FERNALD. — CARICES OF SECTION HYPARRHENAE. 473 
Cl. i. 23, & in Gray, 1. c. — Damp or even very dry soil, principally on 
the coastal plain, New Brunswick to FLtoripa, Texas, Mexico, and 
CenTRAL AMERICA; rarely inland to Bear Mt., Livermore, Maine 
(Kate Furbish) ; Mt. Monadnock, alt. 925 m., New Hampsurre (2. 
M. Harper); Taghkanick Range, Columbia Co., New York (L. H. 
Hoysradt) ; also from Lake Huron to Manitopa. July—Sept. 
6. Plant not very stiff: the bright green or brownish spikelets with spreading 
or ascending (not appressed) perigynia. 
1. Leaves 2.5 to 6 mm. wide: culms 0.3 to 1.5 m. high. 
10. C. mrrasitis, Dewey. — Figs. 25, 26.— Culms very loose and 
smooth ; leaves soft and thin, the sheaths rather loose: spikelets 4 to 12, 
greenish, subglobose or ovoid, 5 to 9 mm. long, mostly approximate in an 
oblong spike ; perigynia with divergent tips. —Am. Jour. Sci. xxx. 63, 
t. Bb, fig, 92; Boott, 1. c. 117 (under C. cristata), t. 374; Howe, 1. c. 
46. C. straminea, var. mirabilis, Tuck. 1. c. 9,18; Bailey, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xxii. 150, & in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 621; Britton, 1. c. 358. C. 
festucacea, var. mirabilis, Carey, 1. c. 545. (C. eristata, Kunze, Car. 
t. 44, figs. a, e, and JF (colored), not Schwein. CO. cristata, var. mirabilis, 
Gray, Man. ed. 5, 580. C. lagopodiotdes, var. mirabilis, Olney, Exsice. 
fase. ii, no. 8. °C. tribuloides, var. cristata, Macoun, 1. c. 130, in part, 
not Bailey. — Dry banks, open woods, or even moist copses, central 
Maine to Manrrosa, south to Norra Caroxina and Missourt. 
June, July. 
Var. perlonga. — Fig. 27. — Spikelets scattered in a moniliform spike. 
— New Hampsuire, dry thicket, Barrett Mt., New Ipswich, June 5, 1896 
(Mf. L. Fernald): Vermont, Little Notch, July 9, 1901 (2. Brainerd) : 
Massacuusetts, Stoneham, June 5, 1887 (7. S. Collins) ; Oak Island, 
Revere, July 5, 1891 (W. P. Rich); Beaver Brook Reservation, July 6, 
1894 (C. W. Swan); Sharon, June 17, 1896 (W. P. Rich): Connecti- 
cuT, dry open woods, Southington, June 17, 1900 (C. H. Bissell) : 
New York, Binghamton, June 29, 1871 (Wm. Boott); Sacondago 
River (J. V. Haberer): Mrcutean, Grosse Isle, June 30, 1867 (Wm. 
Boott) ; open swales, Lansing, June 8, 1886 (Z. H. Bailey, no. 283, 
in part): InL1nors, Marion Co. (MZ. S. Bebb). 
Var. tincta. Spike of 3 to 7 ovoid approximate brown-tinged spike- 
lets: scale brown with a pale margin. — New Brunswick, banks of 
St. John River, July 4, 1899 (J. Macoun, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 
22): Marne, Fort Kent, June 16, 1898 (no. 2158), Masardis, June 6, 
1898 (no. 2159), Ashland, June 13, 1898 (no. 2160), Fort Fairfield, 
