FERNALD. — CARICES OF SECTION HYPARRHENAE. 483 
1861, 750. — Bogs and meadows near the coast, or on the coastal 
plain, locally from LABrapor and NEWFOUNDLAND, to New JERSEY: 
also summit of Smoky Mt., Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; Crystal, 
Marne; Bristol and Peacham, Vermont; Essex and Onondaga Cos., 
New Yorx; Mer Bleue, Onrarto; Calumet, Micnigan; and reported 
from Hennepin and Crow Wing Cos., Minnesota. May—Aug. 
* * Spikelets 2 to several, the staminate meses ‘ites at their bases ; plants 
very rarely dio 
+ Perigynia broadest at the rounded or subcordate base; the beak rough 
or serrulate. 
+ Perigynia .40 to .50 as broad as long, the slender beak conspicuous, often 
nearly as long as the body: scales pointed. 
26. C. ecuinata, Murray. — Figs. 84 to 88.— Culms rather wiry, 
1 to 4 dm. high: leaves shorter than or equalling the culms, 1 to 2.5 
mm. wide: spike linear-cylindric, 1 to 3 cm. long, of 2 to 6 subapproximate 
or slightly remote subglobose or oblong 3- to 12- flowered spikelets : 
perigynia finally yellowish, narrowly ovate, early ascending, later wide- 
spreading, faintly nerved or nerveless on the inner face, 3 to 4 mm. 
long, one-third or one-half exceeding the ovate pointed brownish scale. 
— Prodr. 76; Boeckeler, niisasing xxxix. 124; Bailey, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xxii. 142; Mem. Torr. Cl. i. 57, & Bull. Torr. Cl. xx. 424; 
Macoun, 1. ec. 126; Richter, Pl. ibs i. 150; Holm, 1. c. 212. C. 
muricata, Huds. Fl. Ang. 406 (1778); Leers, Fl. Herb. 200, t. 14. 
fig. 8; not L. ©. Leersii, Willd. Prodr. 28. ©. stellulata, Gooden. 
Trans. Linn. Soe. ii. 144; Schkuhr, Riedgr. 45, t. C, fig. 14; Host, 
Gram. i. 41, t. 53; Schwein. & Torr. 1. c. 317; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
Vili. 9, t. 214, fig. 560; Carey in Gray, Man 544; Boott, Ill. i. 55. 
Vignea stellulata, Reich, Fl. Exc. 57. C. sterilis, Gray, Man. ed. 5, 
578 ; Bailey, Bull. Torr. Cl. xx. 4243; Britton, l. c. 350, fig. 844; 
owe, 1. c. 38; not Willd. — Open low ground, Laprapor and 
Uneava to ALasKa, south to Garrett Co., MaryLanp, Ouro, Micnt- 
GAN, SASKATCHEWAN, and Humboldt Co., Catirornia: also in 
Europe and Asta. June-Aug. Extremely variable, passing by num- 
erous transitions to the following more marked extremes. 
Var. ormantha. — Fig. 89. — Spikes 2 to 6 em. long, of 2 to 4 
very remote 3- to 9- = saintaben spikelets, the terminal one with a clavate 
base 0.5 to 1 em. long: perigynia as in the species, spreading or slightly 
ascending, mostly twice as long as the scales. — C. echinata, W. Boott, 
in Wats. Bot. Cal. ii. 237, in part. — Ruope Istanp, Providence, 1846 
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