Field notebooks : Newfoundland, 1927-1937
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487 8-20-30 Scirpus atocintus Fernald V 195 (See BOBI 337. H.P. Rd west of camp. Pedicels flat, spikelets very distinct (to 9 mm.) Involucel & base of involucere black. ish I vs bright green rather soft, 4-6 mm wide, dis- tinctly rough on edges & mid-rib, broadest tip, less so below. Culm terete smooth above upper half but lower vs rough just below infl, 2 mm or a side. Spikelets 5 mm. long. End glum, erect lowest if joint about 5 in. Scales pretumed suffused with black.) 488 8-20-30 Scirpus cyperinus Kuntze var pelica Fernald #195 (putting in spot BOBI 337) Fl. Rd west of camp H.P. none of spikelets pedicelled falling group of 2-3 or perhaps more) Spikelet 3 1/2 mm long (looks much smaller than above). Involucel & involucels as black as in above, and otherwise plant looks much the same. Perhaps a less vivid green, & a little narrower w at tips when flat. Scales brownish suffused black 489 8-20-30 Scirpus Fl. on same road. Habenaria orbiculata. Has just a dense spherical or somewhat irreg ball. Base glumicles black and otherwise perhaps as much like above. Must be S. cyperinus Kuntze var Condensatus Fernald or S. atrocintus Fernald var Brachypodus Fernald V 195 which don't seem clearly distinguished in here. Spikelet about 5 mm. Scales most like above.