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THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 



Fig. 43. Cabex obnupta Bailey. 



a, inflorescence, X 2 h; b, scale, X 5; c, peri- 

 gynium, X 5. 



Coastal counties from Monterey 

 Bay, California, north to Vancouver and 

 British Columbia. 



Locs.: Lorin, Alameda Co., Davy; San 

 Francisco, Bolander 1566 (in part), 2302, 2529, 

 Congdon, Wilkes 1521, Brewer 1570; Lake Earle, 

 Del Norte Co., Davy; Olema, Marin Co., Davy 

 709; Humboldt Bay, Chandler 1122; Pt. Bonita, 

 Marin Co., Michener & Bioletti; Eureka, Dudley, 

 Tracy 1193, 2546, 3161; Humboldt Bay, Tracy 

 2459, 3701, 3702; Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., 

 Tracy 3898; Big River, Mendocino Co., McMur- 

 phy 433; Fort Point, Bolander 1566, 1570, 

 Congdon; Sebastopol, Sonoma Co., Congdon; Pes- 

 cadero, San Mateo Co., Dudley; Sherwood Valley, 

 Mendocino Co., Dudley; Trinidad, Humboldt 

 Co., Abrams 6083; Crescent City, Del Norte Co., 

 Dudley; Santa Cruz, Dudley, Thompson; Men- 

 docino, Pringle; Eel River, Kellogg & Harford 

 1077; Santa Lucia Mts., Plaskett 42; Tomales 

 Bay, Bigelow; Ft. Bragg, Mendocino Co., Mon- 

 net 692; Berkeley, Davy; Eel River, Humboldt 

 Co., Tracy 4696; Abbotts Lagoon, Pt. Reyes, 

 Jepson 1170; Sycamore Slough, Colusa Co., 

 Ferris 607. 



Refs.: Cabex obnupta Bailey, Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. (2) 3: 104 (1891). "C. aquatilis 

 Wahl." W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 241 

 (1880). "C. sitchensis Prescott" Boott in Hook. 

 Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 220, pi. 221 (1840); W. Boott in 

 S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 243 (1880). C. magnifica 

 Dewey, ex. Holm, Am. Jour. Sci. (4) 17: 316 

 (1904), type from Columbia River; Ktik., in 

 Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 365 (1909). "C. Schottii 

 Dewey" Kiik.,1 . c. 



XXX. Trachychl^n^; Drejer. Phyl- 

 lopodic. Culms very stout, leafy 

 below, the lower sheaths strongly 

 filamentose ventrally. Spikes 

 numerous, the upper 3-6 staminate, 

 elongated, the lower 3-6 pistillate 

 (or staminate at apex), linear- 

 cylindric, densely very many- 

 flowered, the lower at least long- 

 peduncled. Lowest bract about 

 equaling or exceeding the inflores- 

 cence, short-sheathing. Pistillate 

 scales mucronate or aristate. Peri- 

 gynia obovoid or oblong, glabrous, 

 roughened or hispidulous, mem- 

 branaceous, slightly inflated, api- 

 culate-beaked, the orifice emargi- 

 nate. Achene triangular, the sides 

 flat or slightly concave, continuous 

 with the indurated persistent style. 

 Stigmas 3. 



