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7. C. Deweyana Schw., var. sparsiflora.—C. Bolanderi var. 
sparsifiora Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 1872, 407 (Hall’s no. 580). 
—The most reduced form of C. Deweyana: plant laxer in 
habit than the type: leaves narrower: spikes smaller: peri- 
gynium twice smaller, more or less excurved. This is com- 
nescens, with which it 
“8. C. aretata Boott, var. Faxonii—Spikes shorter than in 
the species, usually short-peduncled, erect or nearly so, much ~ 
more densely flowered, part of them usually contiguous at the | 
top of the culm, rendering the shorter staminate spike incon- 
spicuous : perigynium usually much larger.—Sugar Hill, Lis- 
bon, N. H., Hdwin Faxon, 1887; extreme northern Minne- 
sota, Bailey, 1886; northwestern Ontario at Nipigon, Ma- 
coun, 1884, and Michipicoton, Geo. Barnston, 1800. 
s Carex arctata is often confounded with C. debilis, at 5 
may be well at this place to state the essential points In 
which it differs from C. debilis: Radical leaves broader and 
“9 C. rosea. Schkuhr, var.? Arkansana. Differs from the spe- 
cies in its mostly stouter culm, the spikes much largerand more _ 
growing beneath underbrush where heavy timber mele 
cut, Dr. H. E. Hasse. This plant suggests C. Muhlenbergu 
Var. australis. 
bet o 
V10. Carex salina Wahl., var.? robusta. Taller and coarser 
than the species (2 to 3 feet high), the culm spongy si | 
