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Rance: Washington to California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Klickitat Meadows, Flett 1357, 1365; without locality, Vasey in 
1889; Falcon Valley, Suksdorf 816, 1284. 
75. Carex pyrenaica Wahl. Kongl. Vet. Akad. Handl. 24: 139. 1803. 
Tyre Locaity: ‘ Hab. in Pyrenaeis.”’ 
Rance: Alaska to Colorado and California... Asia. Europe. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Olympic Mountains, /left 825; Elmer 2722; Mount Rainier, 
Piper 2540; Allen 171; Mount Adams, Suksdorf 28. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Arctic. 
76. Carex raynoldsii Dew. Am. Journ. Sci. I]. 82: 39. 1861. 
Carex lyallii Boott, Il. 150. pl. 483. 1858. 
Type Loca.iry: “Pierre’s Hole, Snake River Valley, alt. 6,000 ft.’ Collected by 
Hayden. 
Rance: Wyoming to Montana, westward to California and British Columbia. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Mount Chapaca, //mer 580; Mount Adams, Henderson, August, 
1892; Wenache Region, Brandegee 1143; Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall (type of C. 
Tyallii); Wenache Mountains, Cotton 1240. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Canadian and ITudsonian. 
77. Carex retrorsa Schwein. Ann. Lyc, N. Y. 1:71. 1824. 
Type Locatity: Massachusetts. 
Rance: British Columbia to Saskatchewan, southward to Washington and Pennsylvania. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Peshastin, Sandberg & Leiberg 592; Loomis, Elmer 616; Waits- 
burg, Horner 29; Clarks Springs, Areager 566; Priest Rapids, Cotton 1379. 
ZONAL pisTRIBUTION: Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran. 
78. Carex richardsoni R. Br. in Richards. Bot. App. Frankl. Journ, 751. 1823. 
Type Locauity: British America “In the wooded country from latitude 54° to 64° 
north.”’ 
Rance: Saskatchewan to New York, South Dakota, and Washington. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Near Waitsburg, Horner 208. 
79. Carex rigida hesperia nom. nov. 
Carex vulgaris bracteosa Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 81. 1886, not (. bracteosa Schwein. 
1824. 
Tyre cocatity: ‘“ Ebbett’s Pass, California, alt. 8,000 feet.” Colleeted by Brewer. 
Rance: Washington to California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Cascade Mountains, Tweedy 19, 24; mountains north of Ellens- 
burg, Brandegee 1142; Mount Rainier, Allen 269; Piper 2533 in part; Mount Adams, 
Suksdorf 16, 17, 36. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Arctic. 
80. Carex rossii Boott in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 222. 1839. 
Carer deflera rossi Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 10: 207. 1885. 
Carex deflera media Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 43. 1889. 
Tyre Locauity: “N.W. Coast, Douglas; Rocky Mountains, Drummond.” 
Rance: British Columbia to Colorado and Oregon. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Clallam County, Elmer 2718; Coupeville, Gardner 343; Mount 
Rainier, Allen 168; Mount Adams, Henderson 2094; Suksdorf 24; Klickitat River, Suks- 
dorf 48; Hangman Creek, Sandberg & Leiberg 30; Kamiak Butte, Piper 3094; Blue 
Mountains, Horner 480; Mount Rainier, Piper 2543, 2552, 2537; west Klickitat County, 
Suksdorf 77; Olympia, Henderson 2093; Wenache Region, Brandegee 1145. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Arctic to Transition. 
It is exceedingly probable that all the Oregon and Washington specimens that have been 
referred to C. varia Muhl. and C. novae-angliae Schwein. are in reality forms of C. rossi. 
