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THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 



Grant Park, Dudley 1203; Medicine Lake, Siskiyou Co., Goldsmith 

 27; Lake Audrain, El Dorado Co., Brainerd 12; Truckee, Hitchcock 

 255, 259; Prattville, M. E. Jones; Kaweah Meadows, Pur pus 2097, 

 5132; Cahto, Mendocino Co., Bolander 4689; Nellie Lake, Fresno 

 Co., A. L. Grant 1083; Squaw Valley, Placer Co., L. S. Smith 567; 

 Goose Valley, Shasta Co., Baker 5d; Hetch Hetchy, Jepson 3476; 

 Tuolumne Soda Spgs., Brewer 1781; South Fork, San Joaquin 

 River, Hall & Chandler 625; Summit Camp, Kellogg; Sequoia Nat'l 

 Park, Geo. B. Grant 1986, 2026; Lake Tahoe, Geo. B. Grant; Giant 

 Forest, Tulare Co., Dudley 2991; Kings River Canon, Fresno Co., 

 Dudley 3192; Yosemite, Jepson 5666; Hetch Hetchy, Jepson 4633. 

 Reps.: Carbx vesicaeia L. Sp. PL 2: 979 (1753); W. Boott 

 in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 252 (1880), and including var. Boott and 

 var. i W. Boott. C. monile Tuck. var. pacifica Bailey, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. (2) 3: 105 (1891), type from Yosemite, Brewer 1654. C. monile 

 Tuck. var. colorata Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 39 (1889), type 

 from Grand Lake, Colorado, Vasey 5849. "C. trichocarpa Muhl. 

 var. imberbis Carey" and "C. monile Tuckerm." W. Boott in S. 

 Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 251 (1880). C. vesicaria L. var. pacifica Kiik. 

 and var. colorata Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 : 726 (1909). C. vesicaria 

 L. var. obtusisquamis Bailey, Carex Cat. 4 (1884) and in Bot. Gaz. 

 9:121 (1884), type from Yosemite, Brewer 1781. 



120. C. exsiccata Bailey. (Fig. 49). Rootstocks 

 stout, short-creeping, the culms stout, 3-10 dm. high, 

 acutely triangular and rough above, aphyllopodic, more 

 or less purplish tinged at base; leaf-blades 3-6 mm. 

 wide, the sheaths sparingly nodulose dorsally and 

 usually somewhat breaking and filamentose vent rally; 

 staminate spikes 2-4, 2-4.5 cm. long, narrow; pistillate 

 spikes 1-3, sessile or short-peduncled, more or less 

 strongly separate, erect, cylindric, 2-7 cm. long, 10-14 

 mm. wide, closely many-flowered; lower bracts exceed- 

 ing culm; scales lanceolate-ovate,' sharp-pointed, nar- 

 rower than and about 3^ (rarely %) length of peri- 

 gynia; perigynia ascending, 7-10 mm. long, lanceolate, 

 little inflated, olive green, 8-10 ribbed, tapering to the 

 beak, the beak 1.5-2 mm. long, smooth, the teeth 

 erect, 0.5 mm. long. 



Type Locality: Columbia River (Douglas, 

 Scouler). 



Wet places from southern Alaska to middle 

 California east to Montana. In California it is con- 

 fined to the Coast Ranges from San Mateo Co. north- 

 ward. 



Locs.: Eureka, Tracy 1194; Bald Mt., Humboldt Co., 

 Tracy 4613; Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 3397, 3899; Big Basin 

 and Wrights, Santa Clara Co., Dudley; Woodside, San Mateo Co., 

 Dudley; Ft. Bragg, Mathews 21; Tomales Bay, Bigelow. 



Refs.: Carex exsiccata Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 6 

 (1889). C. vesicaria L. var. major Boott in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 

 221 (1840), type from Columbia River, Douglas, Scouler; Kiik. in 

 Engler, Pflzr. 42 o : 726 (1909). C. vesicaria L. var. 0. Boott, 111. 

 Car. 4: 162 (1867). C. vesicaria L. var. lanceolata Olney, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 8: 407 (1872), type from Oregon, Hall 608. C. vesicaria L. 

 var. globosa Olney, 1. c. 480, type from Oregon, Hall 609. C. 

 exsiccata var. globosa Bailey and var. pungens Bailey, Mem. 

 Torr. Club 1: 7 (1889). C. vesicaria L. var. major Boott f. globosa 

 Kiik. and f. pungens Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 727 (1909). 

 An apparent hybrid with C. rostrata Stokes has been found in Humboldt Co. (Bald Mt., 

 Tracy 4534). 



Fig. 49. 



■c\ 



Carex exsiccata 

 Bailey. 



a, inflorescence, X 2 h\ b, scale 

 X 4; c, perigynium, X 4. 



