6 inches long. erect or reclining: leaves 
4j—1¥ line wide, usually much exceeding the stems: staminate spike, 
solitary, terminal 4-6 lines long commonly. conspicuous: pistillate spikes 
1-8, all filiform -peduncled from the basal sheaths or 1 or 2 of them sessile 
or very nearly so at the base of the staminate, ovoid-oblong, several -flow- 
ered, 2-4 lines long: perigynia oval, finely pubescent, pale, obtusely . 
3-angled, tipped with a subulate 2-toothed beak nearly as long as the hody, 
about as long as the ovate-lanceolate acuminate or short-awned scales. 
Oregon to the eastern states. : re 
C. globosa Boott Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 125. Stoloniferous: stems 
4-16 inches high, very slender, scabrous, clothed at base with reddish 
brown sheaths that break up into thread-like fibres: leaves firm, 1-2 lines 
wide, the lower longer than the stem: lower bracts longer than the spikes: - 
staminate spike 6-12 lines long, a line thick; pistillate spikes oblong, 
loosely 2-9-flowered, 3-6 lines long, 2 lines thick, the upper se&sile and 
close to the staminate, the others remote and pedunculate, scales oblong 
or lanceolate, acute or cuspidate, purple with green midrib and hyaline 
margins: perigynium more or less purple, globose, produced at base, ab- . 
ruptly beaked with a bidentate orifice, hirsute scabrous, broader than 
the scale. Washington to California. 
C. inops Bailey Proc. Am. Acad. xxii, 126. Stems slender, rigid, 
sharply angled, a foot high, from long and erect rootstocks: leaves numer- 
ous, rigid, narrow, long-pointed, about half as long as the stem: spikes 
3-4, all aggregated and sessile at the top of the stem, the lowest subtended 
by asheathlesg bract of about its own length, the terminal spike staminate, 
Braet an inch long, the others half as. long and staminate at the top: per- 
igynia small, elliptic, brown below, very abruptly produced into a white 
straight and deeply cut beak, scabrous below, hairy on the shoulders and 
beak, about as long as the brown-centred broad acute scale. On sandy 
ground among timber on Mount Hood. "0 
Tribe vill PHyLuostacHys Carey Gray’s Man. 1848, 538. . 
Spikes solitary, staminate above; pistillate flowers few, -often 
remote, usually on a more or less zigzag rachis: scales prolonged 
and leaf-like or scabrous. idee. arty i We) 
