Chapter C: STRICTA x SALINA, Bailey. Spikes thinner and more scattered, more

inclined to be peduncled; scales blunt or short-awned, little exceeding the perigynium.--Near Boston, Mass., _W. Boott, Morong_.

[++][++][++] _Stigmas 3._

39. C. prasina, Wahl. Slender, somewhat flexuose, 11/2--21/2 deg. high; culm rather sharp, smooth; leaves very narrow, soft and flat, rough; spikes 2--3, peduncled and spreading or drooping, somewhat approximate, green, 1--2' long, narrow and loosely flowered; perigynium pale, narrowly triangular-ovate, thin, nearly nerveless, produced into a short but slender entire or minutely toothed beak; scale very thin and acute, nearly colorless, shorter than the perigynium. (C. miliacea, _Muhl._)--Meadows and bogs, Vt. to Mich., and southward; infrequent.

[*] 3.--[+] 4. _Cryptocarpae._

40. C. maritima, O. F. Mueller. Mostly stout, 1--21/2 deg. high; culm sharp, smooth or rough above; spikes 2--6, scattered, all or all but the upper one on very long weak stalks and pendulous, 1--3' long and thick and bushy, usually staminate at top; perigynium nearly orbicular, pale, few-nerved or nerveless, the beak very short and entire or nearly so; scale produced into a greenish rough awn 3--8 times as long as the perigynium.--Salt marshes of the coast, Mass., Maine, and northward; not common. Leaves smooth, broad and flat. (Eu.)

41. C. crinita, Lam. Robust and mostly stout, 2--4 deg. high; culm sharp and rough or sometimes smooth; leaves about 3'' broad, flat, more or less rough on the nerves and margins; spikes 3--6, somewhat scattered, all variously peduncled, mostly secund, curved and drooping (or in small forms rarely nearly erect), 1--4' long, narrowly and evenly cylindric, compact or attenuate below, often staminate at top; perigynium ovate, thin and puncticulate, obscurely nerved, the minute point entire; scale greenish-brown and rough-awned, 2--3 times as long as the perigynium. (C. gynandra, _Schwein._)--Swales; common.--Var. MINOR, Boott. Much smaller in all its parts, 10--18' high; leaves narrow; spikes 3--4, 11/2' long or less, less drooping; scales less prominent.--Maine to N. Y.; scarce. Somewhat resembles n. 39.