FERNALD, — CARICES OF SECTION HYPARRHENAE. 491 
QursEc to ATHABASCA and British Contumsia, south to PENNSYL- 
vania, Micuican, New Mexico, and Wasuineton.! May-Aug. 
* * ee entirely smooth at the tip (exceptional forms of C. canescens might 
be ed for here ; and very rare individuals of C tenuiflora might be sought 
in s preceding section). 
+ Perigynia oblong or ovate-oblong. 
++ Perigynia 3 to 4 mm. long, nerved: culms weak, almost Peg sk 
spikelets 2 to 4, loose, silvery-green or silvery-bro 
= Spikelets closely y Sanborn: in a small wired bractless terminal 
ster: perigynia beakles 
35. C. TenurrLorA, Wahlenb. — Figs. 129, 130.— Lax, the culms 
2 to 6 dm. long, mostly exceeding the very narrow (0.7 to 2 mm. broad) 
pale green leaves: spikelets subglobose, 3- to 10-flowered : perigynia 3 to 
3.4 mm. long, 1.5 to 1.7 mm. broad, with the bluntish scarcely beaked 
tip smooth or rarely with one or two teeth, about equalled by the ovate 
or ovate-oblong white scale. — Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 147, 
Anders. Cyp. Scand. 59, t. 4, fig. 36; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 914; 
Torr. 1. c. 892, 443; Carey, 1. c. 543; Boott, Ill. iv. 144, t. 463; Fl. 
Dan, Suppl. 13, t. 167; Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 145; Macoun, 
l. c. 122; Britton, 1. c. 352, fig. 851 (as to habital drawing) ; Howe, 
1. c.— Cold bogs among the mountains, ScanpinaviA. Bogs and wet 
mossy woods, local, from eastern UNGAVA to western KrrwarIn and 
Manitosa; south to Westmoreland and Victoria Cos., New Bruns- 
WICK; southern Aroostook, Penobscot and Oxford Cos., Marne; Hamp- 
shire Co., Massacuusetts; Oneida Co., New York; Ingham Co., 
Micuiean ; Milwaukee Co., Wisconstn; Chisago and cress Cos., 
Minwisce. : also on Elbow River, ALBERTA, and near Victoria, 
Britisnh Cotumpia (Macoun, hb. Geol. Surv. Can. nos. 25,571 & 
30,517). 
1 The California material which has been referred here is C. Bolanderi, Olney, 
differing in its less shared angled cule, jonger spikes of more approximate usually 
more numerous lance ered spikelets, the ge with or without 
a short bract. ‘The northwestern C. Pilasdes: var. sparsiflora, Olney (C. He A 
var. sparsiflora, Bailey) is a vragen a probably C. eae Meinshausen, 
Acta Hort. Petrop. xviii. 326, ts small short-beaked strongly fey finally 
spreading thin-edged perigynia ek nearer eevee to the eastern C. seorsa than 
to the members of the Elongatae. 
