78 THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 



Springs, San Mateo Co., Dudley; Lake Merced, San Francisco Co., Dudley; Glenwood, Eccles, Big 

 Basin and Santa Cruz, Dudley; Kings River, Dudley; Carmel-by-the-sea, A. Randall 442; Mt. Diablo, 

 Abrams 5723; Visalia, Abrams 5382; Carmel, Abrams 5217; Sissons, Jepson 57a; Santa Cruz, M. E. 

 Jones 2345; Sanger, Fresno Co., Hudson; North Fork, Griffiths 4138; Ukiah, McCowen; Cosumnes 

 River, Merriam; Sycamore Creek, Fresno Co., Merriam; Stanford University, Baker 8S6; Santa Bar- 

 bara, Hitchcock 112, Elmer 3961; Marysville, Wooton; Kern Canon, Heller 7773; Santa Cruz Mts., 

 Hitchcock 207; Petaluma, Piper 6466; Angel Isl., Schmitt; Jamacha, San Diego Co., Chandler 5262; 

 Pine Ridge Mt., Santa Clara Co., Abrams 6651; Sonoma, Kvhn; Berkeley Hills, Jepson 4172. 



Reps.: Carex Barbara Dew. Bot. Mex. Bound. 231 (1858). C. laciniata Boott in Benth. PI. 

 Hartweg341 (1857), name only; 111. Car. 4: 175, pi. 594 (1867), in part; type from banks of Sacramento, 

 Hartweg 2022; W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 243 (1880); Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 4: 84 (1905); 

 Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 366 (1909). C. Wilkesii Olney, Bot. Wilkes Exped. 2: 477, pi. 17 (1874), 

 type from banks of Sacramento, Wilkes. C. lacunarum Holm, Am. Jour. Sci. (4) 17: 303, f. 12-13 

 (1904), type from Sebastopol, Heller 5797. C. magnifiea Dewey var. lacunarum Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 

 420; 366 (1909). "C. nudata W. Boott var. anomala Bailey" Kiik. 1. c. 337, as to California specimens. 

 "C. Prescottiana Boott" Olney in Bot. King 369 (1871) in part. 



106. C. Schottii Dewey. Culms stout, aphyllopodic, in large clumps, 10-15 

 dm. high, sharply triangular and very rough above; leaf-blades flat with revolute 

 margins, 6-12 mm. wide, serrulate, the lower sheaths strongly yellowish-brown 

 tinged, sharply keeled and hispidulous dorsally, the ventral side very fragile, break- 

 ing and becoming filamentose; staminate spikes about 3, elongate linear, 8-14 cm. 

 long, 4 mm. wide; pistillate spikes (usually staminate above) mostly 3, sessile or 

 nearly so, more or less strongly separate, erect, elongate linear, 11-14 cm. long, 

 5-6 mm. wide, the perigynia appressed-ascending, very numerous, closely packed 

 in several ranks; lowest bract usually exceeding culm; scales narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute or obtusish, purplish-black with broad 3-ribbed lighter center, usually ex- 

 ceeding perigynia; perigynia plano-convex, membranaceous, obovate, 3 mm. long, 

 1.75 mm. wide, greenish straw-colored, very minutely granular, strongly several 

 nerved on both faces, round tapering and sessile at base, rounded at apex and 

 abruptly minutely beaked, the beak 0.25 mm. long, with subemarginate orifice. 



Type Locality: Santa Barbara (Parry). 



Southern California from Monterey Co. to San Diego Co. and eastward into 

 the San Bernardino Mts. below 2500 feet. 



Locs.: Santa Barbara, Parry; Pasadena, Geo. B. Grant 137, 137a, 3592; Oak Knoll, Los Angeles 

 Co., Geo. B. Grant 5347, Braunton 798; San Bernardino, Parish 6056, 59S1, 2145; Los Angeles Co., 

 Hasse, Davidson 2, Abrams 200; San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3279, 3276; Waterman Cation, Parish 

 2144; Orange Co., Geis 500; Santa Ana, Geis; Laguna, Schoenefeldt 3689; Castroville, Monterey Co., 

 Elmer 4386; "Southern California," Parry & Lemmon 397, Fremont 346; Pasadena, McClatchie. 



Reps.: Carex Schottii Dew. Bot. Mex. Bound. 231 (1858); W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 

 2: 244 (1880); not Kuk. in Engler, Pflzr. 420; 365 (1909). "C. Barbara Dewey" Parish, Bull. S. Cal. 

 Acad. 4: 108, pi. 14 (1905). 



One of the largest species of Carex and remarkable for its very long narrow pistillate spikes- 

 The original specimens are extremely young and fragmentary, but are unmistakable after one has 

 become acquainted with the species. 



107. C. senta Boott. Loosely cespitose and stoloniferous, the culms slender, 

 4-9 dm. high, sharply triangular and rough on the angles, biennial, brownish at 

 base; leaves 6-12, the middle sheaths sparingly hispidulous dorsally and filamentose 

 ventrally, the blades flat or slightly revolute, 3-5 mm. wide, serrulate above, the mid- 

 dle ones much reduced, the lower and upper 1-4 dm. long; terminal spike staminate, 

 peduncled, 3-4.5 cm. long, with 1-2 smaller ones at its base; pistillate spikes 1-3, sessile 

 or short-peduncled, 2.5-5 cm. long, 5-9 mm. wide, the very numerous perigynia 

 ascending; lower bract shorter than to exceeding inflorescence; scales oblong-ovate 

 or lanceolate, obtuse to acuminate, purplish-black with lighter center; perigynia 

 ovate, rounded and sessile at base, conspicuously several nerved on both faces, 

 green or straw-colored, often dark-tinged and frequently strongly red-dotted, 



