86 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
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remotioribus, fructibus margine sublavibus ’’—and Boott says 
that it differs from the species only in the small spikes and 
the smooth perigynium. Boott Knew it only as a Lapla 
plant. Moreover, the very few ‘specimens to which | ha 
had access differ from the species only in the points desi 
» Var. vulgaris._Var. g@/ tcola Bailey in part, Proc. A 
Acad. xxii, 143; distrib. Carices, 1886.—Differs from th 
‘Species in its more slender culm and laxer habit, its sm 
spikes, and usually smaller and spreading perigynia. | 
~. -Variety bears the same relation to C. canescens that va 
: oC. echinata. Typical C. canescens 
. 
Var. alpicola W 
Ae Pers. Syn. ii, 539; C. Richardii Michxs. Fl. 
a f 
ahl. Fl. Lapp. 232.—-C. curta, var- ie 
-1, 1703; C. vititis ics, Mant. iii bbe oS edened ie 
- 3933 C. canescens var. spherostachya Tuc a 
Enum. Meth. 10,19; C. Buckley’ Dew. Sill. Journ. rst ser. x1viir 
1433 C. spherostachya Dew. 1. c. xlix, 44; C. canescens val 
wlilis Carey, Gray's Man., 2d ed., 514; C. canescens val 
brunnescens Boott, Ill., 220; C. vitilis var. brunnea Olney 
ot. King’s €p-, 364; C. witthis vars. alpicola and spher 
ostachya Olney, Exsice fasc. v. nos. 3 and 4.—Smaller Nee 
the species (seldom much over a foot high), the culm stiff 
the alpine forms 
tawn Varies from the short, stiff and brown alpyy 
forms—ihe typical var alpicola—into various lax aug E 
forms of intermedi 
mediate regions along the no 
borders of the United States. s 
