FERNALD. — CARICES OF SECTION HYPARRHENAE. 489 
most swamps or on wet shores from NEWFOUNDLAND to MICHIGAN, 
Onto and Pennsyitvanta. The following numbered specimens belong 
here— Prince Epwarp Istanp, Brackley Point (J. Macoun, hb. 
Geol. Surv. Can. no. 30,509): New Brunswick, Serpentine River 
(Hay, no. 84); Chipman (Wetmore, hb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 30,507) : 
Nova Scotia, Boylston (C. A. Hamilton, hb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 
25,443); Baddeck (no. 20,805), Sable Island (nos. 22,076 & 23,071), 
Truro (no. 30,506) —/. Macoun, hb. Geol. Surv. Can.: Massacnu- 
SETTS: Framingham (#. C. Smith, no. 628): Connecticut, South- 
ington (L. Andrews, no. 590): Ontario, Cache Lake (J. Macoun, hb. 
Geol. Surv. Can., no. 22,036). 
= = Green, not glaucous: spikelets subglobose to short-oblong, few-flowered: the 
loosely spreading dark green or brown perigynia serrulate at the base of 
the distinct beak, 
32. C. BRUNNESCENS, Poir. — Figs. 121 to 124. — Very slender and 
lax: culms 1.5 to 7 dm. high: leaves soft, flat, 1 to 2.5 mm. wide, 
shorter than or equalling the culms: spike 1 to 6 em. long, of 3 to 6 
more or less remote or approximate spikelets 3 to 7 mm. long: perigynia 
2 to 2.7 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. broad, with distinct slender beaks, 
loosely spreading when mature.—Suppl. iii. 286; Britton, 1. c. 351, 
g. 848. C. curta, var. brunnescens, Pers. Syn. ii. 539. C. canescens, 
var. alpicola, Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp. 232; Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 
143, & in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 618; Macoun, 1. c. 124; Howe, 1. c. 87. 
C. Gebhardii, Hoppe Car. Germ. 30. Vignea Gebhardi, Reichb. FI. 
Exe. 58. (. canescens, 8, Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. iii. 393. C. Per- 
soonit, Lange, Flora, xxv. (1842), 748; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 7, 
t. 206, fig. 547. ©. canescens, var. sphaerostachya, Tuck. Enum. 
Meth. 10, 19; Carey in Gray, Man. 544. C. vitilis, Fries, Mant. iii. 
137; Anders. Cyp. Scand. 58, t. 4, fig. 88; Boott, Il. iv. 219; Fl. Dan. 
xvii. t. 2973. C. Buckleyi, Dewey, Am. Jour. Sci. xlviii. 143, t. Dd, 
fig. 104. (©. sphaerostachya, Dewey, 1. c. xlix. 44, t. Ee, fig. 110. 
C. canescens, var. vitilis, Carey in Gray, Man. ed. 2, 514. O. canescens, 
var. brunnescens, Boott, 1. c. 220 (nomen nudum); Bailey. Mem. Torr. 
Cl. v. 74. C. canescens, var. vulgaris, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. xiii. 86, 
Mem. Torr. Cl. i. 66, v. 74, & in Gray, Man, ed. 6, 618; Macoun, 1. c. 
123; Howe, 1. c. 37. ©. brunnescens, var. gracilior, Britton, 1. c. 
350.— Open woods and dry, rocky banks, NewrounpLanp and Lasra- 
DOR to British CotumstA, south to IpaHo, MicniGaN, and mostly in 
the mountains to Norra Carouina. Also in GREENLAND and northern 
