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the upper often equaling the staminate spikes, linear-oblong, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 7.5 

 mm. wide, the 20-50 perigynia appressed; scales lanceolate, sharp-pointed, glabrous, 

 purplish-black with conspicuous light mid-vein; perigynia 5-7.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. 

 wide, with oblong-ovate strongly flattened body, glabrous or with very few cilia 

 on the margins, strongly purplish-black tinged, loosely enveloping achene, rounded 

 at base, abruptly beaked, the beak slender, 1.5-2 mm. long, bidentate. 



Type Locality : Above Ebbetts Pass near lake (Brewer 2019). 



Sierra Nevada from Shasta Co. south to Tulare Co. 



Locs.: Carson Pass, Alpine Co., Brewer 2131; Woods Peak, Brewer 2131 (in part); 

 Pyramid Peak, El Dorado Co., Hall & Chandler 4747; Independence Lake, Nevada Co., Hall & 

 Babcock 4537; Summit Camp, Kellogg; Mt. Tallac, Abrams 4838, 4850; Kaweah Peaks, Dudley 

 2212; Lake Tahoe region, Abrams 4861; Kennedys Lake, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 479, 542; 

 Devils Basin, El Dorado Co., Brainerd 28; Donner Pass, Placer Co., Heller 7187; Sierra Nevada, 

 Bolander, Hillebrand 2312 (in part); Ebbetts Pass, Brewer 2019; Webber Lake, Leiberg 5261; Truckee, 

 Hitchcock 399; Hat Creek, Shasta Co., Eggleston 7472; upper Bear Creek, Tulare Co., Dudley 

 2893; Soda Canon near Big Arroyo, Jepson 1130. 



Reps.: Carex luzul.efolia W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 250 (1880), in greater part; 

 Kuk., in Engler, Pflzr. 4 2 °: 558 (1909). C. luzulazfolia var. strobilantha Holm, Am. Jour. Sci. 20: 305 f. 

 18 (1905), type from Donner Lake, California, Heller 7187. C. pseudo-japonica C. B. Clarke, Kew 

 Bull. Misc. Inf. add. ser. 8: 81 (1908), type from Donner Lake, California, Heller 7187. 



In the Botany of California this species is mixed with Carex fissuricola. It is said to 

 occur "in the Sierra Nevada, at high altitudes, from above Yosemite Vallev to Ebbetts Pass and 

 northward, Brewer n. 1701, 2019, 2131; Bolander n. 6210, 6219; Kellogg." Of the specimens cited, 

 Brewer 1701 and Bolander 6219 (Yosemite) are immature specimens of Carex fissuricola. Brewer 

 2019 and 2131 and the Kellogg specimens are mature specimens of the present species. Bolander 

 6210 is not represented in the W. Boott collection, but as represented in other herbaria it is Carex 

 fissuricola. Most of the description including that of the perigynia is taken from the mature 

 specimens, but the description of the scales is a mixture of both. W. Boott always cited specimens 

 in numerical order. Under the circumstances I am taking Brewer 2019 as the type of the species. 



86. C. fissuricola Mackenzie. Culms 5-8 dm. high; leaves mostly clustered 

 at the base, the blades 3-6 mm. wide, 7-14 cm. long; terminal spike sessile or short- 

 stalked, often slightly pistillate; lateral spikes 4-5, the upper contiguous and sessile 

 or short-peduncled, the lower separate and strongly peduncled; scales ovate, acute 

 to cuspidate, brown, with lighter midrib conspicuous to apex, sparsely hairy when 

 young; perigynia body narrowly ovate, much flattened, loosely enveloping the 

 achene, 5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, sparsely hairy when young, remotely ciliate- 

 serrulate on margins, contracted into a shallowly bidentate beak. 



Type Locality: South Fork of Humboldt, Elko Co., Nevada (Heller 9429). 



Mountain meadows western Nevada and the Sierra Nevada of California, 

 from Tulare Co. north to El Dorado Co. 



Locs.. Echo and Mrs. Watson's, El Dorado Co., Brainerd; Soda Spgs., Sierra Nevada, Brewer 

 1701; Yosemite, Bolander 6219; high Sierra Nevada, Bolander 6210; Chagoopa Creek Meadows, 

 Dudley 2269, 2273; Mt. Whitney, Dudley 2481, 2483; Sawtooth, Tulare Co., Dudley 1615; Farewell 

 Gap, Dudley 1006 (in part); Hockett Meadow, Tulare Co., Dudley 1008; Big Tree Grove, Mariposa 

 Co., Congdon; Emigrant Gap, Jones 2917; Mineral King, Coville & Funston 1426, 1437; upper Bear 

 Creek, Tulare Co., Dudley 2891. 



Refs.: Carex fissuricola Mackenzie, Muhl. 5: 53 (1909). C. luzulcefolia W. Boott in S. 

 Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 250 (1880) in part. C. ablata Bailey, var. luzuliformis Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 25: 272 

 (1898), type from California, Bolander 6210. C. luzulafolia W. Boott var. ablata Kuk. f. luzuloiformis 

 Kiik., in Engler, Pflzr. 42 : 558 (1909). 



XXVI. Anomaly Carey. Culms stout, leafy. Leaf-blades broad, flat, glabrous, 

 not septate-nodulose. Terminal spike staminate, linear. Lateral spikes pistil- 

 late, linear-cylindric, scattered, closely many-flowered in several rows. Bracts 

 leaflike, sheathless. Perigynia ascending or in age spreading, obovoid, small, 

 2.5-4 mm. long, olive green, nerved, tapering at the base, triangular, slightly 

 inflated, thin, abruptly beaked, the beak conic, lightly bidentate. Achenes 

 triangular, apiculate, more or less closely enveloped, the style short, straight, 

 slender, jointed with achene, at length deciduous. Stigmas 3. 



