. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 46T. 46S. C. rariflora. SO and exceeding the culm; spikes 2-3, approximate, all slen- derly stalked, spreading or drooping, 4-8 mm. long; perigynia orbicular or broad-ovate, nerved in the middle, J-| the length of the castaneous scales. — Alpine bogs, e. Que. Aug. Var. irrigua (Wahlenb.) Fernald. Taller, 1-8 dm. high; culm glabrous; spikes cyliudric, cm. long; scales cas- taneous. (C. magellanica Man. ed. 6, not Lam.)—Bogs, Arct
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 46T. 46S. C. rariflora. SO and exceeding the culm; spikes 2-3, approximate, all slen- derly stalked, spreading or drooping, 4-8 mm. long; perigynia orbicular or broad-ovate, nerved in the middle, J-| the length of the castaneous scales. — Alpine bogs, e. Que. Aug. Var. irrigua (Wahlenb.) Fernald. Taller, 1-8 dm. high; culm glabrous; spikes cyliudric, cm. long; scales cas- taneous. (C. magellanica Man. ed. 6, not Lam.)—Bogs, Arctic regions, s. to Mass., Pa., Ont., and Utah. June-Aug. (Eu.) Fig. 466. Var. pdllens Fernald. Tall, the culms usually scabrous ; spikes cylindrio, cm. long; scales green with pale brown or yellowish margins. — Bogs and mossy woods, e. Que. to B. C, s. to Ct., N. Y., Mich., and Minn. June, July. 112. C. limbsa L. Slender but rather stiff, dm. high, very stoloniferous; culm sharp, rough above ; spikes 1-2, nodding on short stalks or the upper one erect, suboylindric, cm. long, springing from the axil of a very narrow bract which is nearly always shorter than the culm; perigynia very short-pointed, about the length of the broad brown or purplish scales. —Bogs, e. Que. to Sask. and B. C, s. to Pa., Great Jjake region. Col., and Oal. May-Aug. (Eu.) Fig. 467. 113. C. rarifldra Smith. Very small but stiff, dm. high, slightly stoloniferous ;. CM?m obtuse and very smooth ; spikes 1-3, only 3-10-flowered, drooping, borne in the axil of a minute awl-like and purple-auricled bract; perigynia ovate, nearly pointless, obscurely nerved, mostly a little shorter than the purple-black enveloping scales. — Cold bogs and granitic slopes, Arctic regions ; very locally s. to Gulf of St. Lawrence ; Table-topped Mf., Gasp6 Co., Que.; and Mt. Katahdin, Me. (Goodale). (Eu.) Fig. 408. 114. C. littor^lis Sohwein. Somewhat slender but erect, 4-9 dm. high, stoloniferous ;
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