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488. C. lax., 

 v. latifolia. 



and aggregated about the inconspicuous staminate 

 spike, the lowest usually long-exserted. (Var. stri- 

 atula Carey.) Vt. and e. Mass, to Ont., and southw. 

 FIG. 487. 



Var. latifblia Boott. Rather low, 2-6 dm. high ; 

 culms winged; leaves 1.5-4 cm. broad; staminate 

 spike sessile or very nearly so, hidden by the pistil- 

 late; pistillate, spikes cylindric and loose, 1.5-8 cm. 

 long, the upper one or two contiguous ; bracts very 

 broad. (C. albursina Sheldon.) Deep rich woods, 



kw. Que. and Vt. to Ont., and southw. FIG. 488. 

 Var. Iepton6rvia Fer- 

 A / nald. Slender, 1.5-7 dm. 



( sfi ft t\ ni s h ; leaves - 5 ~ 1 cm - 

 \f sli 1 I I broad ; Pistillate spikes 

 \ *4 * if i I If linear-cylindric, loosely 



Mfell/ flowered, 1-2.5 cm. long, 



the 2 or 3 upper crowded 

 at the base of the staminate, the lower 

 remote ; perigynia oblong-fusiform, 

 faintly nerved or nerveless. Nfd. to 

 Ont., s. to n. N. E., N. Y., and Mich. ; 

 and in the mts. to N. C. FIG. 489. 



128. C. Hitchcockiana Dewey. 

 Erect, 3-7 dm. high ; leaves 3-7 mm. broad 

 2-4, all more or less peduncled, very loosely ~ few- 



B^MSJ |W I flowered, erect, 1-2.5 cm. long, the bracts elongate 

 If 1] ' and leafy ; perigynia triangular-ovoid, many-striate, 

 J 4-5 mm. long, the strong beak prominently oblique, 



C. Hitch- 8horter than the scales. Rich woods, Vt. to Ont., 

 ; Lt na< s - to Ky. and Mo. May-July. FIG. 490. 



129. C. oligocarpa Schkuhr. Diffuse, 1-5 dm. high ; leaves 

 2-4.5 mm. wide ; bracts elongate, spreading ; staminate spike sessile or stalked ; 

 pistillate spikes 2-4, scattered, stalked or the uppermost sessile, loosely 2-8- 

 floicered, erect, 0.5-1.5 cm. long ; perigynia 3.5-4 mm. long, 

 hard, finely impressed-nerved, abruptly contracted into a con- 

 spicuous mostly oblique beak, the orifice entire ; scales very 

 loosely spreading, longer than the perigynia. Dry woods and 

 copses, Vt. to Ont., la., and southw. May-July. FIG. 491. 



130. C. katahdingnsis Fernald. Densely 

 caespitose ; leaves 1-2.5 dm. long, 3-4 mm. 

 broad, with the similar bracts much (2-6 

 times') overtopping the low (1-6 cm. high} 

 rough-angled culms ; pistillate spikes 3 or 4 , 

 approximate, or the lowest remote, short- 

 pediceled, 8-14 mm. long, 5-W-flow.ere d ; 

 staminate spike 5-8 mm. long, generally 

 hidden among the pistillate ; perigynia ellip- 

 soid, 3-4 mm. long, many-nerved, beakless, 

 mostly exceeding the whitish green-awned 

 scales. Gravelly shore of a pond, Mt. 

 Katahdin, Me. ; rocky bank, Lake St. John, 



491. C. oligocarpa. Que. (Brainerd). July, Aug. FIG. 492. m c kata hdinensi,s 



131. C. conoidea Schkuhr. Slender but 



strict, 1.5-7 dm. high ; staminate spike long -peduncled or rarely nearly sessile ; 

 pistillate spikes 2-3, scattered, short-stalked or the upper one sessile (the 

 lowest frequently very long-stalked), narrowly ellipsoid, 0.7-2. 5 cm. long, rather 

 closely flowered, erect ; perigynia oblong-conical, 3-4 mm. long, impressed- 

 nerved, gradually narrowed to a point, the orifice entire ; scales loosely spread- 

 ing and rough-awned, equaling or exceeding the perigynia. Moist grassy 



