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Wet meadows from northern California to Washington and east to Idaho. 

 In California it is confined to the northern part of the Sierra Nevada, where it is 

 known as far south as Butte Co. 



Locs.: Morgan, Tehama Co., Hall & Babcock 4347; Sissons, Brainerd; Jonesville, Butte Co., 

 Hall 9783. 



Refs.: Carex oxycarpa Holm, Am. Jour. Sci. (4) 20: 303 (1905). C. eurycarpa Holm, var. 

 oxycarpa Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 339 (1909). C. egregia Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 42: 414 (1915), 

 type from Falcon Valley, Washington, Suksdorf 5181. 



XXIX. Cryptocarp^e Tuckerm. Stoloniferous. Culms aphyllopodic or phyllo- 

 podic. Terminal 1-2 spikes staminate. linear, the others pistillate, linear or 

 oblong, closely many or very many-flowered, the lower or all peduncled, and 

 erect or very often pendulous. Bracts sheathless, the upper at least biauriculate 

 at base. Scales 3-nerved, usually cuspidate or a r istate, but in some species obtuse. 

 Perigynia coriaceous or membranaceous, piano- or bi-convex or turgid, elliptic 

 to obovate, puncticulate, margined, abruptly minutely beaked or beakless, the 

 orifice entire or nearly so. Achenes lenticular, apiculate, constricted in the 

 middle. Style straight, slender, jointed with achene, at length deciduous. 

 Stigmas 2. 



111. C. Lyngbyei Hornem. Strongly long stoloniferous, the culms varying 

 from rather slender to very stout, 3-9 dm. high, the lowermost leaves (of first year's 

 growth) with very long blades, the lower 01 the se ond year's growth with shorter 

 blades than the upper; leaf-blades flat, 2-12 mm. wide; uppermost spike staminate, 

 long-peduncled; lateral spikes 2-6, the upper one or two often staminate or androgyn- 

 ous, the lower pistillate, drooping on slender, smooth peduncles, densely many- 

 flowered, linear or oblong, 2-8 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide; bracts leaf-like, exceeding 

 culms; perigynia oblong-oval, bi-convex, 2.5-3 mm. long, more or less nerved, straw- 

 colored, puncticulate, very minutely beaked. 



Type Locality: Faroe Islands, Europe. 



Pacific sea coast from northwestern California to the Aleutian Islands and 

 south on the Asiatic coast to Japan and Manchuria; also known from Greenland, 

 Iceland and northern Europe. In California known only from the coast of Hum- 

 boldt Co. 



Loc: Humboldt Bay, Tracy 3149, 4646. 



Refs.: Carex Lyngbyei Hornem. Fl. Dan. pi. 1888 (1827); Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 363 

 (1909). C. cryptocarpa C. A. Meyer, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. 1: 226, pi. 14 (1831), type from Un- 

 alascha and Kamtschatca. C. Scouleri Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 399 (1836), type from Observatory 

 Inlet, west shore of America. C. filipendula Drejer, Rev. Crit. Car. 46 (1841), type from Iceland. 

 C. romanzowiana Cham. ex. Steud. Synops. Cyper. 216 (1855), type from Unalaschka. Chamisso. 

 C. Macounii A. Bennett in Macoun. Cat. Canad. PI. 4: 147 (1888), type from Vancouver Isl., Macoun. 

 C. salina Wahl. var. robusta Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 13: 87 (1888), type from Vancouver Isl., Macoun. 

 C. qualicumensis Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 428 (1893), type from Vancouver Isl., Macoun. 



112. C. obnupta Bailey. (Fig. 43). With long stout stolons, the culms 

 5-15 dm. high, sharply triangular, roughened above; leaves 5-10, clustered 

 near the base, the blades 5-8 mm. wide, thick, much roughened above; staminate 

 spikes 2-3, linear; pistillate spikes 2-4, oblong to linear-cylindric, 3-10 cm. long, 

 4-8 mm. wide, many-flowered, the upper sessile or nearly so, the lower more or 

 less strongly peduncled; bracts exceeding culms; scales narrowly ovate, blackish, 

 sharp-pointed, concealing perigynia; perigynia coriaceous, 3-3.5 mm. long, 1.5-2 

 mm. wide, abruptly minutely beaked, the beak entire or nearly so. 



Type Locality: San Mateo Co., California (Kellogg). 



