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strongly stipitate, abruptly contracted into 

 the serrulate, hyaline-tippedbidcntate beak, 

 1 mm. long. 



Type Locality: Slippery Ford, El 

 Dorado Co., California (Brainerd 121). 



Sierra Nevada from Yosemite north 

 to Siskiyou Co.; also in southern Oregon. 



Locs.: Slippery Ford, El Dorado Co., Brain- 

 erd 121; Yosemite, Bolander 6196; 20 miles n. of 

 Bartles, Siskiyou Co., Goldsmith 10; Lassen Peak, 

 M. E. Jones; Sissons, Brown 370. 



Ref.: Carex Brainerdii Mackenzie, Bull. 

 Torr. Club 40: 534 (1913). 



67. C. brevipes W. Boott. In dense 

 clumps from stout matted rootstocks, the 

 culms from very short to 18 cm. high, slender, 

 roughened above; leaf-blades 1.5-2.5 mm. 

 wide, roughened towards apex; staminate 

 spike short-peduncled or sessile, 4-12 mm. 

 long, 2.5 mm. wide, several to many-flowered; 

 pistillate spikes 3-5, usually 10-20-flowered, 

 the upper 1-2 approximate, sessile to strongly 

 peduncled, the others basal, long-peduncled; 

 scales ovate, more or less strongly purplish- 

 tinged; perigynia with obscurely triangular 

 body, little longer than wide, stipitate, 

 abruptly beaked, the beak minutely serrulate. 



Type Locality: "Rocky Mts., Cali- 

 fornia" (Kellogg). 



From Washington south to California, 

 where found in the Sierra Nevada as far south 

 as Tulare Co., and very locally in the southern 

 mountains. 



Fig. 26. Carex Brain erdii Mackenzie. 



a, inflorescence, X 2; b, scale, X 8; c, peri- 



gynium, X 8. 



Locs.: Devils Basin, El Dorado Co., Brainerd; 

 Johnson Lake, Yosemite, Congdon; Mt. Silliman, 



Dudley 1490; Hockett Meadow, Tulare Co., Dudley 1038; Kaweah Peaks, Dudley 2446; Camp 

 Alta, Tulare Co., Dudley 991; Grant National Park, Dudley 1905; Tuolumne Meadows, Dudley; Lake 

 Tahoe to Bear Valley, Kellogg; "Rocky Mts." California, Kellogg; Sierra Nevada, Brannan & Kellogg; 

 Emigrant Gap, M. E. Jones 3307; Summit, Placer Co., Heller 9853; Cucamonga Peak, San Bernardino 

 Co., Johnston 1496; Tuolumne Meadows, Ware, 2721c; Soda Spgs., Tulare Co., Dudley. 



Refs.: Carex brevipes W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 246 (1880). C. globosa Boott var. 

 brevipes W. Boott, 1. c. 485. C. deflexa Hornem. var. Boottii Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1: 43 (1889), 

 same type. C. Rossii Boott var. brevipes Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 420; 452 (1909). 



68. C. Rossii Boott. Densely cespitose from stout rootstocks; culms wiry, 

 smooth or slightly roughened above, 5-25 cm. high; leaf-blades 1-2.5 mm. wide, 

 roughened toward apex; staminate spike sessile or nearly so, usually conspicuous, 

 3-10 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; pistillate spikes globose to short-oblong, 3-5 mm. long, 

 3-4 mm. wide, 2-12 flowered, the upper contiguous, the lower basal and long-pe- 

 duncled; scales ovate, sharp-pointed; perigynia 3-4.5 mm. long, 1.25 mm. wide, 

 nearly globose in cross section, abruptly beaked, the beak 0.75-1.5 mm. long, deeply 

 bidentate. 



Type Locality: Northwest Coast of North America (Douglas). Rocky 

 Mountains (Drummond). 



