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C. strauiinea — '* a slender woods form '* — Bailey, Herb, dis- 



trib. (1886). 

 Culm slender, often very thin, the leaves lax ; head open and 



slender, from three-fourths inch to two inches long, mostly in- 



clined or somewhat drooping, the axis often weak or zigzag? 



spikes small, often scattered (sometimes a half inch apart); perigy- 

 nium small and comparatively narrow, often long-pointed. This 

 weak plant is the Carex straminea originally described and fig- 

 ured by Schkuhr. In the second part of his Riedgraser, five 

 years later, he figured the stout and stiff plant which commonly 

 has been regarded as the type of the species. This plant is 



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s. 



C. straminea, Schk., Riedgr. Nachtr. 23 f, 174 (1806). 



C, straminea, var. Schkuhrii, Gay, Ann. Sci. Nat. (II.) x. 363 



(1838), V. s. 



festtieacea, Tuckm.^ Enum. M 



Boott, 111., 1200, t. 386 (1862). 

 straminea typica, and vars. Crazvei ?indi Meadii, Boott, 111. 



121 tt. 1%J, 388, 389 (1862), V. s. 

 fa^nea, var. /? Boott, 111. 118, t. 376(1862). 

 fwnea, var ? ferncginea, Gray, Man. 5th ed. 580 (1867). 

 straminea, vars. hyalina and typica. Gray 1. c. 



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V. s. 



Culm stiff, longer than the erect and long-pointed stiff leaves ; 

 head usually short and erect ; spikes three to eight, globose or 

 ovoid, usually contiguous, large ; perigynium broad. The old 

 C. festneacea, Willd., although bearing a long and open head, be- 

 longs here rather than to the type on accountof its stiff habit and 

 large spikes. 



Var. HYALINA5 Boott, 111. iii. p. iv. (1862). 



C, hyalina, Boott, Journ. Boston Nat Hist. Soc. v. 112 



(1845), V. s. Hb. Boott; 111. t 371, f 2 (1862.) 



Note. — C. straminea, var. festucacea^ Gay, Ann. Sci. Nat. (II). x. 363 (1S3S), 

 V. s. Hb. Kew., is foanded upon two plants, C. strammm var. ntirahilis, Tuckm., 

 ^XiA C, fanea^ Willd. (C, adusia of authors.) 



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C, straminea, var. inL-rmedia, Gay, 1. c. v. s. Hb. Kew., is also mixed, part 

 beini; C straminea, var, brevior, Dewey, and part C. silicea Obiey, 





