FERNALD. — CARICES OF SECTION HYPARRHENAE. 485 
em. long; the 3 to 6 subglobose or oblong-cylindric densely 15- to 50- 
flowered olive-green spikelets crowded or distinct: the thick strongly many- 
nerved perigynia broad-ovate, 3 to 3.5 mm. long, squarrose or with 
recurved tips. —Sp. iv. 208; Schkuhr, Riedgr. Nacht. 3, t. Mmm, fig. 
146. © stellulata, var. eae Carey in Gray, Man.544, 0. siellulata, 
var, conferta, Chapman, Fl. 534. (©. echinata, var. ast Rn 
Carex Cat. 2, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 143, Mem. Torr. Cl. 8, & in 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 618; Macoun, |. c. 126. ©. atlantica; Eating Bull. 
Torr. Cl. xx. 425; Britton, 1. c. 350.— Bogs and damp pine-barrens, 
near the coast fica NEWFOUNDLAND to FLoripa, rarely inland on 
cold bogs, at Lake St. John, QueBec (G. G. Kennedy); Squapan, 
Aroostook Co., and northern flank (near Bell Camp) of Mt. Katahdin, 
Maine (Fernald); Adirondack Mts., Essex Co., New York (Knies- 
kern) ; and Mt. Sorrow, Valley Forge, Pennsyivania (CO. H. Smith). 
June, July. 
== Low: leaves 0.5 to 2 (very rarely 2.5) mm. broad: scales blunt. 
28. C. mnrerror, Bailey. — Figs. 101 to 105.— Slender, 1.5 to 5 
dm. high; the leaves 1 to 2 (rarely 2.5) mm. broad, shorter than or 
exceeding the rather stiff culms: spike 1 or 2 cm. long ; the 2 to 5 spike- 
lets all fertile, all sterile, or variously mixed, usually subglobose, 4 or 5 
mm. in diameter, the terminal long-clavate at base, 5- to 15-flowered: 
perigynia firm, plump, olive-green or -brown, more or less nerved or 
almost nerveless, broadly deltoid-ovate, obscurely short-beaked and with 
slightly thickened margin, 2.3 to 3.2 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. broad, 
finally wide-spreading or recurved, much exceeding the oblong or ovate 
blunt scales. — Bull. Torr. Cl. xx. 426; Britton, 1. ¢. fig. 846; Howe, 1. c. 
39. C. scirpotides, Schkuhr, Riedgr. Nacht. 19, t. Zzz, fig. 180; Willd. 
Sp. iv. 237; Schwein. & Torr. 1. c. 817; Dewey, Am. Jour. Sci. viii. 
96; not ©. seirpoidea, Michx. C. stellulata y, Torr. 1. c. 392. C. 
stellulata, var. scirpina, Tuck. Enum. Meth., 9, not C. seirpina, Tuck. 
lc. 8. C. stellulata, var. scirpoides, Carey in Gray, Man. 544; Boott, 
Ill. i, 56, t. 146.** ©. echinata, Boeckeler, Linnaea, xxxix. 124, in part, 
not Murray. (©. norvegica, E. P. Sheldon, Bull. Torr. Cl. xx. 284, & 
Minn. Bot. Studies, i. 224, not Wahl. In damp or wet soil, New Bruns- 
Wick to Rupert Lanp and VANCOUVER IsLAND, south to FLoripa 
and Arizona. Commonest northward and in the interior. May—Jaly. 
Var. CAPILLACEA, Bailey. Stiff, culms almost setaceous ; leaves about 
0.5 mm. broad, often involute: perigynia strongly nerved. — Bull. Torr, 
Cl. xx. 426; Howe, l..c.; Britton, 1. c. 351.— New HAmpsuire to 
New Yorx, New Jersey, and PeNnnsyLVANIA. 
