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105. C. barbaree Dewey. (Fig. 42). Cespitose with long horizontal stolons, 

 the culms 3-10 dm. high, phyllopodic, stout, sharply triangular, serrulate at least 

 in inflorescence; leaves 7-12, the sheaths brownish-puberulent, the middle more or 

 less filamentose, the blades light-green, thick, 

 rial or channeled, 3.5-9 mm. wide, serrulate, 

 the middle ones much reduced; staminate 

 spikes one or two, narrowly linear; pistillate 

 spikes 2-5, sessile or short-peduncled, oblong- 

 or linear-cylindric, 2.5-8 cm. long, 5-8 mm. 

 wide, the very many perigynia ascending; low- 

 est bract shorter than to exceeding inflor- 

 escence; scales narrowly ovate, hispid mucron- 

 ate, occasionally some merely acute, reddish- 

 purple with lighter center and margins; peri- 

 gynia narrowly to broadly oval, nearly sessile, 

 obscurely nerved on both faces, 3-4.5 mm. 

 long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, slightly serrulate above, 

 straw-color, at length brownish, puncticulate, 

 often granular, the beak 0.5 mm. long, sharply 

 bidentate and hispidulous between- teeth. 



Type Locality: Santa Barbara, Cali- 

 fornia (Parry). 



Southern Oregon, south through Cali- 

 fornia west of the Sierra Nevada (but in the 

 canons in the foothills), extending as far south 

 as San Bernardino. Erroneously recorded from 

 Utah. 



One of the most characteristic Cali- 

 fornian species over a large part of the state. 

 The species has usually been known as Carex 

 laciniata Boott, but that name is ante-dated 

 by Dewey's. The name Carex barbarae also 

 has been variously misapplied to several species 

 like Carex sitchensis Prescott and Carex Schot- 

 tii Dewey, but Dewey's specimens although 

 very young and poor plainly belong here. The 

 rough mucronate scales and the hispid pubes- 

 cence between the perigynia teeth are both 

 marked peculiarities of this species. 



Locs. : Santa Barbara, Parry; Russian River, 

 Sonoma Co., Bolander 3866; Mark West Creek, Bo- 

 lander; Arroyo Seco, Santa Lucia Mts., Brewer 683; 

 Monterey, Brewer 672, 6S2; Clear Lake, Lake Co., 

 Bolander 2609, 2629, 2630; Oakland, Brewer 1566 (in 

 part), Bolander 27. 156.", 1566/, 1567, 2506; San Antonio 

 River, Salinas Valley, Brewer 529; Oak Knoll, Los Angeles 

 Co., Braunton 799, 802; Berkeley Hills, Hall, Davy 4070; 

 Claremont Canon, Berkeley, Davy 4016; Blair Park, 

 Alameda Co., Davy; Soquel Creek, Santa Cruz Co., 

 Davy; Belmont, San Mateo Co., Davy 782; Waterman 

 Canon, San Bernardino Mts., Pariah 1053, 2142, 2143, 

 2185, 8020; Pleasanton, Lilienthol; Santa Clara, Pendle- 

 ton 399; Mule Creek, lone, Amador Co., Braunton 1093; 

 Amador Co., Hansen 641; Skaggs, Sonoma Co., Geis 

 566; Sebastopol, Sonoma Co.. Heller 5797; Monterey Co., 



Congdon; Los Angeles Co., Hasse 4093; Lake Merced, San Francisco Co., Elmer 295S, Bwleth; Stan- 

 ford University, Baker 886; Lower Sacramento, Wilkes (type of Carex Wilkesii OIney) ; Pasadena, 

 McClatchie; Pajaro Valley, Wood 543; Bolinas Bay, Bigelow; American Fork of Sacramento, Rich; 

 Tassajara Hot Spgs., Monterey Co., Elmer 3138; Glendale, Los Angeles Co., Hasse; Ukiah, S. A. 

 Barrett; Stanford University and Black Mt„ San Mateo Co., Dudley; Pescadero, San Carlos and Crystal 



Fig. 42. Carex bakbar.e Dewey. 



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

 perigynium, X 5. 



