480 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
13 mm. long: perigynia 4 to 4.8 mm. long, 2 to 2.3 mm. broad. — Bot. 
Gaz. xvii. 151; Britton, 1. c. 355, fig. 859. — Open prairies, western 
Manitosa and adjacent Assinipora. July. 
b. Obovoid spikelets brownish or ferrugineous: the loosely ascending perigynia 
dark green or brown’ when mature. 
1. Spike loose and flexuous ; spikelets mostly long-clavate at base, the lowest 
remote : achene 1.5 (1.3 to 1.7) mm. broad. 
21. C. aenea. — Figs. 63 to 66.— Culms smooth and wiry, but more. 
or less flexcuous at tip, 0.25 to 1.2 m. high: leaves much shorter, rather 
soft and flat, 2 to 4mm. broad: spike loosely cylindric or moniliform, 
of 3 to 12 spikelets 0.8 to 2.5 em. long (in luxuriant plants often 
peduncled or compound): perigynium 4 to 5 mm. long, 1.9 to 2.7 mm. 
broad. — C. adusta, Boott, 1. ¢. iii. 119, in part, t. 880, not Boott in 
Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 215. ©. albolutescens, var. sparsiflora, Olney, 
fasc. v. no. 11, in part (as nomen nudum), not C. sparsiflora Fries. ¢. 
adusta, var. sparsiflora, Bailey, Carex Cat. 2 (as nomen nudum) ? 0. 
foenea, var. perplexa, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Cl. i. 27, as to syn., in part. 
C. foenea, var. sparsiflora, Howe, 1. ce. 44.— Open woods, dry banks, 
or rarely in low ground. Lasravor, without station, Aug. 23, 1896 
(Spreadborough, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 13,354): Uneava, East 
Main R., 1892 (A. H. D. Ross, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 30,582) : 
Newrounpianp, Grand Lake, Bay of Islands, Aug. 6, 1897 (A. C. 
Waghorne): QureBec, Riviére du Loup, July 23, 1861 (Wm. Boott), 
Aug. 2, 1896 (#. Brainerd): Calumet, June, 1891. (J. M. Macoun, 
Hb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 16,535): New Brunswick, Kent Co. 
(J. Fowler, in Olney, Exsice, fasc. v. no. 11, in part): Marve, Fort 
Fairfield, 1881 (Kate Furbish); Milford, June 30, 1864 (J. Blake) ; 
Orono, July 7, 1892, July 3, 1897, June 8, 1901 (I L. Fernald); 
Mt. Desert Island, numerous stations (Rand, Faxon, Williams et al.) 
New Hampsuire, Franconia, June 23, 1888 (Z. & OC. #. Faxon) + 
Crawford Notch, July 16, 1895 (G. G. Kennedy): Vermont, East 
Mt., Middlebury, June 23, 1882, Moosalamoo Mt., Salisbury, July 9 
1901 (£. Brainerd) ; Massacnvsetts, Mt. Wachusett, June 27, 1878 
(Wm. Boott): New Yorx, base of Stony Creek Mt., June 29, 1899 
(Rowlee, Wiegand & Hastings): ONTARIO, near Michipicoten, July 26, 
1869, Cache Lake, July 12, 14, 1900 (J. Macoun); Lake Victor, 
Sept. 12, 1901 (H. Brainerd): Mronreay, Isle Royale (ZH. Gillman): 
_ ArTwasasoa, Methy Portage (Sir John Richardson, fide Boott, Ill. t 
380): Avserta, Banff, Rocky Mts., July 10, 1891 (J. Macoun, Herb. 
