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C. Geyeri Boott Linn. Trans. xx. 118. Stems stiff, slender, 6 inches 
to 2 feet high, leafy at base: leaves rigid, 4-1 line wide, carinate, scabrous 
on the margins and keel: staminate flowers 1-6, alternate, appressed to the 
rachis: scales whitish, becoming ferruginous, green in the middle, ciliate, 
in the staminate flowers oblong and obtuse, the pistillate clasping and cus- 
pidate, the lower foliaceous and equalling the stem: perigynia triangular- 
ellipsoida!, tapering to the base, with a very short entire beak and hyaline 
orifice, smooth, 1-nerved on the middle of 2 sides, shorter than the scale. 
On dry ridges, Oregon and Washington to Colorado and Montana. 
C. multicaulis Bailey Bot. Gaz. ix, 117. Stems numerous, 1-3 feet high, 
stiff and wiry, terete or obtusely angled, smooth or minutely scabrous be- 
neath the spike, dark green and remaining so a year after fruiting: leaves 
short and reduced to sheaths: staminate flowers 3-8, their scales oblong or 
lanceolate, green with hyaline margins, appressed; pistillate flowers |-4, 
their scales green with ovate scarious-margined base and long acuminate 
tips, sometimes longer than the spike: perigynium large, green, triangular 
contracted below to a stipitate base, tipped with a short stout beak. On 
dry ridges among pine timber, southern Oregon to California. — 
Tripe 1x LamprocHuan«® Drejer Symb. Car. 10. Small 
mostly boreal species. Spikes mostly solitary. Scales obtuse 
with hyaline margins. Perigynium smooth, firm in texture, or 
or even horny, glossy or shining, brown or black, lightly nerved 
or nerveless, tipped, with a short beak. Stigmas mostly 3. 
C. Pyrenaica Wahl. Acad. Handl. xxiv, 139. Cespitose, the filiform 
stems 4-7 inches high, very leafy at base: leaves 14-1 line broad, flat. or 
often conduplicate: bracts scale-like: spikes dark-brown or purple, ellips- 
oidal, densely-flowered, 5-8 lines long, 2-4 lines thick, staminate above: 
scales membranaceous, deciduous, of the staminate flowers linear-oblong, 
acutish: of the pistillate darker, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, the » 
lowest often cuspidate or subfoliaceous: perigynium membranaceous; lan- 
ceolate or spindle-shaped, gradually attenuate to an acute obliquely cut, 
hyaline-margined orifice, long-stipitate, reflexed at maturity, rather longer 
than the scale. On the high mountains, northern California to Alaska and 
the Rocky Mountains. 
C. nigricans C. A. Meyer Cryp. Nov. t. 7. Stems ratber stout, 4-8 
inches high, very leafy at base: leaves 1-5 lines wide, not half as long as 
the stem, flat, attenuate to a very sharp point: spike very dark brown or 
black, oblong to obovate, 3-6 lines long, staminate at tie top: scales ob- 
long to ovate, acute or acuminate: perigynia broadly lanceolate or oblong, 
abruptly contracted below to a slender stipe, produced above into a slender 
sharply 2-toothed beak, usually longer than the scale, In wet meadows 
on the highest mountains, California to Alaska and the Rocky Mountains. 
-Trrpe x LeptocepHaL@ Bailey Proc. Am. Acad. xxii, 131. 
Spike solitary, staminate above, thinand slender. Perigynia thin 
in texture, green, oblong, lanceolate or linear in outline, beakless 
or nearly so. 
€. leptalea Wahl. Kongl. Vet, Acad. Handl, (11,) xxiv, 139.. Light 
_ green and glabrous: stems filiform, erect or spreading, 6-18 inches long: 
leaves 14 line wide, mostly shorter than the stems: spikes narrowly linear, 
2-7 lines long, less than a line thick: perigynia few, linear-oblong, narrow- 
ed at base, obtuse and beaked at the summit, 144 lines long, longer than 
the attenuate scales. In wet places, California to Alaska and across the 
continent. ; 
TRIBE xI PHysocEPHAL# Bailey |. c. 132. Spikes solitary, 
