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lighter center and hyaline apex, somewhat shorter than perigynia, falling early but 

 after perigynia; perigynia very broadly ovate or obovate or suborbicular, 2 mm. 

 long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, glaucous green, 3-5-ribbed ventrally, papillate roughened, 

 short-stipitate, the upper empty part inconspicuous, minutely and abruptly black 

 apiculate tipped. 



Type Locality: Summit Camp, California (Kellogg). 



Wet places, mostly around lakes, in the Sierra Nevada, known from Tulare 

 Co. to El Dorado Co. 



Locs.: Yosemite, Bolander 6198; Lake Tenaya, Congdon; Crescent Lake, Mariposa Co., 

 Congdon; Lake Mary, Mono Co., Congdon; Hockett Meadow, Tulare Co., Dudley 1006 (in part); 

 Kern Lake, Tulare Co., Dudley 2044; Little Lake, El Dorado Co., Brainerd 76; Strawberry Creek, 

 El Dorado Co., Brainerd 35; Truekee, Hitchcock 258; Stanislaus Forest, Alpine Co., Eggleston 9517; 

 Silver Lake, Amador Co., Brewer 2099; South Fork, San Joaquin River, Hall & Chandler 651; Harmon 

 Meadow, Tulare Co., Dudley 2819. 



Refs.: Carex paucicostata Mackenzie. C. interrupta Boeckl. var. impressa Bailev, Mem. 

 Torr. Club 1: 18 (1889). "Carex lenticularis Michx." W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 242 (1880) 

 in part. 



101. C. Hindsii C. B. Clarke. Cespitose with stout short ascending stolons, 

 the culms brownish at base, slender, sharply triangular, smooth or little roughened, 

 1-6 dm. high, phyllopodic; sheaths smooth, very thin and hyaline ventrally; blades 

 1.5-3 mm. wide, flat or channeled at the base; staminate spike solitary, long-peduncled; 

 pistillate spikes 4-6, linear or oblong-linear, 5-7 mm. wide, 1.5-4.5 cm. long, the 

 numerous perigynia appressed-ascending; lower bracts exceeding culms; scales 

 oblong, obtuse or acutish, blackish with lighter center and hya'ine apex, early 

 deciduous, much shorter than perigynia; perigynia ovate, 2.5-3.5 mm. long, 1.5-2 

 mm. wide, yellowish green, ribbed, papillate roughened, strongly stipitate, the upper 

 part empty, minutely black apiculate tipped. 



Type Locality: Columbia River (Hinds). 



Wet places along the coast from the Aleutian Islands to northwestern Cali- 

 fornia, where reported only from Del Norte Co. 



Loc. : Crescent City, Dudley. 



Refs.: Carex Hindsii C. B. Clarke, Kew. Bull. Misc. Inf. Add. Ser. 8: 70 (1908); Kiik. in 

 Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 307 (1909). C. decidua Boott, 111. Car. 1: 163 (1858), as to N. Am. plant. C. 

 vulgaris Fries var. lipocarpa Holm, Am. Jour. Sci. (4) 17: 308 (1904), in part, type not definitely 

 designated. 



102. C. Kelloggii W. Boott. Cespitose, with very short ascending stolons; 

 the culms 3-7 dm. high, light-brownish and somewhat fibrillose at base, phyllopodic, 

 slender, somewhat roughened; sheaths smooth, very thin and white hyaline ventrally; 

 leaf -blades light green, flat or somewhat channeled at base, 1.5-3 mm. wide; stam- 

 inate spike usually one, 12-36 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide; pistillate spikes 3-5, sessile 

 or nearly so, approximate or slightly separate, linear, 1.5-4 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, 

 often attenuate at base, the numerous perigynia appressed-ascending; scales obtuse 

 or acutish with broad light-colored center; perigynia 2.5 mm. long, 1.25 mm. wide, 

 pale green, slenderly nerved, densely granular, strongly stipitate, abruptly minutely 

 beaked, the beak dark colored, entire. 



Type Locality: Sierra Nevada at Alta and from Lake Tahoe to Bear Valley 

 (Kellogg, Lemmon); Wasatch Mts., Utah (M. E. Jones). 



Wet places, Idaho to Colorado, west to Alaska and California. In California 

 it is found in the northern mountains and along the Sierra Nevada to Tulare Co. 



