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522. C. striata, v. brev. 



523. C. oligosperma. 



than the perigynia. — In sandy soils, from s. Me. to e. N. Y., and D. C. ; "south 

 to Ga." May-July. Fig. 521. Var. Kennedyi Fernald. Staminate spike 

 about 1 cm. long, hidden by the pistillate. — Wilmington, 

 Mass. (Kennedy). 



155. C. striata Michx., var. brevis Bailey. Stiff, 3-8 

 dm. high, extensively creeping ; culm sharply angled, smooth 

 or slightly rough above, mostly exceeding the leaves ; leaves 

 narrow and stiff, becoming involute; spikes 1-2, mostly 

 closely sessile, considerably separated when two, short 

 (1-0 cm. long) and rather thick, erect; perigynia broad- 

 ovoid with impressed nei'ves. smooth, ascending, shorL- 

 beaked and very short-toothed ; scales thin, obtuse or 



acutish, mostly about I as long as 

 the perigj'nia. (C Walteriana, var. 

 Bailey.) — Pine-barren swamps, s. e. 

 Mass., south w., local. June-Aug. 

 Fig. 522. 



156. C. oligosperma Michx. 

 Very slender, but stiff, 2.5-9 dm. 

 high ; culms solitary or few from a 

 slender sioloniferous base; leaves 

 and bracts very narroio, becoming 

 involute; staminate spike pedun- 

 cled ; pistillate spikes 1 or 2, rarely 

 3, sessile or the lowest very short- 

 peduncled, globular or short-oblong 

 (0.7-2 cm. long) feio-floioered ; peri- 

 gjaiia turgid, shining, gradually 

 contracted into a very short and minutely toothed beak, 

 prominently few-nerved, yellowish, nearly twice longer 

 than the blunt scales. — Bogs and wet shores, Lab and Nfd. to the 

 Mackenzie, s. to Pa., and the Great Lake region. Jime-Aug. 

 Fig. 523. 



157. C. HiRTA L. Variable in size (2-6 dm. high), widely creep- 

 ing ; culm rather slender but erect, obtuse and smooth or slightly 

 rough above ; leaves soft and flat, generally sparsely hairy and 

 the sheaths very hirsute, rarely smooth ; spikes 2-3, distant, more 



or less shortly peduncled, erect or nearly so, 

 1.5-4 cm, long, rather loose; perigynia long- 

 ovoid, nerved, soft-hairy, the prominent beak 

 slender-toothed ; scales thin and green-nerved, 

 awned, mostly a little shorter. — Groves, fields, 

 and made-lands, e. Mass. to centr. N. Y. and 

 Pa. ; local. June-Aug. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 Fig. 524. 



158. C. trichocarpa Muhl. Stout and tall, 

 0.6-1.2 m. high ; cidm sharply angled, rough 

 above ; leaves numerous, flat, 3-6 mm. wide, 

 very rotigh, but not hairy, much exceeding the 

 culm ; spikes 2-5, scattered, the lower stalked 

 and more or less spreading, 3-8 cm. long, 

 1-1.5 cm. thick, heavy, but loosely flowered 

 I j ^^^ tl( at base ; perigynia ovoid, many-costate, sparsely 



9j ^^ short-hairy, about twice as long as the mem- 



branaceous, acute or acuminate scales. — 

 Marshes, s. w. Vt. to Ont., s. to Pa. and 111 

 525. Var. tuhbinXta Dewey. Spikes 2-2.5 cm. long, 1.3-1.8 

 cm. thick ; i)erigynia lance-subulate. — Dutchess Co., N. Y. 



Var. Deweyi Baih-y. Leaves narrower, often becoming somewhat invdlute, 

 smoother ; spikes short, 1.5-5 em. long, all but the lowest one sessile ; perigynia 



525. C. trichocarpa. 

 June-Aug. Fig, 



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