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the marshy alkaline soil in the vicinity of springs, where it seldom occurs in abund- 

 ance, hut, in tho last locality mentioned above, small areas of the open marsh are 

 covered with it to the exclusion of all other large plants. 



Carex 1 ablata Bailey, Bot. Gaz. xiii. 82 (1888). Type locality not given. 

 In a natural meadow near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (Nob. 1426, 1437). 



Carex amplifolia Boott in Hook. PI. Bor. Amer. ii. 228 (1839). Type locality, 

 "Columbia River." 

 In the valley of Kaweah River (No. 1354). 



Carex atrata L. Sp. PL ii. 976 (1753). Typo locality European. 

 Above timber line on Mount Whitney (No. 2073). [The nearest approach to the 

 true variety nigra of the Alps which I have seen in this country.— L. H. B.] 



Carex aurea Nutt. Gen. ii. 205 (1818). Type locality "on the shores of Lake 

 Michigan." 



Near Mineral King (No. 1429). 



Carex breweri Boott, 111. Gen. Carex, iv. 142(1867). Type locality, "California, 

 on Mount Shasta, 7,000-10,000 ft., in dry volcanic soil." 

 Above timber-lino near Whitney Meadows (No. 1669). 



Carex canescens dubia Bailey, Bot. Gaz. ix. 119 (1884). Type locality, "Bear 

 River Canon, Utah." 



Near Mineral King (No. 1506). [Rare. Bear River Canon, Utah; Wasatch Moun- 

 tains, Utah; Blue Mouutains, eastern Oregon.— I,. H. B.] 



Carex deweyana bolanderi (Olney) Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. 393 (1868), as C. 

 boJanderi; W. Boott, Bot. Cal. ii. 236 (1880). Type locality, "California, Yosemite 

 Valley and Mariposa Big-tree Grove." 



Valley of Kaweah River (No. 1344). 



Carex festiva Dewey, Amer. Journ. Sci. xxix. 246 (1836). Typo locality, "at 

 Bear Lake and on the Rocky Mountains." Collected by Richardson. 

 Mineral King (No. 1405) and Whitney Meadows (No. 1615). 



Carex festiva stricta Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, i. 51 (1889). Type localities, " Cal- 

 ifornia" and "Buck Creek, Oregon." 



Near Mineral King (No. 1500). [This is a well-marked but very puzzling Carex, 

 standing midway between C. festiva and C. atraminea. — L. H. B.] 



Carex filifolia Nutt. Gen. ii. 204 (1818). Type locality, "on the dry plains and 

 gravelly hills of the Missouri." 

 Near Mineral King (No. 1505). 



Carex filiformis latifolia Boeck. Linmea, xli. 309 (1877). Type locality, 

 "America septentr[ionali]." 

 Near Mineral King (No. 1438). 



Carex incurva Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. 544 (1777). Type locality European. 



Above timber-line on a mountain slope near Mount Whitney (No. 2067). [Rare 

 in America This and Carex atrata are the only really boreal or alpine Carices in 

 the collection. — l. h. B.] 



Carex jonesii Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, i. 16 (1889). Typo locality, " Soda Springs, 

 Nevada County, Cal., 7,000 feet." 

 Near Mineral King (No. 1428). 



1 The specimens of the genus Carex have been identified by Professor L. H. Bailey. 



