42 



C. pihdifera, var. dcflexa, Drcj. Rev. Crit. Car. Bor. 54 (1841)- 



C, Nov{B-A7igli(B^ authors in part. 



Very low, much tufted; cuhns from I to 6 inches long, seta- 

 ceous, more or less curved or spreading, little exceeding or 

 shorter than the narrow leaves; staminate spike exceedingly mi- 

 nute and nearly always invisible in the head; pistillate spikes two 

 or three, two to five flowered, green or green-and-brown, all ag- 

 gregated into a little head, the lowest one always more or less 

 short-peduncled and subtended by a leafy bract a half inch or 

 less long; radical spikes very few or none; perigynium very 

 small, much contracted below, sparsely hairy or nearly smooth, 

 the flat beak exceedingly short. Rocks and woods, Greenland, 

 southward to the high mountains of New Hampshire and Ver- 

 mont, and westward to Alaska, and E. Oregon, Cusicky and the 

 Wenatchie region of Washington, Brandegce^ ^145- A neat little 

 alpine Carex. Its particular distinguishing marks are the lower 

 leafy bract and the peduncled lowest spike, although this pedun- 

 cle is often so short as to be concealed by the bract. Excellent 

 characters are also found in the staminate spike and in the dispo- 

 sition of the pistillate spikes. It is the boreal representative oi 

 C. varia, Muhl. ((T. Emmo7isii, Dew). Like most alpine spe- 

 cies, it runs into many forms in intermediate localities, but the 

 material is now sufficient to warrant the following positive dispo- 

 sition : 



•^ Var. DeANEL 



C, varia, var. nmior, Boott, Hook. Fl. Bor. -Am. ii. 223 



(1840), in part. 

 C, Novce-Anglt(E, authors, in part; Boott, 111. t 285 (i860). 



Taller and laxer, the culms from 6 to 12 inches hi^h and 

 some or all prominently exceeding the long and loose soft 

 leaves ; staminate spike much larger ( 2 to 3 lines long), 

 erect or oblique, strictly sessile ; pistillate spikes larger (four- to 



eight-flowered), less aggregated or the lowest usually separated, 



though rarely more than i^ inch removed ; radical spikes usually J 



numerous; bract mostly longer. Swales or dryish places, sub- 

 alpine regions of New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and 

 northward, and Mt. Desert, Me. In aspect like C, varia, Muhl. 

 iC. Emmonsii^ Dew). Named for Walter Deane, of Cambridge, 



Mass 



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