76 THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 



Locs.: Lake Tahoe to Bear Valley, Kellogg; Mariposa Co., Congdon; American River and 

 Slippery Ford, El Dorado Co., Brainerd; Johnson Lake, Yosemite, Congdon; San Francisco, Bolander 

 2301 (in part): Moraine Lake, Tulare Co., Dudley 2211; Grant Park, Dudley 1213; Westons, Tulare 

 Co., Dudley 1303; Jacksons Lake, Siskivou Co., Dudley; Snowy Cascade, El Dorado Co., Brainerd 

 77; North Fork, Griffiths 4572; Three Rivers, Tulare Co., Dudley 2803; Giant Forest, Tulare Co., 

 Dudley 2989, 3005. 



Bolander 2301 from San Francisco may be a case of a misplaced label. Carex comosa Boott was 

 also distributed under the same number and from the same station. 



Refs.: Carex Kelloggii W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 240 (1880); Kuk. in Engler, 

 Pflzr. 420; 308 (1909). "C. decidua Boott" W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 241 (1880). "C. lenti- 

 cularis Michx." W. Boott, 1. c. 242, in part. C. acuta L. var. pallida Boott, 111. Car. 4: 166, pi. 554 

 (1867), type from Oregon, Lyall. "C. vulgaris var. juncella Fries" Olney in Bot. King 368 (1871). 

 "C. aquatilis Wahl." F. Kurtz in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 19: 417 (1894). C. vulgaris Fries var. lipocarpa 

 Holm, Am. Jour. Sci. (4) 17: 308 (1904), in part, tyDe not definitely designated. C. limnwa Holm, 

 Am. Jour. Sci. (4) 20: 301, f. 1-3 (1905), type from Crater Lake, Oregon, Coville 1456. C. Hindsii 

 C. B. Clarke var. brevigluma Kuk. in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 307 (1909), type from Lake Pend d' Oreille, 

 Idaho, Sandberg 933. C. lenticularis Michx. var. paullifructus Kuk., 1. c. 308, type from Palouse Creek, 

 Washington, Elmer 881. 



103. C. sitchensis Prescott. Densely cespitose from elongated rootstocks, 

 the culms 6-12 dm. high, stout, sharply triangular, strongly reddened at base, phyl- 

 lopodic, the sheaths smooth, not filamentose, the upper and lower leaves with well 

 developed blades, the middle ones shorter; blades flat or channeled at base, 2-9 

 mm. wide; staminate spikes 2-5, slender; pistillate spikes 3-5, strongly separate, on 

 long slender peduncles, linear-cylindric, 3-9 cm. long, 4.5-6 mm. wide, very many- 

 flowered; scales lanceolate, sharp-pointed, brownish with lighter center, the apex 

 often noticeably hyaline in age; perigynia ovate or oval, 3-3.5 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. 

 wide, broadest near middle, obscurely nerved, substipitate, puncticulate, greenish 

 straw-colored, not red-dotted, apiculate. 



Type Locality: Sitcha, Alaska. 



Near the coast from Prince William Sound, Alaska, to Santa Cruz Co., 

 California; apparently very local in California. 



Locs.: Crescent City, Del Norte Co., Dudley; Twelve-Mile House near San Jose, Bolander; 

 Santa Cruz, Wood 599; Clear Creek, Butte Co., H. E. Brown 91; Sissons, Jepson 55a. 



Reps.: Carex sitchensis Prescott, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. (6) 2: 169 (1832); Kuk. in 

 Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 348 (1909). "C. aquatilis Wahl." W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 241 (1880). 

 C. Howellii Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 45 (1889), type from mouth of Columbia River, Oregon, 

 Howell. C. dives Holm, Am. Jour. Sci. (4) 17: 312 (1904), type from Oregon, Henderson. C. pachystoma 

 Holm, Am. Jour. Sci. (4) 20: 302, f. 7-8 (1905), type from Crater Lake, Oregon, Applegate. dk Coville 

 1362. C. aquatilis Wahl. var. dives Kuk. and var. pachystoma Kuk. in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 311 (1909) . 



104. C. aquatilis Wahl. Rootstocks slender, sending forth long horizontal 

 stolons, the culms cespitose, 2-7 dm. high, slender, sharply triangular above, red- 

 dened at the base; leaf-blades 2-6 mm. wide; staminate spikes 1-2, slender; pistillate 

 spikes 2-4, sessile or short-peduncled, not aggregated, linear, 1.5-6 cm. long, 4-6 

 mm. wide; scales oblong-obovate to lanceolate, obtuse or acutish, blackish to red- 

 dish-brown, 1-nerved or with a lighter center; perigynia elliptic-obovoid, 2.5 mm. 

 long, 1.25 mm. wide, broadest below apex, nerveless but with a median ridge, sub- 

 stipitate, puncticulate, granular, red-dotted, minutely beaked. 



Type Locality: "Hab. intra ripas fluviorum per Lapponiam." 



Swampy grounds, Quebec to Alaska and south in the western mountains to 

 northern California and New Mexico; widely distributed in northern Eurasia. 

 Abundant in the western mountains east and north of California, but rare in Cali- 

 fornia, where known only from the northeastern portion. 



Loc: Moulton, Warner Mts., Griffiths & Hunter 474. 



Refs.: Carex aquatilis Wahl. in Vet. Akad. Nya Handl. Stockholm 24: 165 (1803). Not 

 "C. aquatilis Wahl." W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 241 (1880). C. stans Drejer Revis. Car. Bor. 

 40 (1841), type from Greenland, Wahl. C. variabilis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club 1: 18 (1889), type 

 from Colorado, Vasey 582. 



