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84. C. ablata Bailey. Root- 

 stocks somewhat elongated, the 

 culms slender, smooth or nearly so, 

 2.5-6 dm. high, much exceeding 

 leaves, the latter 4-9 to a fertile 

 culm, the blades 3-4.5 mm. wide, 

 flat; spikes 3-7, the upper clustered 

 and sessile or nearly so, the lower 

 usually widely separate and on 

 slender exserted peduncles, the 

 terminal staminate or with a few 

 perigynia, the lateral pistillate or 

 staminate at apex, linear-oblong or 

 linear-cylindric, 8-20 mm. long, 4-7 

 mm. wide; bracts shorter than 

 inflorescence, long sheathing; scales 

 ovate, obtuse, strongly exceeded by 

 perigynia, reddish-black or brown- 

 ish-black with lighter center and 

 hyaline margins; perigynia lanceo- 

 late, greenish, compressed triangu- 

 lar, 3.5-4 mm. long, about 1.25 mm. 

 wide, obscurely nerved, slightly 

 ciliate-serrulate, rounded at base, 

 tapering into the minutely bidentate 

 beak scarcely 1 mm. long. 



Type Locality: Mount 

 Mark, Vancouver Island (Macoun) 

 is taken as the type. 



Mountain meadows and bogs, 

 Montana and Wyoming to British 

 Columbia and extreme northern 

 California. 



Loc: Shasta Forest, Siskiyou Co., 

 Eggleston 11668. 



Refs.: Carex ablata Bailey, Bot. 

 Gaz. 13: 82 (1888). "C. ablata Bailey in 

 herb.," Macoun, Cat. Canad. PI. 4: 139 

 (1888). " C. frigida All." Olney, Wats. Bot. 

 King 371 (1871). C. luzula-folia W. Boott 

 var. ablata Kiik., in Engler, Pflzr. 4: 20 558 

 (1909). C. owijheensis A. Nelson, Bot. 

 Gaz. 53: 219 (1912), type loc. Owyhee 

 Mts., Idaho, Macbride 442. 



85. C . luzulaef olia W. Boott . 

 (Fig. 34). Culms 6-10 dm. high; 

 leaves mostly clustered at the base, 

 the blades 5-15 mm. wide, mostly 

 1-3 dm. long, thick and leathery; 

 terminal spike more or less 

 peduncled, usually about 1 cm. long 

 and with 1-2 sessile staminate 

 spikes at its base; pistillate spikes 

 3-4, all or only the lower strongly 

 exsert-peduncled, widely separate, 



Fig. 34. Carex luzul.efolia W. Boott. 

 o, inflorescence, XI; 6, scale, X4;r perigynium, 



X4. 



