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FLORA OF MOUNT DESERT. 
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Bot. Club, xvi. 219. Freijuent. High Head; Browns Mt,; 
Youngs District, etc. (Rand) ; —Breakneck road (Eedfield). 
Var. vicina, Dewey. 
“ Looser and taller than the type, with many of the peduncles 
elongated and becoming true culms.” Bailey, 1. e. More com¬ 
mon than the type. Sargent Mt.; clearings, near Sunken 
Heath ; Intervale Brook valley ; Beech Mt. Kotoh, etc. 
(Rand); — Somesville; Sargent Mt.; Beech Cliff (R. & R.). 
Forms intermediate between this .and the type are not in¬ 
frequent. ^ 
:hoi5es, Muhl. H Ib-ULK CdJ> 
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C. polytrichoides, Muhl. 
Low ground, and damp grassy places.; common.' 
C. stipata, Muhl. k 
and variable. ^ 
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Very common, 
C. tenella, Schk. 
Damp places ; infrequent. Sargent Mt.; woods on Town 4^ . ■ 
Hill road, Somesville (Rand). 7h^ iA'ICaJ. ti,, 
C. exilis, Dewey. ^ 
Swamps and pond borders; frequent. Breakneck Ponds (E. S , 
&E.); — Somes Pond (E. Faxon) ; — Sunken Heath (Rand). 
Perigynia much infested by a smut. 
C. a t o riK a t^^ midr- C. echmata, Murray/:iJvarT--7?tw»‘eiiac4ys, 
Boeckl. Gray, Man., 6th ed., 618. 
Short, stiff, and erect (usually not much exceeding 1° in . 
height), the old leaves often persistent; head tawnjr or greenish- ' 
yellow, short, composed of from three to five small loosish con- ^ 
tiguous spikes, of which the uppermost is usually conspicuously ^ 
attenuated at the base by the presence of staniinate flowers,— ’ 
sometimes the terminal spike, or even the whole head, is entirely 
staminate; perigynium thin and flat, conspicuously contracted ' ■ 
into a slender beak,— which is nearly or quite as long as the 
body and spreading so as to give the spike an echinate appear¬ 
ance,— sharp-edged and rough on the upper margins, variously 
nerved and very sharply toothed. L. H. Bailey, Bull. _Torr., 
Bot. Club, XX. 424. Common in bogs and meadows. Head of 
