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granular, puncticulate, round tapering at apex, abruptly minutely beaked, the beak 

 0.25 mm. long with entire orifice. 



Type Locality: Santa Inez Mts., twenty miles northeast of Santa Barbara, 

 California, (Brewer 350). 



Coastal counties from Alameda Co. to San Diego Co., in the southern mount- 

 ains and in the Sierra Nevada as far north as Amador Co. Also extending eastward 

 into Arizona. 



Locs.: Santa Inez Mts., Brewer 350: San Fernando, Brewer 218; Bear Valley, San Bernardino 

 Mts., Abrams 2855, 2852, 1343, Parish 3278, 17S2, 157G; San Jacinto Mts., Hasse, Reed 2558, Hall 

 2338, 2483, C. M. Wilder 916a; San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3702 (in part), 5031; Vivian Creek, Mt. 

 San Gorgonio, Geo. B. Grant 6406; High Creek, Geo. B. Grant 6436; Mill Creek Falls, Parish 24S5; 

 Whitewater Basin, Wilder; Deep Creek, San Bernardino Mts., Geo. B. Grant; Santa Paula, Ventura 

 Co., Cobb 135; Santa Barbara, Bolander; Laguna, Schoenefeldt 3594; Oakland, Bolander 1566d, o, e, a, /> 

 (salt-marsh); Los Angeles, Bigelow; Santa Barbara, Parry, Elmer 3961; Yosemite, Bolander 6212 (in 

 part), Abrams 4625, Bioletti 4, Torrey; Amador Co., Hansen 636; Mariposa, Congdon; Stockton Creek, 

 Mariposa Co., Congdon; Clarks, Yosemite, Bolander 6206, 6208, 6212; Coyote Creek, Santa Clara 

 Co., Dudley 4156; Embarcadero Road, Santa Clara Co., Dudley; Stanford University, Scofield; Naci- 

 miento Creek, Gold Creek and Carmel River, Monterey Co., Dudley; Laguna, San Diego Co., 

 Schoenefeldt 3594; Ojai ranch, Peckham; Yosemite, Brewer 1648 (in part); Giant Forest, Tulare Co., 

 Dudley 2996, 2999; Kaweah River, Dudley. 



Refs.: Carex senta Boott, 111. Car. 4: 174 (1867); W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 242 

 (1880); Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 4: 106, pi. 20 (1905); Kuk. in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 333 (1909). C. 

 auriculata Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 19 (1889); type from Coloma, Cal., Andersson; Parish, Bull. S. 

 Cal. Acad. 4: 108 (1905). C. austromontana Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 4: 108, pi. 15 (1905), type from 

 San Bernardino Mts., Parish 2485. "C. Jamesii Torr." W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 243 (1880), 

 in small part. C. Bishallii C. B. Clarke, Kew Bull Misc. Inf. Add. Ser. 8: 70 (190S), type from Yosemite, 

 Brewer 1648. C. nudata W. Boott, f. firmior Kuk. in Engler, Pflzr. 4-'°: 337 (1909), type from Arizona 

 Palmer 546 and f. sessiliflora Kiik., 1. c, type from Amador Co., Cal., Hansen 636. " C. nudata W. Boott 

 Kuk., 1. c. in part. C. Jamesii Torr. var. austromontana Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 318 (1909). C. 

 Jamesii var. W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 243 (1880). "C. angustata Boott" W. Boott, 1. c. 242, 

 in part. 



108. C. nudata W. Boott. Extremely densely cespitose, the rootstocks 

 descending obliquely, the stolons slender, little developed, the culms slender, 3-8 

 dm. high, sharply triangular, somewhat roughened above, strongly dark purplish 

 at base; leaf-blades light green, flat with revolute margins, 2.5-3.5 mm. wide, very 

 smooth, except on margins above and toward apex, the basal sheaths filamentose, 

 rounded and hispidulous dorsally; staminate spike short-peduncled, 1.5-3 cm. long; 

 lateral spikes 3-5, sessile or short-peduncled, 1-4 cm. long, 6-7 mm. wide, the numerous 

 perigynia ascending; lowest bract shorter than culm, the upper ones very short, 

 conspicuously bi-auriculate; scales ovate, or oblong-ovate, obtuse or acutish, much 

 exceeded by perigynia, blackish with lighter midvein; perigynia lanceolate or ovate, 

 compressed biconvex, 3-4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, finely 6 9 nerved on both faces, 

 membranaceous-, greenish straw-color or purplish-black tinged, smooth or slightly 

 granular at apex, rounded and substipitate at base, the upper portion empty, 

 abruptly minutely beaked, the beak 0.25 mm. long, entire. 



Type Locality: "In the Coast Ranges from San Francisco Bav to Ukiah," 

 (Bolander 121, 2299, 3836, 4638, 6202). 



Rocky beds of streams in the northern counties extending south in the Coast 

 Ranges to Santa Clara Co. and in the Sierra Nevada to Calaveras Co.; also in 

 western Oregon. 



Locs.: Oakland, Bigelow; Mark West Creek, Sonoma Co., Bolander 3812; Oakland Slough, 

 Bolander 6202; Ukiah, Bolander 3836, 4638; Russian River, Sonoma Co., Bolander 3866; Marin Co., 

 Bolander 2299; Redwood Belt, Humboldt Co., Chandler 1235; Carlotta, Humboldt Co., Tracy 4654; 

 Stuart, Trinity Co., Yates 518; Alder Point, Humboldt Co., Tracy 1885; Little River, Humboldt Co., 

 Tracy 3220, 3221; Stanford University, Abrams 2433; Comptche, Mendocino Co., McMurphy 432; 

 Klamathon, Copeland 3541; Sulphur Creek, Sonoma Co., Geis 564; Adobe Canon, Sonoma Co., Bioletti; 

 High Valley Creek, Lake Co., Bowman 111; "California," Kellogg <fc Harford 1075; Stirling, Butte 



