64 THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 



Type Locality: Mendocino City, California (Bolander 4701). 

 Along streams in the Coast Ranges of southwestern Oregon and north- 

 western California, where recorded only from Mendocino Co. and Humboldt Co. 



Locs.: Red Mt., Mendocino Co., Bolander 6477; Mendocino, Bolander 4701; Three Creeks, 

 Humboldt Co., Tracy 3343; "California." Kellogg & Harford 1082. 



Refs.: Carex mendocinensis Olney ex W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 249 (1880); 

 Kuk., in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 580 (1909). C. cinnamomea Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 396 (1868) (not 

 Boott, 1846), type from Mendocino Co., California, Bolander 6477. C. debiliformis Mackenzie, Bull. 

 Torr. Club 37: 244 (1910), new name for Carex cinnamomea Olney. 



XXV. Frigid.*: Fries. Culms phyllopodic, tufted, the leaves clustered near the 

 base. Spikes staminate, pistillate, androgynous or gynaecandrous. Bracts 

 green-sheathing, the blades developed or rudimentary. Scales dark-tinged, 

 usually with light midvein and margins. Perigynia appressed or ascending, flat 

 to flattened-triangular, not inflated, dark-tinged, beaked, the beak hyaline at 

 orifice, more or less bidentate. Achenes triangular, short apiculate, jointed with 

 the straight slender style. Stigmas 3. 



82. C. Lemmonii W. Boott. Rootstocks slender, more or less elongated, the 

 culms slender, 4-8 dm. high, smooth, exceeding leaves, fibrillose at base; leaves 

 mostly clustered near base, the blades flat, 1.75-4 mm. wide, erect or ascending; 

 staminate spike 6-25 mm. long, 2.5-4 mm. wide, sessile or short-peduncled; pistillate 

 spikes 2-4, linear-oblong, 0.5-2 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, 5-30-flowered, often stami- 

 nate at apex, the upper approximate, the lower separate and exsert-peduncled ; scales 

 ovate, acute or obtuse, reddish brown with lighter center and broad hyaline 

 margins; perigynia 3.5 mm. long or less, triangular, closely enveloping achene, 

 puncticulate, glabrous, varying from green and slightly purplish-black tinged to 

 purplish-black, obscurely nerved, tapering at base, abruptly beaked, the beak 1 mm. 

 long, sparingly ciliate-serrulate, bidentulate, slightly hyaline at mouth. 



Type Locality: Sierra Nevada, California (Lemmon). 



Sierra Nevada from Tehama Co. to Tulare Co., and in the San Bernardino 

 and San Jacinto mountains. 



Locs.: Sierra Nevada, Lemmon; Big Tree Meadows, Bolander 4995; Inspiration Rocks, 

 Yosemite, Bolander 4905; Matterhorn Canon, Yosemite, Jepson 4500; Westfalls Meadows, Sierra 

 Nevada, Bolander 6205 (in part); Pine Ridge, Fresno Co., Hall & Chandler 238 (in part); High Creek, 

 Mt. San Gorgonio, Geo. B. Grant 6405; Deep Creek, San Bernardino Co., Abrams 2050; Bear Valley. 

 San Bernardino Alts., Abrams 2816; Board Camp Creek, Tulare Co.. Dudley; Yosemite, Congdon 80; 

 Sequoia National Forest, Davidson 2131; Big Tree Grove, Mariposa Co., Congdon; Glen Alpine Spgs., 

 Lake Tahoe, Heed & Pendleton; Strawberry Creek, El Dorado Co., Brainerd 30; Lassen Forest, Tehama 

 Co., Eggleston 7302; North Creek, Griffiths 4557; Butterfly Valley, R. M. Austin 1033; Yosemite, 

 Hitchcock; Stanislaus Forest, Tuolumne 'Co., Eggleston 953.3; Eden Canon, Tulare Co., Dudley 2800; 

 Boulder Creek, Fresno Co., Dudley 3298. 



Refs.: Carex Lemmonii W. Boott, Bot. Gaz. 9: 93 (1884). "C. fulva Good. var. Hornschu- 

 chiana Boott" W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 250 (1880). "C. ablata Bailey" Parish, Bull. S. Cal. 

 Acad. 4: SO (1905). C. Abramsii Alackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 36: 482 (1909), type from San Bernardino 

 Co., Cal., Abrams 2816. "C. serratodens W. Boott" Kuk., in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 : 666 (1909), in part. 



83. C. luzulina Olney. Culms densely caspitose, 1.5-7.5 dm. high; leaf- 

 blades 3-8 mm. wide, stiff; spikes 4-8, the upper clustered, the lower widely sep- 

 arated, on long-exserted peduncles, the lateral pistillate, oblong, 6-8 mm. wide, the 

 lowest sometimes compound at base; scales reddish-brown, obtuse or acutish; 

 perigynium body compressed-triangular, closely enveloping achene, 3.75-5 mm. 

 long, not inflated or hispidulous, contracted into the short or in age conspicuous, 

 sparingly ciliate-serrulate shallowly bidentate beak. 



Type Locality: Mendocino City, California (Bolander 4740). 



Mountains in the western part of southern Oregon and northern California. 



Locs.: Mendocino City, Bolander 4740; Bald Alt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 4531, 4543; Fort 

 Bragg, Congdon; Santa Rosa Creek, Bigelow. 



Refs.: Carex luzulina Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 395 (1868); W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. 

 Cal. 2: 249 (1880); Kuk., in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 557 (1909). "C. cherokeensis Schw." W. Boott, 

 I. c. 248. C. albida Bailey, Alem. Torr. Club 1: 9 (1S89), type from Santa Rosa Creek, Cal., Thurber, 

 Bigelow. C. luzulaefolia W. Boott var. ablata Kuk., f. albida Kuk., in Engler, Pflzr. 420; 558 (1909). 



