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GG. C. Sartwelliana, Olney, 1. c. 39G. Stem 2 or 3 foet hi-li, -laucous and 

 the wliolo plant pubescent, the sheaths densely so : bracts without sheaths, the lower 

 exceeding the stem, or the lowest sometimes sheathed, remote and sterile : spikes 5 

 or G (rarely 4 or 8), chestnut-colored, cylin<lrical and erect, densely llowered, the 

 terminal one male (or partially female), the rest feniale (or the n])per one male at 

 top), approximate and sessile, snbsquarrose, 1 to If inches long and 2 or 2i lines 

 thick : perigynium chestnut-colored, obovoid, triquetrous, abruptly beaked wfth an 

 obliquely cut entire orifice, pubescent or densely tomentose, broader and longer or 

 shorter than the chestnut-colored and green-nerved ciliate and j)ubesc,ent cuspidate- 

 lanceolate or ovate scale : nutlet conformed to the perigynium, triquetrous with the 

 angles ribbed. 



In tlie Yospniite Valley (Bracer, n. lG3(i ; Bolandrr, w. 6221) ; allied to C. scabrata, Schwein., 

 and i'. ainpli/olia, Boott. 



++ ++ Beak bidentate. 

 = Feriffi/nium smooth. 



G7. C. Cinnamomea, Olney, 1. c. Stem 1| to 2 feet long, erect, with short 

 and narrow scabrous leaves, the rudimentary ones dark purple : bracts sheathing, 

 longer or shorter than the stem, the inner sides of the sheaths ferruginous and sca- 

 brous : spikes 3 to 5, erect, 1 to H inches long, the terminal one male, cinnamon- 

 colored, fusiform and long-peduncled, the rest female (the upper rarely male at top), 

 cylindrical, densely flowered, the upper approximate, the lower on long-exserted 

 peduncles, attenuate and loosely flowered at base, the lowest remote : scales cinna- 

 mon-colored, green in the middle, membranous, ovate, obtuse, ciliate at top : peri- 

 gynium elliptical, 3-angle(l, green, rostellate with the bidentate orifice ciliate within, 

 glabrous, nerved, longer and broader than the scale : nutlet obovate, 3-anglcd. 



In swamps on tlic H<mI Mountains, Mnidociiio ("oiuity, Buhnidry, n. G477. I5i'lonf:;in^ to tlie 

 Dchika f^vonp, and ajtrcoing witli the eastern C. Sn/Ucnnlii, 15oott, in its erect fertile spikes, and 

 with C. ijfdhrii, Hoott, in its sliarply 2-toothed ])roininently nerved and smooth perigynium. 



G8. C. Mendocinensis, Olney, ined. Stem very slender, rather obtusely 

 angled, smooth : leaves 2 to 2^ lines broad, flat, the upper about equalling the stem: 

 bracts clasping and .sheathed, the lowest and often the next above exceeding the 

 stem, the uppermost shorter than its spike ; sheaths 2 or 3 inches long : spikes 3 

 or 4, chestnut-colored, linear, erect, 1 to 1^ inches long, the male single, the female 

 loosely flowered, the uppermost sessile, close to the male and often of equal height, 

 the rest approximate or the lowest ^ to 2 inches distant on a capillary mostly en- 

 closed peduncle; scales membranous, chestnut-colored with scabrous green keel and 

 scarious ciliate margins, the male oblong-obovate, obtuse or short-cuspidate, the 

 female oblong or ovate, acute or cuspidate, 1 - 3-nerved : perigynium triangular- 

 ellipsoidal, rostrate, with bidentate beak and the obtuse hyaline teeth ciliate, smooth, 

 nerved, a little longer than the scale : nutlet triangular-obovoid. 



In swamps near Mendocino City, Bolandcr, n. 4701. Named by Mr. Olney, but without de- 

 scription. 



69. C, luzulina, Oluey, 1. c. 395. IJootstock creeping : stem 7 to 1 2 inches high, 

 leafy at ])ase, obtusely angled, smooth : leaves short, 2 to 4 inches long and 3 lines 

 wide, smooth, flat, tlie lower recurved : bracts shorter than the stem ; sheaths | to I 

 inch long • spikes 4 or 5, rarely G, dark ferruginous, the upper contiguous, short- 

 oblong and densely flowered, sessile, the terminal one male, the lower female bracted 

 and long-sheathed, the lowest sometimes remote and long-peduncled ; scales ovate, 

 obtuse, chestnut-colored with y)ale green miduerves, ciliate : perigynium oblong-oval 

 or ovate, with bihd serrate beak, glabrous, obsoletely nerved, shorter than the scale: 

 nutlet obovate. 



In spliajjnous swamiis near ^lendocino City, Bolandcr, n. 1740. Allied to C. pracor, Jacq., of 

 Europe and western Asia. 



