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V Van MEDIA. 



C. Novi£-Angli(£, var. deflcxa^ Bailey, Proc. Ainer. Acad. 



Arts and Sci. xxii. 124 (1886). 



Rather stiff, 4 to 12 inches high, in dense tufts ; most, of the 

 cuhns somewhat exceeding the leaves ; staminate spike promi- 

 nent and erect, 3 to 5 lines long, sessile or very short-pe- 

 duncled; pistilate spikes two or three, all scattered, the upper- 

 most at or near the base of the staminate spike, the lowest usually 

 very prominently peduncled and subtended by a conspicuous 

 bract which surpasses the culm, all rather compactly three- to 

 eight- flowered, green or brown-and-green ; radical spikes usually 



abundant; perigynium much as in short-beaked forms of C. 

 iimhellata\ scales large and sharp, equalling or exceeding the 



perigynium. Mountains, Montana and Colorado to Oregon. 



In aspect much like tall forms of C. 7unbcllata, Schk. 



' Var. Rossii. 



C. Rossii, Boott. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 222 (1840). 



C. Novm- Anglian ^ var. Rossii, Bailey, Bot, Gaz. x. 207 



(188s). 



Stiff throughout, very strict, the leaves mostly equalling or 

 exceeding the culms, the whole plant usually light colored; 

 staminate spike much as in the last, often larger ; pistillate spikes 

 one to three, distinct or sometimes scattered, loosely one- to 

 four-flowered ; radical spikes usually abundant; scales very 



sharp, greenish-white or very rarely bearing an inconspicuous 



colored margin. Mountains, Colorado to British Columbia. 



/ V'ar. BoOTTIT. 



C. brevipes, W. Boott, Bot. Calif ii. 246 (1880), in part at 



least. 



C. globosa^ var. brevipes^ W. Boott, 1. c. 485. 



Low and more or less diffuse (6 inches or less in height), some 

 at least of the culms somewhaf exceeding the leaves, w^hich are 

 broader and flatter than in any other form of the species ; stami- 

 nate spike short and sessile or nearly so ; pistillate spikes one or 

 two, contiguous, large and compact (four- to twelve-flowered), 



the lowest subtended by a very broad bract wdiich mostly much 

 surpasses the culm; radical spikes abundant; scales broadly 



purple-margined. Mountains, California, 



