1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 119 



21. Carex specifica Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 1, p. 21. 



1889. 



C. scoparia Sehk., var. fulva W. Boott, in Watsu, Bot. Calif., vol. 2, p. 237. 

 1880. 



Type locality. — "California, Silver Valley, head of Tuolumne 

 Kiver, and Ebbett's Pass." 



Range. — Pacific Coast in the higher mountains. 



Zone. — Transition mainly, rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Soda Springs, Nevada County, Jones 2448 ; 

 Slippery Ford, Eldorado County, 6,200 feet, Brainerd 212; head of 

 Tuolumne River, Brewer 1774 ; Silver Valley, Brewer 1969 ; near Lily 

 Lake, Tahoe, 6,600 feet. Smiley 397 ; Yosemite Creek to Porcupine 

 Flat, 7,500 feet. Hall and Babcock 3463; Buck Camp, Mariposa 

 County, 8,000 feet, Congdon, August 12, 1890. 



22. Carex tahoensis, sp. nov. 



Rhizoma caespitosum. Culmus 1.5-3 dm. altus subfirmus triqueter 

 scaber superne foliatus inferne. Folia culmo multo breviora 1 mm. 

 lata complicata rigidula pallida, vaginae inferiores hyalinae. Spiculae 

 3-4, ovatae gynaecandrae (masculina inferne), densiflorae sessiles col- 

 lectae. Squamae lanceolatae ovatae castaneosae, cum marginibus albo- 

 hyalinis, 5 mm. longae viridi-carinatae. Utriculi longiores (6 mm. 

 longi) erecti concavo-convexi brunnei nervosi, cum marginibus an- 

 gustis viridi-alatis et per dimidium superius dense ciliato-scabris, in 

 rostrum longum bidentatum sensim attenuati. Stigmata 2. 



(Plant densely caespitose. Culms 1.5-3 dm. high, rather firm and 

 somewhat triangular, roughened above, leafy at the base. Leaves light 

 green, shorter than the culm, rather rigid, 1 mm. broad and closely 

 folded along the midrib, their sheaths hyaline. Spikelets 3-4, ovate, 

 bisexual, male at base, densely flowered, sessile and approximate. 

 Scales 5 mm. long, lanceolate-ovate, castaneous, their margins broadly 

 hyaline and midnerves green. Perigynia 6 mm. long, exceeding their 

 scales, erect, concave-convex, brown in color and nerved on the inner 

 side above the constricted base, their narrow margins green and 

 winged, with the upper halves of the wings densely ciliate-scabrid 

 along the sides of the gradually attenuate bidentate beak. Stigmas 2.) 



The species here proposed as new has its nearest allies in C. Lid- 

 donii Boott and C. phaeocephala Piper : from the former it differs in 

 the merely bidentate beak, which in C. Liddonii is deeply cleft and 

 in the beak being gradually acuminate, not abruptly rostrate as in 

 Dr. Boott 's species. From C. phaeocephala, this species may be dis- 

 tinguished by the much longer beak of the perigjaiium and the oblong 

 ovarj', the latter in C. phaeocephala being obovate. 



Type collected July 19, 1913, on Mt. Tallac, west of Lake Tahoe, 

 at an elevation of about 9,300 feet in the Hudsonian life-zone, Smiley 

 239. 



