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92, Carex inops Bailey. 



1889. 



Long-stoloned Sedge. Fig. 768. 



Care.Y iiiol^s Bailey. Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 136. 1S86. 

 Carex penns\lva>tica rcsfertiiia Bailey, Mem. Torrey Club 1 : 74. 

 Carex verecuitda Holm, Am. Journ. Sci. IV. 16: 461. 1903. 

 Carex vespertixa Howell, Fl. N. W. Am. 1: 705. 1903. 



Cespitose and strongly stoloniferous, the culms 2-3.5 dm. 

 high, very slender, roughened above, reddened and fibrillose 

 at base. Leaves clustered towards base, the blades 1.5-2.5 mm. 

 wide, very rough above ; staminate spike solitary, 1.5-2.5 cm. 

 long, sessile or short-peduncled, the reddish-brown or 

 purplish-brown scales with conspicuous white-hyaline mar- 

 gins; pistillate spikes 1-3, approximate or more or less 

 separate, erect, sessile or short-peduncled. oblong or short 

 oblong, 7-12 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, with 4-10 ascending 

 perigynia : lowest bract leaflet like, reddish-tinged at base, 

 sheatiiless ; scales ovate, sharp-pointed, chestnut-brown or 

 purplish-brown with conspicuous white hyaline margins ; 

 perigynia 3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, nearly orbicular in cross- 

 section, membranaceous, pubescent, 2-keeled but otherwise 

 nerveless, strongly stipitate, abruptly beaked, the beak 0.75- 

 1.5 mm. long, deeply bidentate, the teeth strongly hyaline in 

 age ; achenes triangular, closely enveloped ; style shoi^t, 

 jointed with achene; stigmas 3, long. 



Dry soil, Transition and Canadian Zones; chiefly in the Cascade 

 Mountains, British Columbia to Siskiyou County, California. Type lo- 

 cality: Mount Hood, Oregon. 



93. Carex globosa Boott. 



Round-fruited Sedge. 



Fig. 769. 



Carex globosa Boott, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1 : 259. 1845. 



Corel' nmbcllata globosa Kiikenth. in Engler Pflanzenreich 4-": 453. 1909. 



Stoloniferous, the rootstocks slender, elongate, the culms 

 1.5-3.5 dm. high, slender, roughened above. Leaf-blades 1.5- 

 2.5 mm. wide, strongly roughened; staminate spike solitary, 

 sessile or short-peduncled, 1-2 cm. long, many-flowered ; pistil- 

 late spikes 2-3 (with additional basal ones on long capillary 

 peduncles), approximate, sessile or short-peduncled, 5-10 mm. 

 long, 4-8 mm. wide, with 4-10 ascending perigynia ; lower 

 bract leaflet-like, shorter than to exceeding inflorescence; 

 scales ovate, obtuse to cuspidate, purplish-tinged ; perigynia 

 5 mm. long, the body globose, 2.25 mm. wide, membranaceous, 

 pubescent, strongly 2-keeled and finely many ribbed, abruptly 

 narrowed to a prominent stipitate base and abruptly beaked, 

 the beak 0.75-1.25 mm. long, strongly bidentate; achenes tri- 

 angular, closely enveloped; style short, jointed with achene; 

 stigmas 3, long. 



Coastal counties of California and the islands off the coast from Santa 

 Cruz Island and San Diego County northward to Sonoma County; Humid 

 Transition Zone. Type locality: California. 



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94. Carex brainerdii Mackenzie. 



Brainerd's Sedge. 



Fig. 770. 



Carex brainerdii Mackenzie, Bull. Torrey Club 40: 534. 1913. 



Rootstocks slender, elongate, the culms from very short to 15 

 cm. high, slender, very rough on the sharp angles. Leaf-blades 

 1.5-3 mm. wide, much roughened; staminate spike solitary, sessile 

 or short-peduncled, 5-8 mm. long, few-flowered; pistillate spikes 

 4-6, 1-4-flowered. the upper 2 or 3 approximate, sessile or short- 

 peduncled. the others basal on erect peduncles: lower bract of 

 upper spikes exceeding inflorescence, chestnut-tinged, more or less 

 strongly sheathing; scales ovate, reddish-brown tinged, cuspidate 

 or long-awned ; perigynia 4.5 mm. long, the body oval, 1.75 mm. 

 wide, inembranaceous, pubescent, strongly 2-keeled and finely many- 

 ribbed, strongly stipitate. abruptly contracted into the serrulate, 

 hyaline-tipped bidentate beak 1 mm. long ; achenes triangular, closely 

 enveloped; style short, jointed with achene; stigmas 3, long. 



In the Sierra Nevada of California from Eldorado County north to Sis- 

 kiyou County: and in southern Oregon; Transition Zone. Type locality: Slip- 

 pery Ford. Eldorado County, California. 



