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bent, bracts and leaves narrow, and the color dull green throu^jh- 



out, tall and slender, (i to 2 ft). Europe, In America, repre- 

 sented by 



Var. RECTEROSTRATA, Bailey, Bot^ Gaz." xiii. 84 (1888). 



Staminate spike sessile or nearly so, pistillate spikes three to 

 four, of which the two or three uppermost are sessile and contig- 

 uous or approximate, the lowest being somewhat remote and 

 more or less ped uncled, spikes looser- flowered then in var. elatior^ 

 perigynium shorter then in the species and straight or nearly so, 

 bracts long and spreading, but narrow, the lowest sheathing, 



leaves narrow, whole plant green, tall. Vancouver Island, Ma- 

 coitn. 



Var. CEderi, Liljeblad, Svensk. Fl. ist ed. (1792). 

 C. divisa, CEder, Fl. Dan. fasc. vii. 4, t. 371 (1768). 

 C. ffi^ifr/, Ehrh.* Calam. Exsicc. No. 79 (1790?); Willd. 

 Mem. Acad. Roy, 1794, 44, t. I, f. 2; Schkuhr, Riedgr. 



tj, t Ff. 26 (1801). 

 C. pat2ila, Host, Gram. Austr. i. 48, t. 64, f. i and C. CEderi, 



Host, 1. c. 49, t. 65, f. I. v. t. 

 C. CEderi, Eng, Bot, t 1773 (1801), v. t. 

 Cflava, wdit, Jiavescens, Wahl. Act Holm. xxiv. 150 (1803). 

 C. flava, var. Willd. Sp. PL iv. 269 (1805). 

 Cflava, ft, Schkuhr, Riedgr. Nacht 56 (1806). 

 C. flava, var. Iutesce7is, Wahl Fl. Lapp. 234 (181 2), v. s. Hb. 



Wahl. 

 C. Jlava, var. CEderi, Schlecht. Fl. BeroL 477 (1823), and 



many authors since. 

 C. CEderi, vars. csdocarpa, elatior and pygmcBa Anderss. Cyp. 



Scand. 25 (1849). 

 C. flava, forma depressa, F. Schultz, Herb. Norm. Exsicc. 



cent X, No. 955 bis. v. s. 

 C. Eti- flava, van lepidocarpa, Syme, Eng. Bot ed. iii. x. 



159, t 1673 (1870), V. t 

 C, flava, vars. pitniila and zjttermedia, Coss. et Germ. FL 



Paris, Ed. 1, 



^Ehrhart cites Retz as authority for the species, but Retz declares that his 

 plant is not the plant of Ehrhart (Kongl. Vet. Acad. Ilandl. xiv. 314, Stock- 

 holm, 1793). See also Lilj. Svensk., and Schk. Riedgr. 



