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THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 



vein; perigynia flattened, ovoid, sessile, rounded at base and apex, 4 mm. long, 2 

 mm. wide, abruptly minutely beaked, the beak bidentulate; achene short-stipitate. 



Type Locality: "Found in the Arctic regions" but really from the Rocky 

 Mts. of British America. 



Mountains and meadows, Alaska to California, east to Montana. In Cali- 

 fornia it is confined to the higher Sierra Nevada where it is known from Tulare Co. 

 to Nevada Co. 



Locs.: Ebbetts Pass, Brewer 2076, 2084, 2086; Carson Pass, Brewer 2106; Pyramid Peak, 

 Brewer 2136; Lassen Peak, Brewer 2186; head of Tuolumne, Brewer 1773a; Cary Peak, Alpine Co., 

 Brewer 2126, 2127; Big Trees, Hillebrand 2319; Mt. Dana, Congdon; Minarets, Congdon; Lake Lucille, 

 Hall & Chandler 4656; Donner Lake, Nevada Co., Heller 7122; Lake Tahoe, McGregor 102 (in part); 

 Mt. Lyell, Hall & Babcoek 3582; Mt. Silliman, Dudley 1489; Black Peak, Dudley 2132; Kaweah Peaks, 

 Dudley 2448; Rockslide Lake, Dudley 2382, 2383; Alta Peak, Dudley 1532 (in part); Marble Canon, 

 Dudley 1278; Heather Meadow, Dudley 1667; Craggy Peak and Caribou Peak, Siskiyou Co., Dudley; 



Little Kern River, Dudley 2553; Sierra Nevada, Kellogg; 

 Donner Pass, Torrey 546; Little Kern River, Purpus 

 5238; Mt. Whitney, Copeland 47; Eagle Lake, Tulare Co., 

 Hall & Babcoek 5367; Bear Creek, Tulare Co., Dudley 

 2880; Giant Forest, Dudley 3003; Farewell Gap, Dudley; 

 upper Bear Creek, Tulare Co., Dudley 2890. 



Refs.: Carex spectabilis Dewey, Am. Jour. 

 Sci. 29: 248, pi. 10. f. 76 (1836). C. invisa Bailey, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 22: 82 (1886), type from Summit Camp, Cal., 

 Kellogg. "C. podocarpa R. Br." W. Boott, in S. Wats. 

 Bot. Cal. 2: 245 (1880). C. Tolmiei Boott var. invisa 

 Kiik., in Engler, Pflzr. 4*>: 412 (1909). 



89. C. Raynoldsii Dewey. (Fig. 36). 

 Rootstocks stout, stoloniferous, the culms 2-4 

 dm. high, stout, sharply angled, smooth or 

 nearly so, little or not at all fibrillose, purplish 

 tinged at base; leaf-blades 3-8 mm. wide, flat; 

 terminal spike staminate, about 1.5 cm. long, 

 4 mm. wide, the lateral pistillate spikes 2 or 3, 

 approximate or lowest separate, peduncled, 

 erect, oblong, 1-2 cm. long, 7-8 mm. wide, 

 closely 15-40-flowered; lowest bract about 

 equaling culm; scales blackish with light mid- 

 vein, nearly as wide as, but exceeded by the 

 perigynia; perigynia oblong-oval, round in 

 cross-section, 4.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, densely 

 puncticulate, prominently 2-keeled and slender- 

 ly nerved, greenish straw-colored, rounded and 

 substipitate at base, the very short beak 

 minutely bidentate; achenes broadly obovoid, 

 2.25 mm. long. 



Type Locality: "Pierre's Hole, Snake 

 River Valley, alt. 6000 feet" (Hayden). 



Mountain meadows and bogs, Alberta 

 and Colorado to Washington and California. 

 In California it occurs sparingly in the northern 



mountains but is mostly found in the Sierra Nevada, where it extends south to 



Tulare Co. 



Locs.: Lake Tenaya, Brewer 1690, Congdon, Hall & Babcoek 3645; Silver Valley, Brewer 1968; 

 Meisners Ranch, El Dorado Co., Brainerd 81; Mt. Dana, Bolander 5088; Mono Pass, Brewer 1793, 

 1803; Peregoy Meadow, Yosemite Park, Jepson 4340; Big Trees, Calaveras Co., Hillebrand 2323 (in 

 part); Summit, Placer Co., Heller 9854; Tobias Meadow, Tulare Co., Dudley 616; Sierra Nevada, 

 Kellogg; Medicine Lake, Siskiyou Co., Goldsmith 5a; Tuolumne Meadows, Jepson 3259. 



Refs.: Carex Raynoldsii Dewey, Am. Jour. Sci. (2) 32: 39 (1861); W. Boott in S. Wats. 

 Bot. Cal. 2: 245 (1880); Kiik., in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 395 (1909). C. Lyallii Boott, 111. Car. 4: 150, 

 pi. 483 (1867), type from east side of the Cascade Mts., lat. 49°, Lyall. 



Fig. 36. Carex Raynoldsii Dewey. 



a, inflorescence, X 1; 6, scale, X 7; c, 

 perigynium, X 7. 



