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C. Fulvellce, Fries, Summa, 70. Spikes scattered, short and thick, oblong 

 (usually a half-inch or less long), the lowest more or less peduncled ; bracts 

 conspicuously sheathing, usually not very leafy. 



152. Carex Lemmoni, W. Boott, Bot. Gaz. ix. 93. 



C. fulva, Gooden., var. Hornsclmchiana, W. Boott, Bot. Calif, ii. 

 250. 

 Cespitose: culm slender but erect, one to two feet high, smooth, 

 longer than the flat and thin yellowish green rather abruptly pointed 

 leaves : spikes two to five, the terminal staminate and an inch or less 

 long, the others a half-inch long and mostly staminate at the top, with 

 peduncles included, the upper one usually sessile at the base of the 

 staminate spike : lower bracts twice longer than the spikes : peri- 

 gynium small (one and three fourths lines long and three fourths line 

 or less broad), lance-oblong, triangular below, smooth, thin, produced 

 into a slender minutely toothed often rough -margined beak, about 

 equalling or surpassing the straw-colored obtuse thin-margined scale. 

 — California, Sierra Nevada, J. G. Lemmon, Inspiration Rocks, Yo- 

 semite, Bolander 4905, Mariposa Grove, Bolander 4995. G. spissa 

 and jDerhaps C. ultra were once distributed as C. Lemmoni. 



153. Carex fulva, Goodenough, Linn, Trans, ii. 177. 

 G. Greeniana, Dewey, Sill. Journ. xxx. 61. 



Goodenough received the original specimens from " America and 

 Newfoundland." B. D. Greene found it previous to 1836 by a pond 

 at Tewksbury, Mass., where it was probably introduced. It has not 

 been found since. It may be native in Newfoundland. Europe. 



G. Icevigata, Smith, was also found at Tewksbury by B. D. Greene, 

 but it has not been found again. Europe. 



D. Pallescentes, Fries, Summa, 71. Spikes globular or short-oblong, obtuse, 

 sessile or short-peduncled, approximate at the top of the culm ; bracts short, 

 leaf-like, sheathless ; perigynium entire at the orifice, the beak none or very 

 short and stout. 



154. Carex pallescens, Linn. Sp. PI. 977. 

 G. undulata, Kunze, Suppl. Riedgr. 23. 



G. pallescens, var. undulata, Carey, Gray's Man. 1848, 552. 

 Meadows, New England to Pennsylvania and Lake Superior. 

 Europe. 



155. Carex Torreti, Tuckerman, Enum. Meth. 21. 

 C. abhreviata, Boott, Linn. Trans, xx. 141. 



New York, Torrey ; Bethlehem, Penn., Schweinitz ; Clear Creek 

 Canon, near Golden City, Colorado, E. L. Greene; Grand Valley, 



