FERNALD. — CARICES OF SECTION HYPARRHENAE. 493 
1.5 to 5.5 em. long, of 2 to 6 ovoid or broad-oblong spikelets ; the lower 
5 to 12 mm. long, the terminal, including the clavate sterile base, 7 to 
18 cm. long: perigynia pale, faintly nerved, 2.5 to 3.3 mm. long, 1.6 to 
2 mm. broad, conie-rostrate, usually abruptly contracted to a substipitate 
base, about equalled by the yellowish brown orbicular to ovate blunt scales. 
— Willd. ex. Schkuhr, Riedgr. 50, t. S, no. 66, & Spec. iv. 227 ; Wahlenb. 
Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 146, & FI. Lapp. 283, t. 15, fig. 3; 
Anders. Cyp. Scand. 61, t. 4, fig. 29; Goodale in Holmes, Prelim. 
Rep. Nat. Hist. & Geol. Me. (1861), 128, & Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. 
Hist. i. 135; Gray, Man. ed. 8, Addend. xevii: Boott, 1. c. iv. 214; 
Fl. Dan. Suppl. 13, t. 103; Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 145; 
Maconn, 1. c. 125; Britton, 1. ¢. 351, fig. 849 (as to habital sketch). — 
Brackish marshes, northern ScanpinaviA. Damp usually brackish 
soil, coast of southern LaBrapor: Anticosti Island, and Kamouraska, 
Saguenay, Rimouski, and Gaspé Cos., QueBEc : locally southward along 
the coast in New Brunswick at Shediac, Westmoreland Co., and 
Back Bay, Charlotte Co. (J. Brittain, herb. Geol. Surv. Can. nos. 
30,421 & 30,420); Whale Cove, Grand Manan and Fryes Island 
(Hay) : Nova Scotia, Baddeck, Cape Breton and Truro (J. Macoun, 
herb. Geol. pat Can. nos. 20,846 & 30,422); Boylston (C. A. Ham- 
tlton, herb. . Surv. Can. no. 25,521): Maine, Little Cranberry 
Isle PR: ei (Blake): reported from Alaska.’ June—Aug. 
== Spikelets approximate at the tip of the culm, the lowest 2.5 to 4 mm. 
a. Plant weak and lax, with filiform or involute leaves. 
39. C. GrarEosa, Wahlenb. — Figs. 137, 188. — Culms acutely 
angled, mostly curved, scabrous at tip, 1 to 8 dm. high, once and a half 
or twice exceeding the flaccid narrow (0.5 to 1.6 mm. broad) leaves: 
spike oblong to obovoid, 0.7 to 2 em. long, with 2 to 4 appressed- 
ascending obovoid spikelets; the lower 4 to 9 mm. long, 3 or 4 mm. thick, 
the terminal larger, including the slender sterile base, 6 to 12 mm. long: 
perigynia pale, elliptic or ovate, acute at base, with narrowly conic beak, 
faintly nerved or nerveless, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, 1.1 to 1.9 mm. broad, 
nearly or quite equalled by the ferrugineous white-edged ovate acutish 
scales, — Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. xxiv, 146, & Fl. Lapp. 230; Willd. 
1 Prof. Conway MacMillan has courteously forwarded me the Minnesota speci- 
mens referred to C. norvegica by Mr. E. P. Sheldon (Bull. Torr. Cl. xx. 284, & Minn. 
Bot. Studies, i. 224), and they prove to be C. interior, Bailey. 
