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30. Carex vesicaria L., Sp. PL, p. 979. 1753. 

 Type locality. — European. 



Range. — North temperate zone. 



Zone. — Transition mainlj^ rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Summit, Dr. Kellogg, July 27, (1870?); 

 lower end of Donner Lake, Heller 6938 ; bog along Strawberry Creek, 

 Eldorado County, 5,900 feet, Brainerd 10, 14 ; marshy borders of Lake 

 Andrain, Eldorado County, 7,500 feet, Brainerd 12; Ostrander's 

 meadow above Yosemite, Bolander 6211 ; Lily Lake, Tahoe, 6,600 feet, 

 Smiley 331a; soda springs, head of the Tuolumne River, Brewer 

 1781 ; South Fork of the San Joaquin River, 7,600 feet, Hall and 

 Chandler 625. 



Some of the above specimens have been referred to the many 

 inconstant varieties of this polymorphous species; in view of what I 

 believe to be the fact — viz., that in any large series of specimens the 

 several named varieties merge inextricably — it has not seemed to me 

 desirable to attempt here their discrimination. 



31. Carex rostrata Stokes, in With. Bot. arr. Brit. Veg., ed. 2, 



p. 1059. 1787. 

 C. ampullacea Gooden., Linn. Trans., vol. 2, p. 207. 1794. 



Type locality. — "Bogs of Isla, and on Bentelkerny and Breadal- 

 bane, " England. 



Range. — Transcontinental in the north ; southward to California, 

 New Mexico, Illinois, Middle States and New England. 



Zone. — Transition mainly, but rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Truckee River, Brewer 2161 ; Summit, 

 Kellogg ; Lily Lake, Tahoe, 6,600 feet. Smiley 387 ; Lake of the Woods, 

 Tahoe, 8,200 feet. Smiley 49; peat bogs on Meisner's meadow, Eldo- 

 rado County, 7,600 feet, Brainerd 8 ; Angora Lake, Tahoe, 7,500 feet, 

 Hall and Chandler 4642; Westf all's meadows, Yosemite, Bolander 

 4968 ; Silver Valley, Brewer 1966 ; Kaweah meadows, in ponds at 

 9,300 feet, Purpus 5137. 



All of the above specimens appear to be referable to the var. 

 utricidata (Boott) Bailey. 



32. Carex yosemitana Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 1, p. 8. 



1889. 

 Type locality. — ''California, Yosemite Valley, alt. 6,000 feet." 

 Range. — Central and southern Sierra Nevada; also in southern 

 California. 



