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THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 



Fig. 45. 



Carex yosemitana 

 Bailey. 



a, inflorescence, X 1; 6, scale, 

 X 7; c, perigynium, X 7. 



spike linear, 12-25 (or 30) 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 (or 30) 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; perigynia 3-3.5 mm. long, 1.25-1.50 

 mm. wide, obovoid, or oblong-obovoid, obscurely nerved, 

 tapering at base, abruptly short-beaked, the beak 0.5 mm. 

 long, obliquely cut, at length bidentulate. 



Type Locality: Yosemite, California (Brewer 1636). 



Sierra Nevada from Tuolumne Co. to Tulare Co., and 

 in the San Jacinto Mts. in Riverside Co. 



Locs.: Big Tree Grove, 

 Bolander 6221; Yosemite, Brewer 

 1636, Congdon, Dudley; Little 

 Yosemite, Jepson 4395; Sawtooth 

 Peak, Tulare Co., Hall & Babcock 

 5687; Strawberry Creek, San Jac- 

 into Mts., Wilder 918; San Jacinto 

 Mts., Parish 1574, Reed; Mt. Buena 

 Vista, Mariposa Co., Congdon; Mt. 

 Warren Pass, Tuolumne Co., Cong- 

 don; Mt. Silliman, Dudley 1504; 

 Sawtooth, Dudley 1616, 1617; Ori- 

 ole Lake, Dudley; Kaweah region, 

 Dudley 1261; Alta Peak, Dudley 

 1533; Coyote Pass, Copeland 29; 

 Dunlap, Griffiths 4682. 



Refs.: Carex yosemitana 



Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1:8 



(1889) ; Parish, Bull. S. Cal. 



Acad. 4: 68 (1905); Kuk. 



in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 744 



(1909). C. Sartwelliana 



Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 



396 (1868), not C. Sartwellii 



Dewey 1842; W. Boott in 



S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 249 



(1880). C. Congdonii Bailey 



Bot. Gaz. 21: 6 (1896), type 



loc. Mt. Warren Pass, Tuo- 

 lumne Co., Cal., Congdon; 



Kuk. in Engler, Pflzr. 1. c. 



115. C. oregonensis 



Olney. (Fig. 46). Root- 

 stocks slender, woody, 

 creeping; culms 1.5-4 

 dm. high, rigid, smooth, 

 sharply angled, the 

 basal sheaths sparingly 

 reddish-purple ; leaves 

 clustered toward base, 

 the blades thick, and 

 rigid, glabrous, 3-5 mm. 

 wide, canaliculate, 

 mostly exceeding 

 culms ; terminal 2-3 

 spikes staminate, lin- 

 ear, 8-16 mm. long; 

 pistillate spikes 3-4, 

 1.5-4.5 cm. long, 4.5-6 

 mm. wide, approximate 



Fig. 46. Carex oregonensis . 

 Olney. 

 a, inflorescence, X 1; 6, scale, X 8; 

 c, perigynium, X 8. 



