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152. Carex lyngbyei Hornem. 

 Lyngbye's Sedge. Fig. 828. 



Carex Ivngbxci Hornem. Fl. Dan. PI. 1888. 1827. 



Caie.v crypt'ocarpa C. A. Meyer, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. 1 : 226. />/. 14. 



1831. 

 Carex scouleri Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 399. 1836. 

 Carex filipendula Drejer Rev. Crit. Carex 46. 1841. 

 Carex maeouitii A. Bennett in Macoun Cat. Canad. PI. 4: 147. 1888. 

 Carex quaHciimeiisis Bailey, Bull. Torrey Club 20: 428. 1893. 



Strongly long stoloniferous, the culms varying from rather 

 slender to very stout. 3-9 dm. high, the lowermost leaves (of first 

 year's growth ) witli very long blades, the lower of the second 

 year's growth with sliorter blades than the upper. Leaf-blades 

 flat, 2-12 mm. wide ; uppermost spike staminate, long-peduncled ; 

 lateral spikes 2-6, the upper 1 or 2 often staminate or androgynous, 

 the lower pistillate, dropping on slender smooth peduncles, densely 

 manv-flowered, linear or oblong, 2-8 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide; 

 bracts leaf-like, the lower exceeding the culm ; scales lanceolate, 

 acuminate, much exceeding perigynia, dark brown with straw- 

 colored keels ; perigynia oblong-oval, biconvex, 2.5-3 mm. long, 

 more or less nerved, straw colored or at length brownish, coriace- 

 ous, puncticulate, rounded and slightly stipitate at base, abruptly 

 minutely beaked, the beak entire; achenes lenticular; stigmas 2. 



Along the coast, Canadian Zone; Humboldt County, California, to the 

 Aleutian Islands; also known from eastern Asia, Greenland, Iceland, and 

 northern Europe. Type locality: Faroe Islands, Europe. 



153. Carex obnupta Bailey 



Slough Sedge. 



Fig. 829. 



Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 220. 



221. 1840 

 1880 

 1891 



not 



Carer sitchensis Boott in Hook. 



not Prescott. ^ ^ i-- „ ,,, 



Carex aquatilis VV. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Calit. 2: 241. 



Wahl 

 Carex obnupta Bailey, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci II. 3: 104. 

 Carex magniftca Dewey; Holm, Am. Journ. Sci. IV. 17. 316. 1904. 



With long stout stolons, the culms 5-15 dm. high, sharply 

 triangular, roughened above. Leaves 5-10 clustered near 

 the base, the blades 5-8 mm. wide, thick, much roughened 

 above- staminate spikes 2-3, linear; pistillate spikes 2--4, 

 oblong to linear-cvlindric, 3-10 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, 

 manv-flowered, the upper sessile or nearly so, the lower 

 more or less stronglv peduncled ; bracts exceeding culms^; 

 scales narrowlv ovate, concealing perigynia, sharp-pointed, 

 blackish; perigvnia 3-3.5 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, cori- 

 aceous, abruptlv minutely beaked, the beak entire or nearly 

 so ; achenes lenticular ; style slender ; stigmas 2. 



In the coastal counties. Transition and Canadian Zoiies; Monterey 

 Bay California, north to Vancouver and Bntish Columbia. Type 

 locality: San Mateo County. California. 



154. Carex yosemitana Bailey. 

 Yosemite Sedge. Fig. 830. 



Carex sartwelliana Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 396. 1868, not C. Sartwellii 



Dewey, 1842. 

 Carex voscmitana Bailey, Mem. Torrey Club 1: 8. 1889. 

 Carex coiigdoni Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 21: 6. 1896. 



Cespitose from stout rootstocks, the culms 3-9 dm. high, sharply 

 triangular, much exceeding the leaves. Foliage softly pubescent, 

 the blades not rigid, flat with revolute margins. 3-7 mm. wide; 

 terminal spike staminate, linear, 12-25 mm. long, more or less 

 peduncled. occasionally with a few perigynia, the scales ciliate ; 

 pistillate spikes 3-4. more or less separate, sessile or slightly 

 peduncled. erect, oblong-cylindric, 12-20 mm. long. 4.5-6 mm. wide, 

 closely flowered with 40-200 appressed perigynia. often staminate 

 at apex ; scales lance-ovate, sharp-pointed, ciliate and pubescent, 

 chestnut-brown with 3-nerved green center and hyaline margins : 

 perigvnia 3-3.5 mm. long. 1.25 mm. wide, obovoid or oblong obovoid, obscurely nerve 

 at ba"se, abruptly short-beaked, the beak 0.5 mm. long, obliquely cut. at length b 

 achenes triangular; style slender, jointed with achene ; stigmas 3. 



Central and southern Sierra Nevada and San Jacinto Mountains of California; Transition 

 locality: Yosemite Valley. 



d, tapering 

 identulate; 



Zone. Type 



