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THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 



64. C. inops Bailey. (Fig. 25). Cespitose and strongly stoloniferous, the 

 culms 2-3.5 dm. high, very slender, roughened above, reddened and fibrillose at 

 base; leaves clustered toward base, the blades 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, very rough above; 

 staminate'spike 1.5-2.5 cm. long, sessile or short-peduncled, 

 the reddish or purplish-brown scales with conspicuous 

 white hyaline margins; pistillate spikes 1-3, approximate 

 or more or less separate, erect, sessile or short-peduncled, 

 oblong or short-oblong, 7-12 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, 

 with 4-10 ascending perigynia; lowest bract leaflet-like, 

 more or less reddish tinged at base; scales ovate, sharp- 

 pointed, chestnut or purplish-brown with conspicuous 

 white hyaline margins; perigynia 3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 

 nearly orbicular in cross-section, strongly stipitate, abrupt- 

 ly beaked, the beak 0.75-1.5 mm. long, deeply bidentate, 

 the teeth strongly hyaline in age. 



Type Locality: Mt. Hood, Oregon (Henderson). 



Dry soil, chiefly in the Cascade Mts. of Washington 

 and Oregon, extending south into extreme northern Cali- 

 fornia, where recently collected once. 



Loc: Pilgrim Creek, ne. of Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou Co., Gold- 

 smith 2. 



Refs.: Carex inops Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 126 (1886); 

 Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 : 454 (1909). C. verecunda Holm, Am. Jour. 

 Sci. (4) 16: 461 (1903), same type. (C. inops Kunze, Suppl. Riedgr. 

 131 is merely mentioned incidentally. I am therefore retaining Bailey's 

 name for the present species.) 



65. C. globosa Boott. Stoloniferous, the root- 

 stocks slender, elongate, the culms 15-35 cm. high, slender, 

 roughened above; leaf -blades 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, strongly 

 roughened; staminate spike short-peduncled, 1-2 cm. long, 

 many-flowered; pistillate spikes 2-3 (with additional basal 

 ones on long capillary peduncles), approximate, sessile or 

 short-peduncled, 5-10 mm. long, 4-8 mm. wide with 4-10 

 ascending perigynia; lower bract leaflet-like, shorter than 

 to exceeding inflorescence; perigynia 5 mm. long, the globose body 2.25 mm. wide, 

 abruptly narrowed to a prominent stipitate base and abruptly beaked, the beak 

 0.75-1.25 mm. long, strongly bidentate. 



Type Locality: California (Nuttall). 



Coastal counties of California from San Diego Co. northward to Sonoma 

 Co.; Santa Barbara Islands. 



Locs.: Santa Barbara, Braver 302, 303; Mt. Diablo, Brewer 11.50; Little Sur River, Monterey 

 Co., Davy 7317, 7366; Sonoma Co., Congdon 84; Oakland, Bolander 20, 2295, Brewer; Mt. Tamalpais, 

 Heller 5716; Santa Cruz Id., Brandegee; San Diego, Brandegee; Glenwood, Santa Cruz Co., Dudley; 

 Hollow Tree Camp, Santa Cruz Co., Dudley; Tassajara, Monterey Co., Dudley; Santa Lucia Mts., 

 Davy 7724; Redwoods, Marin Co., Bolander. 



Refs.: Carex globosa Boott, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1: 259 (1845); Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 4: 

 112 C19051. (7. umbellata Schk. var. globosa Kiik. in Engkr, Pflzr. 4 20 : 453 (1909). 



66. C. Brainerdii Mackenzie. (Fig. 26). Rootstocks slender, elongate, the 

 culms from very short to 15 cm. high, slender, very rough on the sharp angles; 

 leaf -blades 1.5-3 mm. wide, much roughened; staminate spike sessile or short- 

 peduncled, 5-8 (or 10) mm. long, few-flowered; pistillate spikes 4-6, 1-4-flowered, the 

 upper 2 or 3 approximate, sessile or short-peduncled, the others basal on erect 

 peduncles ; lower bract of upper spikes exceeding inflorescence, chestnut-tinged, more 

 or less strongly sheathing; perigynia 4.5 mm. long, the oval body 1.75 mm. wide, 



. Carex inops 



Bailey. 



o, inflorescence, X 1; b, 



scale, X 8; c, perigynium, 



X 8. 



