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114 Fae 
42. Ce livida (Wahl,) Willde Rootstocks very slender, elongated, culms 
10-50 cm, tall, smooth, brownish toward the bases leaf=blades pale green, ' 
shorter than the culms or longer, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide; staminate spikes 
solitary, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, sessile or on a short stalk, slender; pistillate 
spikes one or two, subsessile or shortly stalked, 1-2.5 cm, long, 5 mm, wide; 
bracts commonly as long as or longer than the inflorescences; scales ovate, 
brownish or green in the middle, the margins thin and hyaline; perigynia 
about 3.5 mm, long, acute at both ends, plump, pale glaucous-green, the 
veins hardly apparent, very slightly or not at all beaked3; achenes triangular; 
stigmas Se 
To be expected in subalpine sphagnum bogse 
C. californica Bailey, Culms 20=45 om, tall, sharply triangular, reddishe> =/ 
purple at the base; leaves flat with revolute margins, 1.5=5 m. wide; 
staminate spikes 1.5-5,5 cme long on peduncles as long or longer; pistillate 
spikes 2-4, brown, erect, separated by intervals of several centimeters, 
stalked, but much excelled by the leaflike subtending bracts, 1-3 cme. long, 
3-5 Ime wide; scales ovate, obtuse, shorter than the perigynia, purplishe> =| 
brown with a lighter midveins perigynia 3,5=4 THe long, membranous, yellowishe> = 
green, ovoid, plump, faintly nerved, abruptly and shortly beaked, the beak 
less than 1 mm, longe— Closely related to the lasts ridge east of Pole Mte, 
6000 fte, He Re Flint, 
45~— Ce ablata Bailey. Rootstocks stout, elongated, the culms erect, slender, 
much exceeding the leaves, smooth and softs; spikes usually about 5, the upper 
.¢lustered, shortly stalked or sessile, the lower remote, and elevated on 
slender stalks as long as 10 cme, ascending; terminal Spikes staminate or nearly 
so, subsessile, 10-12 mm, long, 2.5-3 mm, wide, the lateral spikes mostly 
pistillate, subcylindrical, 12-15 mm, long, about 6-8 mm, thick; lowermost 
bracts much shorter than the inflorescence, sheathing the culm for 1-3 CMe$ 
scales 2,0-5 mm, long, brown, thin, lanceolate, 4 mme long, tinged with brown, 
rounded at the base, tapering into a beak 1-1.5 mm, long which is minutely 
2=toothed at the apex. 
Fish Lake, 6000 ft.s Stevens Pk, 
