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140 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
CAREX TENELLA, Schk.—Hall & Harbour, 601. 
CAREX CANESCENS, L.—Hall & Harbour, 602. 
CAREX DEWEYANA, Schw.—Hall & Harbour, 596. 
CAREX GAYANA, Dew. Boott, Ill., pt. 3, p. 126, t. 411." Spike (some- 
times wholly pistillate) er capitate fuscous- ferrugineot 18; spikelets 
staminate at the apex or wholly staminate or pistillate, many closely 
crowded, lower ones shapennd: feo setaceous shorter than the spike; 
stigmas 2: perigynia somew hat rounded, with a short conie one orifice 
very sin mall, hyaline, deeply cleft before, scabrous on the margins above, 
shining, spong , chestnut- colored ; scale ovate, acuminate, cuspidate, 
brown-ferruginous, with a whitish oh apex broader and longer rs 
the female nium.—Hall & Harbour 
CAREX STELLULATA, L., var. Seater Carey.— Wet Mountain 
Valley, Brandegee. 
CAREX BONPLANDIT, Kunth. Spikes of 8-12 blackish- bo orrusty 
spikelets, more or less bracted, staminate at base; stigmas 2; perigynium 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, gradually ee toa beak, the “orifice entire 
and deeply nk in front, wingless vow! oe less serrate 0 n the margins 
e apex, nerved, plano- sy mider ifs ing the ovate B ladbatshen scale; 
achenium abilig: ovate, contracted at aly Sh ena x and apiculate. 
Jar. MINOR, B, Olney. Spikelets small, fewer; bracts scale-like. —Hall 
& Harbour, 
CAREX L LEPORINA ,L. Fl. Suec. Root woody-fibrous, spike oblong, 
tawny-brown, composed of 5-6 (rarely more) nearly round or obovate 
spikelets, staminate at base, alternatel tiguous, sometimes aggre- 
gated into an elliptical head, the highest club-shaped ; bracts sometimes 
filiform, not equal to t lets ; stigmas 2; pe ovate, gradu 
rigynium ov 
ly tapering to a beak from an ovate base, the fees obliquely cut, 
winged, and serrated upon the margins above the middle, nerved upon 
both sides, tawny, quite equaling the ovate-lanceolate acute scale, 
which is whitish-hyaline with tawny margins; achenium oblong, lenticu- 
pooh spe shine: chestnut-colored, = Sane yon - base of the 
CAR Dek Crespit = pikes ovate or usaie 3 
nake " a # bractuate, composed ot 6-12 fionity round androgynous apie 
lets, staminate at base, closely aggregatedinto a head; stigmas 2; perigy- 
nium Ad econ entire tapering to a beak, the whitish-hyaline orifice ob- 
liquely ¢ cut anteriorly and finally bidentate, slightly nerved on both 
sides, winged, serrated on the margins above the middle rusty-tawny, 
a little exceeding or about equaling the lanceolate obtuse whitish- hya- 
line rusty-margined scale; achenium oblong-obovate, arene apie 
rusty-colored.— Hall & Harbo bas 589 and 590. Ute orter. Whit 
House Mountain and Mount Lincoln, at 12,000 fect siaie Co alah 
Breckenridge, Brindages Gray's Peak, Dr. Sm ith. Pike’s Peak, Canby. 
CAREX STENOPHYLLA, Wahl. Creepitose, 4’-6' high, stoloniferous 
from the base; spikes androgynous, staminate above, aggregated in av 
ovate or oblong head; stigmas 2; PG Saar Abe convex on the back, 
9-11-nerved, serrulate- scabrous on the ; be ak white-membran- 
aceous at the apex, emarginate on the hadi call acute; culm smooth, 
somewhat scabrous oat —Hall & Harbour, 597. 
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“ X ATHROSTA CHYA, Olney. Root fibrous 3 ; culm 1°-2° high, 
leaty; spike ovate, ee ae rusty-tinged, composed of 8-20 
crowded spikelets, the lowest som metim mes forming a remote distinet 
head; b 
racts 3-5, leafy, sevcincee ae expanded at base into a hyaline 
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